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saratogensis in an indistinct median light stripe across vertex and 

 pronotum and obscure oblique light bands on the elytra; general 

 form slightly smaller, the vertex shorter, more broadly rounded 

 before, and the front more inflated. Length 8.5 mm. ; width 

 3.5 mm. 



Vertex, length on middle scarcely greater than at eye, disc 

 depressed somewhat lateral to weak median carina, anterior margin 

 sharp to tylus ; tylus, disc slightly elevated, broadly, obtusely 

 rounded before; front, disc strongly convex, moderately inflated, 

 forming a large acute angle with vertex ; pronotum, disc flattened, 

 strongly depressed before median line, slightly elevated posteriorly, 

 carina weak except across depressed area, lateral margins parallel ; 

 elytra moderately long, costal margins reflexed anteriorly, thence 

 narrowing regularly to acutely angulate apex. 



Genitalia: Female, pygofers broadly convex, length one-third 

 greater than basal width, exceeded by ovipositor, which does not 

 reach apex of elytra, as in saratogensis. Male, last ventral 

 segment twice length of that preceding, one-half longer than basal 

 width, narrowing apically, disc convex; plates stout, forcep-like, 

 outer margins rounding, inner margins obliquely divergent to black 

 tips. 



Color : Varying tawny-brown ; vertex darker on tylus ; anterior 

 half of pronotum and disc of scutellum lighter ; traces of a median 

 light stripe from anterior margin of tylus across vertex and pro- 

 notum, traces of oblique bands from scutellum and claval apex 

 toward costal margin; in general quite closely approximating an 

 obscurely marked specimen of saratogensis from which it can be 

 separated only by reference to specific structural characters, 

 particularly the shape of the male plates. 



Distribution : It has been reported from New York and Ontario 

 (Can.) (Ball), and from North Carolina (Metcalf). 



Lepyronia Amyot and Serville. 



Vertex, disc weakly convex, strongly sloping, length about equal 

 to width between eyes, anterior margin rounding-rectangulate, 

 apex produced ; tylus large, length equal to width ; ocelli about 

 equidistant from tylus and pronotum, also about equidistant from 

 eyes and each other; front broad, moderately inflated, acutely 

 angled with vertex and slightly incurved before it, coarsely ribbed 

 lateral to median line; rostrum two- jointed, reaching middle 

 coxae ; pronotum, disc weakly convex, sloping, anterior margin 

 slightly rounded, variably depressed behind margin by transverse 

 row of impressions, lateral margins divergent, carinate, length 

 about equal to distance between ocelli, posterior margin deeply, 

 roundingly emarginate ; elytra coriaceous, broadly convex, costal 

 margins expanded to middle, thence rounding regularly to acutely 

 angulate apex; wings, with the third sector from the marginal 



