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Antennae : Segment i, length .75 mm., greatest thickness 

 .069mm., pale and marked with black; ii, 2.16mm., brownish 

 black, clothed with fine short pubescence; iii, i.ii mm., black, 

 paler on apical one-third ; iv, .88 mm., black. 



Pronotum : Brownish black, disk with a few small paler spots, 

 slender margins and collar pale, coxal margin also pale. Scutel- 

 lum black, spot at basal angles and vitta on apex pale. 



Hemelytra : Width 2.08 mm. ; pale translucent, irregularly 

 marked with dark fuscous ; cuneus clear, apical half and inner 

 basal angle blackish ; membrane pale, veins and invading membrane 

 each side, brownish to fuscous. 



Legs: Brownish black, femora paler basally, mottled apically; 

 tibiae with four pale marks but not forming complete bands. 



Venter: Reddish brown to blackish, paler beneath and spotted 

 with reddish ; genital claspers distinctive. 



Female: Length 7 mm., width 2.6 mm. ; larger than the male but 

 very similar in coloration. Head : Width i .09 mm., vertex .43 mm. 

 Antennae : Segment i, length .86 mm. ; ii, 2.57 mm. ; iii, 1.24 mm. ; 

 iv, I mm. 



Holotype: Male, 4 July, 1919, White Plains, N. Y. (J. R. T. Bueno) ; 

 author's collection. Allotype: Female, 8 Aug., 1918, Ontario, Can. (H, S. 

 Parish). Paratype : Male, taken with type. 



Mr. Bueno collected the type on Aspen. 

 *E. necopinus var. discretus Knight, new variety. 



Female: Length 7 mm., width 2.44 mm.; pronotal disk uni- 

 formly brownish black, without paler maculae. Head: Width 

 1.05mm., vertex .50mm. Antennae: Segment i, length .94mm., 

 brownish black, paler maculae not distinct; ii, 2.72 mm., brownish 

 black, spots not apparent, clothed with short pale or dusky pubes- 

 cence ; iii, 1.22mm., brownish black, paler apically; iv, 1.05mm., 

 dark brownish black. 



Holotype: Female, 26 July, 1910, Wallingford, Conn. (D. J. Caffrey). 



Very likely this form may prove to be a distinct species. 

 Eustictus salicicola Knight, new species. 



Male: Length 6.9 mm. ; related to venatorius but differs in the 

 antennae, tibial pubescence, and in color pattern of the dorsum. 



Head : Width 1.19 mm., vertex .08 mm., height of eye .yy mm. ; 

 eyes prominent, projecting above vertex and below gula. 



Antennae : Segment i, length .81 mm., pale and marked with 

 black; ii, 2.31mm., dark fuscous, paler on basal one-sixth but 

 dark spots are visible, extreme apex paler; rather densely 

 covered with fine short pale pubescence, a few hairs slightly- 

 longer but in length not exceeding thickness of segment; iii, 

 1.05 mm., blackish, paler apically; iv, .91 mm., blackish. 



Pronotum : Median portion of disk black, lateral ^ margins 

 broadly pale except for dark punctures ; propleura brownish black, 

 lower margins pale. Scutellum black, basal angles paler; 



