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middle of the mesosternum. Pronotum very closely reticulated; apex of the elytra 
more widely reticulated. Length, 3 mm.; width, 1.1 mm. 
Color: General color grayish-brown. Body beneath dusky. Elytra grayish- 
brown, with a spot or band near the middle and the nervures at tip dark-brown. 
No specimens have been collected in the state, altho the species prob¬ 
ably occurs as it has been taken in Indiana. 
Genus Physatochila Fieber. 
PJiysatochila Stal, Enum. Hem., Band. Ill, p. 120, 1873. 
Head with the spines bent down against its surface. Antennae mod¬ 
erately slender; first segment swollen,- less than twice the length of the 
second; second segment short, less swollen; third segment very long, 
slender; fourth segment fusiform. Rostral groove uninterrupted, open 
at the tip. Hood moderately large, extending over a small portion of 
the head. Pronotum closely reticulated, with three longitudinal carinae; 
membranous margins foliaceous, obtusely rounded, reflexed back against 
the surface of the pronotum. Elytra narrowed at the base, broadly 
rounded at the tip, extending beyond the apex of the abdomen; subcostal 
area very long, narrow; discoidal area extending beyond the middle of 
the elytra. Wings longer than the abdomen. 
KEY TO THE SPECIES OF PHYSATOCHILA. 
Rostrum reaching beyond the first segment of the abdomen; elytra gray-brown, 
the nervures more or less fuscous. P. plexa Say 
Rostrum reaching between the intermediate coxae; elytra dull-brown, con- 
colorous . P. hrevirosfris n. sp. 
Physatochila plexa Say. 
Physatochila plexa Say, Hem. New Harm., p. 26, 1832; Compl. Writ., Vol. I, 
p. 349. 
Physatochila plexa Stal, Enum. Hem., Band. HI, p. 129, 1873. 
Head with five spines bent down against its surface. Antennae moderately 
long; first segment less than twice the length of the second. Rostrum very long, 
reaching the middle of the second segment of the abdomen. Reflexed pronotal 
margins extending to or slightly over the outer longitudinal carina. Elytra reach¬ 
ing a little beyond the apex of the abdomen; costal area with three complete or 
two and a partial third irregular series of areolae. Wings extending a little be¬ 
yond the apex of the abdomen. Length, 3.4 mm.; width, 1.5 mm. 
Color: General color grayish-brown and more or less marked with fuscous. 
Body beneath brownish. Antennae brownish ; apex of terminal segment fuscous. 
Legs brownish; tarsi darker. Pronotum and elytra grayish-brown; nervures 
marked with fuscous. 
This species differs from P. brcvirosfris by its more oval shape, the 
longer rostrum, and the shorter elytra and wings. 
