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darker; readily distinguished by the dark conspurcate mem- 

 brane, antennal segments II and III banded at the middle with 

 pale; dorsum thickly clothed with black deciduous scale-like 

 hairs intermixed with small patches of white tomentum. Head: 

 width 1.06 mm., vertex .34 mm., infuscated similarly to exi- 

 mius; rostrum' (length 2.6 mm.) attaining the base of the 

 genital segment. Antennce: 1, length i .2 mm., black, irregularly 

 irrorate with white, beset with from 14 to 16 pale setae ; II, 2.5 

 mm., black, annulated at base with pale, a second band begin- 

 ning at middle and covering a space of .3 mm. on base of apical 

 half ; III, 1.48 mm., pale at base and again at middle ; IV, i.ii 

 mm., black. Pronotuni: length 1.54 mm., width at base 1.7 

 mm. ; form' and coloration very similar to eximiiis, but differs 

 by the presence of black scale-like hairs ; scutellum thickly 

 covered with white tomentumi. Hemelytra: more uniformly 

 darkened than in eximius, a pale triangular spot at tip of 

 corium bordering the cuneus; thickly clothed with black scale- 

 like hairs intermixed with small patches of white tomentum. 

 Membrane thickly conspurcate with dark fuscous, brachium 

 pale at apex of larger areole, conspurcate spots more sparsely 

 placed near apex of the cells. Legs: marked very similar to 

 eximius, pale band near apex of hind femora more or less 

 interrupted on the under side. Venter: dark fuscous to black- 

 ish, more or less pale on under side at base ; genital claspers 

 and the long tubercle above base of the left clasper, distinctive 

 of the species (pi. i, fig. 16). 



5. Very similar to the male in size and coloration. 



Holotype: $ Aug. 17, Batavia, New York (H. H. Knight) ; 

 author's collection. Allotype: same data as the type. Paraiypes: 

 4 $ topotypic. 3 c^ July 30, $ Aug 3, ^ Aug. 12, ^ Aug. 18, 

 Batavia, N. Y. ; ? Sept. 8, Ithaca, N. Y. (H. H. Knight). <^ 

 June 20, Washington, D. C. (O. Heidemann). 5 Aug. 21, L. Is., 

 N. Y. (Chris. E. Olsen). ? Aug. 3, Wallingford, Ct. (D. J. 

 Caffery). ? Sept. 12, Hartford, Ct. (W. E. Britton). ^ Aug. 

 9, Boston; (^ Aug. 24, Beach Bluff, Mass. (H. M. Parshley). 

 ^ July 25, Mercer Co., Ohio ; <^ July 19, Ann Arbor, Mich. (R. 

 F. Hussey). $ Aug. 13, St. Anthony Park, Minn. (H. H. 

 Knight). I (^, I 5 Aug. 6, 2 <^ July 11, Trenton, Ontario, Can. 

 (Evans). $ July 4, White Plains, N. Y. (Torre-Bueno). 



This is a predaceous, bark-inhabiting species which the writer 

 took on the boles of Linden (Tilia), Pear (Pyrus), and Maple 

 (Acer). 



