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It occurs in old pastures and meadows from Ontario to Maryland 

 and Ohio. 



Stratford, i July, 1908 (B. H. W.) (W. E. B.) ; 9 July. 1920 (B. H. W.). 

 O. cinnamomeus Provancher. 



Pet. Faune Ent. Can., iii, 223, 1889. 



Easily recognized by its larger size and uniformly bluish color 

 with a slender pale costa. I have taken it only on bogs where 

 huckleberries grow. 



Colebrook, 20 July, 1905 (W. E. B.). 



Cixius Latreille. 



The insects of this genus have much the aspect of Oliarus but 

 may be distinguished by their having the hind margin of the vertex 

 truncated or but feebly arcuated, not at all angularly emarginate. 

 The mesonotum seems always to be tricarinate. 



Key to Species. 



1. Front and clypeus black with pale carinae, the clypeus obviously as 



long as the front ; vertex nearly as long as broad miscellus 



Front black with pale carinae, the clypeus nearly always paler and 

 obviously shorter than the front; vertex transverse, consider- 

 ably broader than long 2 



2. Elytra tinged with fulvous or testaceous, unspotted except for 



the fuscous stigma; nervures dotted; outer fork of the first 

 sector and the inner sector forked about in line with the fork 



of the claval vein pini 



Elytra whitish-hyaline, more or less maculated; outer branch of 

 the first sector forked much nearer the base than the fork of the 

 inner sector 3 



3. Larger, 7 mm. ; plates of male transverse, less than one-half the 



length of the pygofers ; base of the elytra usually fuscous in 



the female basalis 



Smaller, 6 mm.; plates of the male rounded, almost attaining the 

 apex of the pygofers; base of the elytra of the female without^ 

 a fuscous band coloepium 



C. basalis Van Duzee. 



Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., hx, 489, 1908. 



This, our largest Cixius, resembles in size and marking Oliarus 

 quinquelineatus. In the female and sometimes in the male the base 

 of the elytra is infuscated to or beyond the apex of the scutellum. 

 In this species the anal tube of the male is produced far beyond the 

 plates and sides of the genital segment. It is distributed through- 

 out the United States and Canada. 



Portland, 8 Aug., 1913, 24 July, 1921 (B. H. W.) ; Litchfield, 22 July, 

 1920 (P. G.) ; East Haven, 21 July, New Haven, 17 July, Hamden, 20 July, 

 1920, Milford, 13 June, 1921, Cornwall, 18 July, 1921 (B. H. W.). 



C. miscellus Van Duzee. stigmatus Uhler. 



Bull. U. S. Geol. Geog. Surv. Terr., i, 352, 1876. 



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