224 CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY. [Bull. 



Color: Foggy-gray varying to light-brown; spot on margin 

 before apex and a V, usually indistinct, on center of each elytron, 

 formed (as in quadrangularis) by the union of an oblique band 

 from the scutellum to a point beyond middle of costa with another 

 from the point of the clavus, fuscous. 



Distribution: Specimens have been examined from Wisconsin, 

 Nebraska, Iowa, and South Dakota. 

 L. angulifera Uhler. (Fig. 20, 42-45.) 



Lepyronia angulifera Uhler. List Hem. West Miss. River, Bull U. S. 

 Geol. Geog. Surv. Terr., v, 348, 1876. 



This species is distinguished readily from the two preceding by 

 its small size, rather narrow form and almost uniform testaceous 

 coloring. Length 4.5-5.5 mm. ; width 2.5 mm. 



Vertex, length about equal to that of pronotum, one median and 

 two lateral spots before posterior margin, and area at suture with 

 tylus depressed, margins between eyes and tylus somewhat 

 reflexed; tylus indistinct, parallel margined, length one-half that 

 of vertex; ocelli equidistant from tylus and pronotum, also equi- 

 distant from eyes and each other ; pronotum, length one-half 

 width ; elytra, length equal to width across costal margins, disc of 

 corium inflated. 



Genitalia : Female py gofers, length equal to width, outer margins 

 rounded, exceeded by ovipositor one-third their length. Male 

 plates broad at base, convex, shining brown, length twice width at 

 middle, inner margins attingent, outer margins obliquely cut off 

 at end of basal third, thence rounded to blunt apex. 



Color : Deep testaceous ; the indistinct transverse band often 

 reduced to a spot on middle of costal margins ; elytra beyond 

 clavus grayish to subhyaline ; iridescent from the pubescence. 



Distribution: Specimens have been examined from North 

 Carolina. It has been reported from Florida (Ball), and from 

 Maryland and New Jersey (Uhler). 



Philaenus Stal. 



Vertex, disc slightly convex, sloping in line with pronotum, 

 longer on middle than against eye, greater than one-half length 

 of pronotum, anterior margin obtusely or slightly acutely angulate, 

 between eyes and tylus deeply sulcate and somewhat reflexed; 

 tylus deeply inserted, anterior margin rounding, lateral margins 

 slightly elevated, depressions lateral to weak median carina ; ocelli 

 placed close to posterior margin of vertex ; front broad, acutely 

 angled with vertex, inflation a slight curve, disc flattened, laterally 

 coarsely ribbed with brown; rostrum short and stout, composed 

 of two equal segments, not exceeding middle coxae; pronotum, 

 disc weakly convex, sloping, with or without a weak median 

 carina, anterior margin rounding angulate, lateral margins short, 

 parallel, equal to or less than distance between ocelli, weakly cari- 



