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yellowish hairs. Rostrum, length 2.8 mm., reaching to seventh 

 ventral segment, yellowish, blackish apically. 



Antennae: Segment i, length 1.17mm., pale to yellowish, the 

 slightly enlarged apex and two spots on inner or anterior aspect, 

 reddish to brownish, pubescence and spines yellowish brown; ii, 

 2.37mm., rather uniformly yellowish brown; hi, yellowish brown 

 (broken). 



Pronotum : Length .97 mm., width at base 1.69 mm. ; pale testa- 

 ceous to brownish with dusky, more brownish laterally on disk; 

 mark each side on collar and extending to margin of callus, and 

 rather broad spot behind inner half of callus, orange; propleura 

 pale, an orange ray across lower half of coxal cleft and extending 

 to near posterior margin; xyphus and lower half of collar pale; 

 disk clothed with rather prominent yellowish to dusky hairs and 

 interspersed with sericeous pale to golden pubescence. Scutellum 

 pale, base with an orange colored vitta each side of median line 

 and frequently extending to join with orange mark at each side of 

 apical half. 



Hemelytra : Embolar margins slightly arcuate ; pale testaceous 

 to yellowish brown, middle of endocorium and outer half of clavus 

 fusco-brownish, usually invaded by pale irrorations, a moderately 

 large pale area at apex of mesocorium ; embolium pale, irregularly 

 marked with reddish orange ; cuneus yellowish but hypodermis 

 largely filled with coagulated reddish flecks which also extend along 

 corio-membranal margin ; clothed with golden yellowish pubescent 

 hairs, intermixed with sericeous golden pubescence and spots of 

 white tomentum. Membrane fumate or pale brownish, certain 

 areas indistinctly conspurcate with fumate, veins brownish, cubitus 

 paler at apex of larger areole. 



Legs : Chiefly pale to yellowish, hind femora fusco-brownish 

 with reddish on apical half, irrorate with small and moderately 

 large pale spots but not forming distinct subapical band; front 

 tibiae with reddish brown annulus at middle and one at middle of 

 basal half, nearly obsolete on intermediate pair ; hind tibiae reddish 

 near base, spines yellowish brown ; tarsi yellowish, dusky on apex. 



Venter : Pale to yellowish, sides largely orange reddish but more 

 or less invaded with pale spots, pale yellowish pubescent ; genital 

 claspers distinctive of the species (fig. 142), the long arm of right 

 clasper coming nearest to tibialis. 



Female: Length 5.9 mm., width 2.4 mm.; very similar to the 

 male, but hemelytra more broadly pale, the clavus yellowish brown 

 with irregular pale areas. 



Holotype: Male, 4 July, 1909, Lakehurst, N. J. (Chris. E. Olsen) ; 

 author's collection. Allotype : same data as the type. Paratypes : Male 

 and females (2), taken with types. New York — Female, 4-7 July, 1915, 

 Bayshore; Female, 4 July, 1911, Yaphank; female, 21 Aug., 1917, Wyan- 

 danch, Long Island (Chris. E. Olsen). Female, 12 July, 1919, Cold Spring 

 Harbor, Long Island (H. M. Parshley). (Named in honor of the collector, 

 Mr. Chris. E. Olsen.) 



