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pubescence, and intermixed with more erect black pubescent hairs. 

 Membrane and veins uniformly fumate, scarcely paler bordering 

 apex of cuneus. 



Legs : Black, tibiae and tarsi pale yellowish, basal half of hind 

 tibiae becoming blackish, spines black but without spots at base, 

 tips of tarsi fuscous. Venter black, brownish pubescent, sides 

 bearing silvery scale-like pubescence. 



Holotype : Female, 18 Aug., 1920, Elkhorn Creek, Carlton County, Minn. 

 (H. H. Knight) ; Minn. Univ. collection. 



L. claricornis Knight, new species. 



Brownish black, antennae and tibiae pale ; rostrum extending to 

 middle of venter. 



Female: Length 3.1mm., width 1.47mm. Head: Width 

 .80 mm., vertex .36 mm. ; yellowish pubescent. Rostrum, length 

 1.56 mm., reaching upon base of ovipositor, brownish black like 

 the head. 



Antennae: Segment i, length .19mm., pale yellowish; ii, 

 .yy mm., slightly thickened from base toward apex, uniformly 

 yellowish, dusky pubescent ; segments in and iv missing. 



Pronotum: Length .54 mm., width at base 1.23 mm.; brownish 

 pubescent and intermixed on disk with closely appressed pale scale- 

 like pubescence, propleura bearing simple pubescent hairs without 

 any indication of scale-like pubescence. Scutellum uniformly 

 brownish black like the pronotum, bearing scale-like pubescence 

 intermixed with simple pubescent hairs. Sternum, pleura, and 

 ostiolar peritreme, uniformly dark brownish, pleura bearing fine 

 brownish pubescence only. 



Hemelytra : Embolar margins slightly arcuate ; uniformly 

 brownish black, brownish pubescent and intermixed with closely 

 appressed, pale scale-like hairs. Membrane uniformly pale brown- 

 ish, scarcely paler bordering apex of cuneus, veins brownish. 



Legs : Brownish black, tips of coxae and femora slightly paler ; 

 tibiae pale yellowish, spines black but without dark spot at base 

 of each; tarsi pale, apices fuscous. Venter dark brownish, 

 pubescence brownish. 



Holotype : Female, 29 May, Lakehurst, N. J. (Win. T. Davis) ; author's 

 collection. 



L. rubidus (Uhler). 



Uhler, Hemiptera Colo., 41, 1895. 



Male: Length 3.2 mm., width 1.5 mm.; blackish, hemelytra 

 reddish brown with fuscous, embolium and cuneusx strongly red- 

 dish ; membrane uniformly fuscous ; clothed with pale yellowish, 

 closely appressed, scale-like pubescence and intermixed with more 

 erect dusky, simple pubescent hairs ; femora f usco-brownish, 

 tinged with reddish ; tibiae brownish to reddish, beset with promi- 

 nent black spines. Antennae fuscous to ferruginous ; segment i, 

 length .16 mm. ; ii, .64 mm., in length not equal to width of head 



