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known by its pale variegated pronotum, punctate costal area 

 of the elytra, pale coxal areas, large apical field of the scutellum, 

 the conspicuous black point of the corium and the dark feet and 

 antennae. 



7. Crophius scabrosus Uhler. 



Oxycarenus scabrosus Uliler, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. xxvii, 



P- 353, ig°4> 



Aspect of May ana costata Dist. 

 Head short; basal joint of the antennas 

 short and thick, surpassing the tylus by 

 one third of its length ; third joint about 

 two thirds the length of the second and 

 fourth. Bucculae little elevated. Ros- 

 trum attaining the base of the metaster- 

 num , which is scarcely sulcate. Pronotum 

 short and broad, scarcely constricted; 

 callousities inconspicuous and with the 

 anterior lobe of the pronotum, finely 

 punctured. Elytra less widened pos- 

 teriorly than in our other species, corium 

 coarsely irregularly punctured between 



the stout nervures; membrane much exceeding the abdomen. 

 Length 3-1/2 mm. 



Color: Head, scutellum and pectus in part piceous black; 

 longitudinal disk of the head ferruginous. Pronotum testaceous 

 grey; coarsely fusco-punctate, the punctures becoming finer 

 anteriorly, the region of the callousities and sometimes a round 

 area before the humeri darker; apical carina of the scutellum 

 pale. Elytra cinerous; the nervures embrowned and marked 

 with black where they join the apical margin; tips of the clavus 

 and corium black ; membrane without the dark discal cloud but 

 a little paler along either side, the nervures infuscated; disk of 

 the areoles dotted and varied with fuscous. Legs piceous black, 

 knees and base of the tarsi ferruginous, tibiae with a broad white 

 annulus; insertion of the coxae and posterior flap of the meta- 

 pleura whitish ; abdomen piceous black, opaque. 



Type locality New Mexico. Of this species I have a long 

 series taken at Milford, Utah, by Mr. J. C. Bradley and I took 

 it myself at Ft. Collins and Manitou, Colorado; Mr. Heidemann 



