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Most of the nervures with short spines, which in some specimens 

 are obsolete. Lateral lobes of pronotum short, prominent, semi- 

 circular, having the same curve anteriorly as posteriorly; nar- 

 rower than the base of the hemelytra, with large, rather regular 

 cells; the nervures of the middle tinged with brown; a brown 

 spot exteriorly and sometimes a second spot at the posterior 

 margin ; the marginal spines long and slender. Processus divided 

 into cells as far as the tip; only the base of the lateral margin 

 elevated, the middle carina high, not so high as the pronotal 

 vesicle, gradually declining to the tip, the base arched, bearing 

 two large areoles surmounted by a series of smaller ones, the 

 upper edge spinous. Raised margin of the sternum whitish, the 

 metasternum circular, auriculate each side. Legs pale honey 

 yellow, embrowned at tip and on the tarsi. Hemelytra rather 

 quadrangular, with the basal angles very acute, very widely re- 

 moved from the pronotal lateral lobes, the basal margin distinctly 

 concave; lateral margins spinous until a little beyond the middle, 

 the tips widened, bluntly, broadly rounded; areoles large, next 

 to the apical series is a transverse row of three or four very large 

 ones, usually connected with another large one in front exteriorly ; 

 vesicular elevations small, with a high carina, spinous, bearing 

 posteriorly a brown spot; a brown spot exteriorly near the basal 

 angle, another submarginal near the middle, and a broad brown 

 band at tip which omits the subapical series of large areoles. 

 Length, 3 mm. Breadth at base of hemelytra, iy 2 mm." 



Remedies. This little pest being a sucking insect, can be con- 

 trolled only in two ways. Clean culture will probably prove the 

 most effective method of checking its depredations, since it would 

 mean the destruction of weeds and various plants on which the 

 insect could breed. There is little probability of the pest develop- 

 ing in large numbers if the vicinity of a chrysanthemum field is 

 kept clear of weeds. The pest may be severely checked, if not 

 nearly destroyed by thorough spraying with a whale oil soap 

 solution, using 1 pound to 9 gallons of water, according to Mr 

 Egbert Blauvelt. It is very probable that pyrethrum powder, or 

 better still, hellebore could be used wherever a limited number of 

 plants require treatment. 



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1878 TJhler, P. H. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. Proc. 19 : 415-16 (Original descrip- 

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1898 Howard, L. 0. U. S. Dep't Agrie. Div. Ent. Bui. 10, n. s. p.99 (Inju- 

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