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blackish, clothed with prominent pubescence ; ostiolar peritreme 

 pale. 



Hemelytra : Embolar margins nearly straight but curved at 

 each end ; reddish brown translucent, darker on clavus bordering 

 scutellum and commissure ; rather coarsely and closely punctate, 

 shining, clothed with prominent erect yellowish pubescence ; cuneus 

 reddish brown translucent, scarcely paler at base. Membrane and 

 veins fusco-brownish, a small pale spot bordering apex of cuneus. 



Legs : Yellowish, apical half of hind femora, somewhat on 

 apex of middle pair, base of tibiae and somewhat on middle of 

 hind pair, blackish ; apices of tarsi fuscous. Venter blackish, 

 ventral surface except on genital segment, yellowish, pale 

 pubescent. 



Female: Length 4.9 mm., width 2 mm. ; larger and more robust 

 than the male but very similar in coloration; pronotal disk more 

 broadly yellowish, but not so the cuneus and scutellum ; antennal 

 segment ii, length 1.2 mm., more slender than in the male, gradu- 

 ally thickened from base toward apex but not attaining thickness 

 of segment i, black, pale pubescent. 



Food plant : Fraxinus americana. 



Holotype: Male, 16 June, 1916, Ithaca, N. Y. (H. H. Knight) ; author's 

 collection. Allotype : same data as type. Paratypes : New York — Males 

 (3), 31 May, males and females (5), 7 June, male, 13 June, male, 14 June, 

 1914, male and female, 14 June, females (2), 16 June, 1916, females (4), 

 25 June, females (8), 2y Jtme, 1920, Ithaca; females (2), 13 June, female, 

 25 June, 1915, Batavia; females (2), 22 June, 1916, Portageville ; male 

 and female, 16 June, 1915, Wyoming Cormty (H. H. Knight). Males and 

 females (26), 3 June, 1918, Ithaca (H. H. Knight). 



N. canadensis (Van Duzee). 



Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci., x, 486, 1912. 



Male: Length 4.7 mm., width 2 mm.; yellowish testaceous, 

 clavus, apical area of corium, two subapical bands on hind femora, 

 and calli dark brownish black ; pronotal disk each side of median 

 line, obscure brownish to fuscous ; base of scutellum at middle 

 brownish, the brown color somewhat notched by paler on median 

 line; dorsum coarsely and rather closely punctate, clothed with 

 erect yellowish pubescence. 



Head: Width 1.08mm., vertex .41mm. Antennae: Segment 

 i, length .48mm., black; ii, 1.46mm., fusco-brownish, more nearly 

 black at base, dusky pubescent, cylindrical, constricted at base, 

 nearly attaining the thickness of segment i; iii, .49mm., fuscous; 

 iv, .34 mm., fuscous. 



Female: Length 5.3 mm., width 2.4 mm. ; more robust than the 

 male, the dark color more brownish than blackish. 



Food plant : Fraxinus americana. 



Allotype: Male, 2 Aug., 191 5, Batavia, N. Y. (H. H. Knight) ; author's 

 collection. Originally described from two females collected at Ottawa, 

 Ontario. 



New York, Canada. 



