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pale fuscous, veins and within ' larger areole, darker, paler 

 bordering inner margin of cuneus. 



New York. 

 N. amoenus var. scutellaris (Reuter). 



Acta Soc. Sci. Fenn., xxxvi, No. 2, 49, 1909. 



Dorsum piceous black, cuneus and small spot near base of 

 corium, pale translucent; scutellum yellow, mesoscutum black; 

 membrane pale, fuscous at base and on veins. 



New York. 

 N. palmeri (Reuter). 



Can. Ent, xl, 112, 1908. 



Length 5.7 mm., width 2.4 mm. ; pale yellowish with a brown 

 shellac-like gloss ; calli with a transverse mark, line along lateral 

 margin of pronotal disk, and usually a second one parallel to it, 

 line along outer margin of radius which widens apically and crosses 

 the corium to inner angle of cuneus, fuscous to black; in pale 

 specimens the black color showing only on the corium; sides of 

 pleura frequently black ; antennal segments iii and iv, and apex of 

 ii, fuscous to black. 



Food plant: Fraxinus americana, and probably other ash trees. 



New Haven, 28 Sept., 1905 (B. H. W.) ; Washington, 24 Tune, 1914 

 (Mrs. G. Vaillant). 



*Neoborus glaber Knight, new species. 



In coloration suggestive of canadensis but differs in the glabrous 

 surface of the dorsum. 



Male: Length 4.6 mm., width 1.9 mm. Head : Width 1.04 mm., 

 vertex .43 mm. ; yellowish, tylus, front each side of median line, 

 joining above and sometimes transverse line between, brownish 

 black. Rostrum, length 1.08 mm., reaching to middle of inter- 

 mediate coxae, yellowish, apex black. 



Antennae : Segment i, length .53 mm., brownish black ; ii, 

 1.6 mm., brownish to dark fuscous, cylindrical, nearly equal to 

 thickness of segment i, finely pale to dusky pubescent; iii, .51 mm., 

 slender, f usco-brownish ; iv, .38 mm., fusco-brownish. 



Pro no turn: Length .93 mm., width at base 1.57 mm.; glabrous, 

 shining, coarsely punctate, lateral margins sharply defined but not 

 prominently carinate ; yellowish testaceous, propleura except line 

 just below dorsal margin, calli, a large flaring ray behind each 

 callus and extending to subbasal margin, brownish black, leaving 

 median line more or less broadly and the slender basal margin 

 yellowish. Scutellum brownish black, basal angles yellowish, 

 coarsely punctate and transversely wrinkled ; a minute short pubes- 

 cent hair may be observed set in each coarse puncture ; mesoscutum 

 moderately exposed, dark brownish to blackish. Sternum and 

 pleura brownish black, ostiolar peritreme pale. 



Hemelytra: Embolar margin slightly sinuate, widest between 

 middle and cuneal fracture; brownish black to piceous, shining, 



