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coarsely and rather closely punctate, glabrous or with only a minute 

 pubescent hair set in pit of coarse punctures; base of corium 

 and embolium, and extending for a space along radius, yellowish 

 testaceous ; cuneus yellowish translucent, apical half and extending 

 along inner margin to basal angle, f usco-blackish. Membrane and 

 veins uniformly fuscous, a small pale spot bordering apex of 

 cuneus. 



Legs : Pale to yellowish, femora with two subapical brownish 

 bands, obsolete on anterior pair ; tibiae with brownish streak on 

 knee ; tarsi fuscous. Venter yellowish, two subdorsal lateral lines 

 dark brownish, genital segment brownish; finely pale pubescent, 

 more prominent on genital segment. 



Female: Length 4.8 mm., width 2.2 mm. ; more robust than the 

 male and usually more broadly pale ; basal half of corium and 

 more than basal half of cuneus, yellowish; antennal segment ii, 

 length 1.2 mm., slender at base, gradually thickened apically but 

 not attaining thickness of segment i. 



Holotype: Male, 24 June, 1915, Batavia, N. Y. (H. H. Knight) ; author's 

 collection. Allotype: 27 June, 1920, Ithaca, N. Y. (H. H. Knight) ; author's 

 collection. Paratypes : Connecticut — Female, 22 June, 1920, Orange 

 (M. P. Zappe). Michigan — Female, 28 June, 1920, Washtenaw County 

 (R. F. Hussey). New Hampshire — Female, 18 June, 1912, Bretton Woods 

 (C. W. Johnson). New York— Female, 7 June, 1914, Ithaca (H. H. 

 Knight)". Females (2), 3 June, 1918, Ithaca (H. H. Knight). North 

 Dakota— Female, 11 July, 1922, Fargo (R. L. Webster). Ohio— Male, 18 

 June, 1917, Tiffin (C. J. Drake). South Dakota— Male, 1 June, 1921, 

 Brookings (H. C. Severin). Ontario— Males (2), 11 June, 1920, Ottawa 

 (J. McDunnough). 

 Neoborus rufusculus Knight, new species. 



Male: Length 4.6 mm., width 1.86 mm. Head: Width 

 1.07 mm., vertex .36 mm. ; vertex narrower and carina more promi- 

 nently developed than in canadensis; yellowish, tylus, median line 

 of front and joining arc above, and juga except sutural margins, 

 blackish. Rostrum, length 1.28 mm., only attaining middle of 

 intermediate coxae, yellowish, apex black. 



Antennae: Segment i, length 48mm., black; ii, 1.59mm., 

 cylindrical, constricted just before base, nearly as thick as segment 

 i, pale pubescent, f usco-blackish ; iii, .51 mm., fuscous ; iv, 34 mm., 

 fuscous. 



Pronotum: Length .94 mm., width at base 1.69 mm.; coarsely 

 and rather closely punctate, shining, clothed with erect pale yellow- 

 ish pubescence ; brownish black, collar, median line of disk but 

 narrowed near basal margin, spot behind outer angle of each callus, 

 and slender basal margin, yellowish testaceous; carinate lateral 

 margins of disk only moderately distinct, slightly more sulcate 

 than in canadensis. Scutellum rather coarsely punctate, clothed 

 with erect yellowish pubescence ; brownish black, median line and 

 basal angles paler ; mesoscutum brownish, with prominent pubes- 

 cence. Sternum brownish black, median line yellowish, pleura 



