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base of clavus, one on the claval suture one-third the distance from the base 
to apex, a spot on each of the two apical veinlets, a large spot on the disk 
of corium between the first and second sectors, and another large one on 
the sutural margin before the median small dot; front gray, with a median 
white line, and white arcs, the upper pair forming an arch above the rest, 
nearly transverse; rest of face light, a black spot under each ocellus and 
one on either side of the antennal base; tergum light yellow, disk clouded 
with dark, a row of black spots on either margin; connexivum and venter 
each with a row of spots next the suture; legs maculate. 
Genitalia: Ultimate ventral segment of the female one-half longer on 
lateral margin than penultimate, posterior margin angularly produced, 
one-third the length of segment; male valve broad and short; plates broad 
at base, narrowing rapidly to beyond the middle, with produced attenuate 
points, one-half longer than width at base, margin stout, fringed with long 
curved hairs, an oblique black mark on either side at base. 
Described from two females and four males, Ames, Iowa. 
PHLEPSIUS ALTUS N. SP. 
(Plate xxvi, Pig. 5.) 
Form similar to superbus, short and stout, elytra somewhat 
flaring: head short and broad, similar to truncatus. Dark ful- 
vous brown; length, 5.50 mm; width, 2 mm. 
Head slightly wider than the pronotum; vertex scarcely one-third longer 
at middle than next eye, three times wider than long, less than one-half the 
length of the pronotum, rounding to the front with a faint carina, as in 
cinereus; front three times wider above than on clypeus, twice longer than 
wide, slightly expanded below; lorae large, nearly twice wider than clypeus 
pronotum two and one-half times wider than long, lateral margins very 
short, less than one-half the length of the vertex, posterior angle well 
marked; elytra broad, about twice longer than wide, without an appendix, 
veins on clavus but slightly approaching each other in the middle, seldom 
with a cross nervure central apical cell no longer than breadth on margin. 
Color: Dark fulvous; pronotum and scutelium soiled yellowish-white; 
ir>rorate with fulvous brown, disk of pronotum usually clouded with fus- 
cous; vertex and face yellow, finely irrorate, almost clouded with fulvous, 
usually without pattern of marking except the white margined ocelli and 
a white spot on the upper angle of the lorse; elytra pearly white, washed 
with yellowish and irrorate with dark fulvoas, except for numerous spots, 
venter yellowish-brown; legs brown with dark markings. 
Genitalia: Ultimate ventral segment of female longer than penulti- 
mate; middle half of posterior margin truncate, with a deep median slit 
and a minute lobate indenture on either side; lateral half of either side 
produced as a semi-circular lobe against the side of the pygofers; male 
valve large, longer than ultimate segment, broadly lobate, margin indented 
on either side of the apex; plate broader than the valve, rapidly, convexly 
narrowing to the middle, then slightly produced, roundingly pointed; ven- 
tral surface convex, disk apparently raised, lighter. Described from sixty 
specimens. 
This species has been collected at Ames and Little Rock, 
Iowa, and specimens are at hand from West Point, Neb. 
