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transverse veins and at apex; commissural nervure twice alternated with 

 white. Nervures of the wings slender, fuscous. In one example the base of 

 the elytra bears a fuscous cloud as in slossoni and humeralis. 



Described from two females taken at Belleair, Fla., by Mrs. 

 Annie Trumbull Slosson. 



Oecleus borealis n. sp. 



Closely allied to obtusus Ball; black with the carinae con- 

 spicuously fulvous. Length 6 mm. 



Head broader than in some of our species, almost semicircular in out- 

 line. Vertex rather wide at apex, narrowed to a point at base; viewed from 

 above produced hardly one-half its width before the eyes. Front strongly 

 narrowed at base where the median carina is nearly obsolete. Pronotum 

 deeply subangularly emarginate. Mesonotum distinctly 5-carinate. 



Color black; all the carina?, with the narrow margins of the pronotum, 

 mesonotum and pelural pieces, fulvo-testaceous. Metaplenra and base of 

 the abdomen covered by a testaceous band; the base of the genital seg- 

 ments of the same color in the female. Legs pale, lineate or clouded with 

 fuscous. Antenna? black on a narrow pale base. Usually there is a broad 

 fulvous vitta near the lateral angles of the mesonotum. Elytra nearly 

 hyaline, becoming distinctly smoky at apex; nervures strong, the punctures 

 distinct at base and as far as the apical areoles; stigma unusually short 

 and broad, sometimes more elongated. In dark examples the apical nervures 

 are more or less clouded with fuscous and the pale commissure is twice 

 interrupted with fuscous. 



Described from numerous examples taken in New York, 

 New Jersey, Florida and "Washington. D. C. (Types from N. J. 

 and Fla. ) This is the species I have heretofore determined as 

 decens Stal, but it is much smaller and darker and certainly 

 must be distinct. O. obtusus Ball sometimes has black vittae 

 between the mesonotal carinas and is very close to this species, 

 but it has the stigma narrower, the elytral nervures not so 

 heavy and the colors paler. 



Oecleus capitualatus n. sp. 



Size of pellucens Fowler but a little broader with a smaller 

 head and shorter vertex; black, lineate with fulvous on the 

 mesonotum. Length 7 mm. 



Head small, little longer than broad, scarcely wider than the greatest 

 distance between the mesonotal carina?. Vertex nearly linear, surpassing 

 the eyes by less than its own width if viewed vertically from above. Front 

 about as in pellucens, the median carina obsolete toward its base. Prono- 

 tum deeply subangularly emarginate, rather broadly rounded either side. 

 Mesonotum 5-carinate. 



