. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. 12 BULLETIlSr 964, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. The male (fig. 8) lias the normal form of the Hemiptera, while the brachypterous female may easily be taken for another species. The macropterous female (fig. 9) resembles the male, having long wings but is somewhat larger than the male. H. H. Knight, of the department of entomology, Cornell Uni- versity, Ithaca, N. Y., has kindly drafted the following redescription of the adult, from specimens furnished by the writer from Columbia, S. C. Slightly smaller and less shi
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. 12 BULLETIlSr 964, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. The male (fig. 8) lias the normal form of the Hemiptera, while the brachypterous female may easily be taken for another species. The macropterous female (fig. 9) resembles the male, having long wings but is somewhat larger than the male. H. H. Knight, of the department of entomology, Cornell Uni- versity, Ithaca, N. Y., has kindly drafted the following redescription of the adult, from specimens furnished by the writer from Columbia, S. C. Slightly smaller and less shining than aptenis L.; in addition to the vestiture of very fine pale pubescence, having on the dorsum deciduous tomentose patches which give silvery to greenish reflections as in intermedins Uhler. MALE (MACROPTEROUS). Length mm. ( to mm.), width mm.; slightly smaller and more slender than the female. Head.—Length mm., width across eyes mm., vertex mm. Nearly vertical, front prominent, more or less sulcate at the base of the tylus; black, shining; carina form- ed by a sharp basal margin of the head. Rost- rum reaching to the posterior margin of the middle coxae; first two segments black, the third and all but the apex of the fourth pale. Antennas.—Long and slender, reaching be- yond the tip of the membrane; segment T, length mm., pale, sometimes darkened at the apex, two or three prominent bristles just before the tip; IT, mm., black, linear, and slender; III, mm., fuscous to black, usually pale at the base, more slender than the second; IV, mm., fuscous, very slender. Pronotum.—Length mm., width at base mm., collar and calli not apparent; blacli, moderately shining, the disk having patches of deciduous tomentose pubescence as on the hemelytra. Scutellum, sternum, and pleurse black, moderately shining. Hemelytra.—Sides nearly parallel; black, the clavus and corium having patches of deciduous tomentose pubescen
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