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General color, sooty black; pronotum narrowly flavous toward apex; 

 connexivum flavous edged with black above and below; grayish black 

 pilose beneath ; femora light yellow basally. 



Long., 2 mm. ; lat, .9 mm. at humeri. 



Type, female, Billy's Island, Okefenokee Swamp, Georgia, June, 1912, 

 collected by J. C. Bradley. 



Allotype, male, differs from female in having the genital segment 

 rounded and slightly prominent. Same locality and date. 



Long., 1.7 mm.; lat, .8 mm. at humeri. 



Apterous male, subparallel in form ; genital segment visible from above, 

 small, not very prominent; a glabrous indentation in the last abdominal 

 segment; connexivum not much reflexed; prothorax short with two more 

 or less obscure transverse sutures. Vestigial wings visible at posterior 

 edge of thorax as two minute milk-white pads. Entire insect brown pilose. 



Long., 1.6 mm. ; lat, .8 mm. at widest part. 



Morphoparatype, apterous male from same locality, same date. 



Apterous female, differs from male in form, which is obovate, and in the 

 shape of the genital segment, which is visible from above. 



Long., 1.8 mm.; lat, .9 mm., at widest part of abdomen. 



Paratype, same locality and date as type. 



Additional paratypes, four specimens of the forms. 



This velvety black species was secured in numbers by J. 

 Chester Bradley and so far is known only thence. 



In conclusion, it should be noted that not much stress is laid 

 on color characters, except those of the hemelytra, which are a 

 fairly reliable guide in ordinary specimens, but as dark ones 

 are frequently found, this character should not be considered 

 final. The two apparently stable characters are the size and the 

 antennae. Even here, care should be taken, since the compara- 

 tive length and thickness of the antennal joints one to the other 

 may frequently vary. For this reason they are not expressed 

 herein in definite lengths, but the proportion between the joints 

 of the same antenna remains. 



Prof. Herbert Osborn, of the Ohio State University, and Managing Editor 

 of the Annals of the Entomological Society of America, has issued his 

 new book. Agricultural Entomology, published by Lea & Febiger, Phila- 

 delphia and New York, price $2 net. 



While designed for students, farmers, fruit growers and gardeners, the 

 book can well be added to the working library of any entomologist or col- 

 lector in any order. The illustrations, 253 in number, are especially 

 notable. — Ed. 



