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Fig. 8, (i) Nionia palmeri Van Duzee, — dorsal view. (2) Scaphoideus 

 auronitens Provancher, — head, lateral view. (3a) Xestocephalus pulicarius 

 Van Duzee, — head, dorsal view; (3b) same, lateral view. (4) Acucephalus 

 nervosus Schrank, — head, lateral view. (5) Empoa querci Fitch, — elytron. 

 (6) Eus cells parallelus Van Duzee, — elytron. All greatly enlarged. Draw- 

 ing by D. M. and F. M. DeLong. 



X. brunneus Van Duzee. 



Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci., viii, 62, 1907. 



A very minute brown species with few pale markings. Face, 

 vertex, pronotum and scutellum uniform pale brown unmarked, 

 elytra brownish hyaline, appearing darker over abdomen, marked 

 with two rather faint paler bands just back of clavus. Length 

 2 mm. 



Reported from Massachusetts and Rhode Island, and perhaps is 

 widely distributed throughout New England on Carex and small 

 sedges. 



