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females (21), taken with the types on Carya cordiformis. New York — 

 Female, 30 June, 1914, males and females (15), 18 June, 1915, Batavia; 

 males and females (8), 2^ June, 1920, Ithaca; male, 27 June, 1915, Portage- 

 ville (H. H. Knight). Mississippi — Male, 4 May, males and females (12), 

 27 May, 1915, Agricultural College (C. C. Greer), collected on pecan {Carya 

 illinoensts) . 



P. repletus Knight, new species. 



Suggestive of albatus variety vittis cutis but having the rostrum 

 distinctly shorter. 



Female: Length 3.9mm., width 1.4mm. Head: Width 

 .57 mm., vertex .36 mm. ; black, somewhat paler on vertex, pale 

 pubescent. Rostrum, length 1.35 mm., scarcely attaining hind 

 margins of middle coxae, yellowish brown, basal segment and apex 

 blackish. 



Antennae : Segment i, length .27 mm., black, narrow apex 

 yellowish; ii, 1.46mm., slender, slightly thicker toward apex, 

 yellowish, basal one-fourth blackish, finely pale pubescent; iii, 

 .67 mm., yellowish, fuscous at base ; iv, .2,7 mm., yellowish to 

 dusky. 



Pronotum: Length .60 mm., width at base 1.21mm.; black, 

 central area of disk, between calli and just before on anterior 

 margin, pale yellowish ; clothed only with simple slender, yellowish 

 pubescent hairs. Scutellum yellowish, median line black, meso- 

 scutum rather broadly exposed, blackish, yellowish pubescent. 

 Sternum and pleura black, ostiolar peritreme blackish but with a 

 yellow tinge. 



Hemelytra : Embolar margin only very slightly arcuate ; black, 

 margins of clavus and corium bordering claval suture, basal one- 

 third of corium, embolium, cuneus, anal ridge and extending along 

 apex of corium to join cuneus, yellowish translucent ; embolium 

 somewhat dusky bordering black area of corium ; moderately shin- 

 ing, yellowish pubescent. Membrane uniformly fuscous, a nar- 

 row clear spot bordering apex of cuneus, veins pale yellowish. 



Legs : pale yellowish, hind coxae dark fuscous on basal half ; 

 hind femora becoming brownish on apical half except apex, two 

 rows of black spots on anterior face, showing through the obscura- 

 tion ; anterior and middle femora showing only three or four 

 fuscous points ; tibiae yellowish, knees, spines and spots at base, 

 black, tarsi fuscous. Venter black, or brownish black, yellowish 

 pubescent. 



Holotype: Female, 25 June, 1914, Batavia, N. Y. (H. H. Knight); 

 author's collection. 



*P. repletus var. apicatus Knight, new variety. 



Similar in structure to the typical repletus but differing in certain 

 color aspects ; cuneus black, pale only at base ; black color of 

 corium spread to include inner apical angles, also apical half of 

 embolium darkened ; antennae and legs not darker than in the 

 typical species. 



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