1924] 
Notes on Piesma Cinerea Say in New Jersey 
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Body gray; not dilated on the margin; with much dilated punc- 
tures; head deeply bifid at tip and with a short robust spine 
between the eye and antennae, basal joint spherical, abruptly 
smaller at base, second joint not longer than the first and less 
dilated; thorax with four elevated lines, obsolete behind; an- 
terior lateral margin a little dilated; hemelytra covered, like 
the thorax with dilated approximate punctures, and having on 
the lateral margin a series of six or seven black spots; beneath 
grayish, more or less varied with brown; venter brownish, with 
spots or lines of grayish. Length to tip of hemelytra more than 
one-tenth of an inch. In form much resembling T. cardui F. 
It is not uncommon.’’ 
The coloration of the adult is variable and the color varieties 
grade into each other with one exception, this being the variety 
inornata described by McAtee (Bull. Brooklyn Entom. Soc., vol. 
14, 1919) and said by him to be distinct and always separable. 
