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smaller, nearly cinereus in color and has much finer irroratlons 
on the elytra. Specimens are at hand only from Texas, 
Arizona and California, indicating a southwestern distribution; 
majestus is much larger, fulvous red with coppery reflections, 
being the largest and most highly colored species of the genus. 
It closely mimics Gypona scarloMna in size and appearance, and 
occurs in similar situations. Specimens have been collected at 
Ames, and one specimen received from Philadelphia and another 
from Mississippi. None have been received from the known 
habitat of spatulatus and it would seem to be an eastern form 
although its scarcity in collections may be due to the fact that 
it is extremely difficult to catch. 
PHLEPSIUS DECORUS N. SP. 
(Plate xxvi, Fig. 7.) 
Form very broad and short; elytra flaring; color milk-white, 
sparsely irrorated with deep fuscous or black giving it a dark, 
maculate appearance with scarcely a trace of fulvous. Length, 
6 mm; width, on center of costa, 2.50 to 3 mm. 
Head narrower than the pronotum; vertex flat, similar to rnsjestus, 
twice wider than long, slightly longer on middle than next eye, acutely 
angled with the front; front broad, flat, sides straight, twice wider above 
than at apex, about one-third longer than wide, basal suture well marked; 
geuce broad, outer angle distinct; pronotum short, about half longer than 
the vertex; lateral margin oblique, carinate, two-thirds the length of the 
vertex, posterior angle well marked; elytra short, scarcely twice longer 
than wide, veins on clavus nearly touching in the middle, united by a 
short cross nervure, central apical cell half longer than wide. 
Color: Vertex pearly white with numerous fuscous irrorations which 
merge into an irregular transverse band between the eyes; face creamy 
white, irrorate with fuscous, the arcs nearly obliterated; clypeus fuscous 
on suture, two slightly divergent lines on disk; pronotum yellowish with 
fine fuscous irrorations, two crescentiform dashes near the anterior margin, 
black; scutellum soiled yellowish, two fuscous spots on the disk; elytra 
milk-white, nervures black, claval suture and margins of the nervures 
yellowish brown, irrorations fuscous to black, more or less definitely 
arranged in three transverse bands and a series of spots on the costal 
margin toward the apex; scuteliar and sutural margins broadly white. 
Genitalia: Ultimate ventral segment of female very broad and short, 
over four times wider than long, nearly truncate behind with a broad deep 
notch, extending half way to the base. Male: valve small triangular; 
plates broad, short and convex, scarcely half longer than ultimate segment, 
parallel margined at base, bluntly angularly pointed. 
Described from one maie from Lincoln, Neb. (Braner), and 
one female collected at Ames, Iowa. 
This and the preceding species belong to the section of the 
genus in which the head is narrower than the pronotum and which 
