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outer margins of elytra, and most of the nervures beset closely with very fine, long 
hairs. Length, 3.6 mm.; width of each elytron across widest part, 1.4 mm. 
Plate VII.—Leptobyrsa explanata Heid. Fig. a, adult; fig. b, nymph (after Heide- 
mann). 
Color: Body shining black. Bucculae yellow. Antennae yellowish; apex in- 
fuscated. Pronotum .shining black; carinae yellowish. Hood, membranous pro- 
notal margins, and elytra yellowish; areolae semitranslucent, pale yellow. 
Warren, Ohio, July 15th, 1897 (H. B. Perkins). 
Genus Leptophya Stal. 
Leptophya Stal, Enum. Hem., Band. Ill, p. 121, 1873. 
Antennae rather stout; first segment less than twice the length of the 
second; second segment short; third segment not at all slender; fourth 
segment fusiform. Rostral sulcus uninterrupted by a transverse ridge, 
open at the tip. Pronotum closely reticulated, with a single, median 
Carina; lateral margins not foliaceous. Pronotal hood very broad, ex¬ 
tending over the base of the head. Elytra narrowed at the base, broadly 
rounded at the tip, a little longer than the abdomen. Wings extending 
beyond the apex of the abdomen. 
The genus contains only one described Nearctic species. 
Leptophya mutica Say (Plate X, fig. b). 
Leptophya mutica Say, Hem. New Harm., p. 26, 1832; Compl. Writ., Vol. I, 
p. 349, 1859. 
Head with two spines deflected against its surface. Antennae rather stout, 
about of a uniform thickness; first and second segments about equal in length; 
third segment long, cylindrical; fourth segment fusiform. Rostrum reaching the 
