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the tip of the clavus; cuneus dark reddish; sparsely clothed with rather 
long pale yellowish hairs; members evenly infuscated without pale marks. 
Legs: reddish brown, coxe and basal third of the femora pale to yel- 
lowish, tips of the tarsi fuscous. 
Venter: yellowish brown to reddish, paler at the base on the lower side, 
not so distinctly narrowed and flattened as in noctuans; genital claspers 
conspicuous and distinctive. 
Holotype: 3, July 12, 1917, Deming, New Mexico (H. H. Knight) ; Cor- 
nell University Collection. 
Paratypes: 18 63, taken with the types; ¢, July 13, Lordsburg, New 
Mexico; 7 ¢¢, July 20, 1917, Texas Pass, Arizona; 3, July 15, 1917, Bowie, 
Arizona; all collected at the tent trap light by the writer. 
Sericophanes transversus n. sp. 
Dark chestnut brown, shining, easily distinguished by the transverse 
white mark across the middle of the clavus and reaching upon the corium, 
also a smaller white spot bordering the cuneus. 
6. Length 3.7 mm., greatest width 1.14 mm. Mead: width across the 
eyes .85 mm., vertex .37 mm., length .43 mm., more globose than in tm- 
angularis or ocellatus; dark brawn, smooth and shining. Rostrum reach- 
ing slightly beyond the posterior margin of the hind coxe, dark brownish 
in color. 
Antenne: segment I, length .31 mm.; II, length 1.14 mm.; III, length 
.8o mm.; IV. length .57 mm.; fuscous brown, darker on the apical half. 
Pronotum: length .85 mm., width at base 1.14 mm., apex .43 mm.; dark 
chestnut brown, polished, apical half lighter colored; calli faintly discern- 
ible, disk more highly arched than in triangularis; scutellum strongly 
arched as in tviangularis, sternum dark amber to reddish brown. 
Hemelytra: greatest. width 1.17 mm., scarcely narrowed at the middle; 
dark chestnut brown to blackish, highly polished; a conspicuous trans- 
verse silvery white mark across the middle of the clavus and extending 
onto the corium as far as the cubitus, tip of the embolium and half way 
across the apex of the corium bordering the cuneus, pale white; sparsely 
clothed with fine long golden hairs; membrane evenly infuscated. 
Legs: dark fuscous brown, middle and posterior coxe and trochanters, 
pale. 
Venter: Dark chestnut brown, polished, clothed with moderately long 
fine golden pubescence; genital claspers prominent and distinctive of the 
species. 
Female: length 3.1 mm., brachypterous, very ant-like in form, dark chest- 
nut brown in color like the male, polished, head and thorax lighter colored 
than the abdomen. Head: nearly globose, eyes slightly smaller than in the 
male; restrum reaching slightly beyond the posterior margin of the hind 
coxe. 
