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antennal joint thickened, the first joint testaceous, and the third infuscate. The females 
have the second antennal joint slender, the first joint more or less infuscate, and the 
third partly or entirely testaceous. The pubescence is whitish on the head, pronotum, 
scutellum, and under surface, and almost golden on the elytra, 
2. Triphleps insidiosus. 
Reduvius insidiosus, Say, Descr. new sp. Heteropt. Hemipt. (New Harmony, Dec. 1831) '; Com- 
plete Writings, i. p. 357”. 
Triphleps insidiosus, Reut. Monogr. Anthocorid. p. 97°. 
Anthocoris pseudo-chinche, Fitch, First and Second Reports on the Noxious, Beneficial, and other 
Insects of New York, p. 295 *. 
Anthocoris lepidus, Stal, Rio Jan. Hemipt. i. p. 43°. 
Triphleps lepidus, Reut. Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Forh. 1871, p. 564°. 
Triphleps rugicollis, Reut. loc. cit. p. 565’. 
Triphleps latulus, Reut. loc. cit. p. 565°. 
Triphleps perpunctatus, Uhler, P. Z. 8. 1894, p. 201 * (nec Reuter)’. 
Hab. Norta America!?, Eastern United States from New York ?4 to Texas? 8, 
S. Carolina 8, —Mexico 3, Fortin in Vera Cruz (f/. H. Smith), Chapultepec (Bilimek, in 
Mus. Vind. Ces.); GUATEMALA, near the city (Champion).—Braziu?5°; ARGENTINA ® ; 
ANTILLES, St. Thomas °, Grenada ®. 
We possess two specimens of this species from within our limits, and I have seen 
two others belonging to the Vienna Museum. ‘The second antennal joint is thickened 
in the male. 
8. Triphleps tristicolor. 
Triphleps tristicolor, B. White, Ent. Monthly Mag. xvi. p. 145°; Reut. Monogr. Anthocorid. 
p. 98; Uhler, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. (2) iv. p. 278°. 
Hab. Norta America, California!?2, Lower California °, Margarita I.3, Texas ?,— 
Mexico, Mexico city (H. H. Smith), Tacubaya, Chapultepec, San Marcos (Bilimek, in 
Mus. Vind. Ces.), Tabasco (coll. Signoret?); GuaTEMALA, near the city (Champton) ; 
Panama, San Miguel in the Pearl Is. (Champion). 
This insect is evidently a dark form of TZ. insidiosus; it has the clavus entirely 
piceous. 
4. Triphleps pumilio, n. sp. 
Ovate, sparsely pubescent, shining, nigro-piceous above, paler beneath; the ante-ocular portion of the head, 
the rostrum, antennz, and legs testaceous ; the elytra testaceous, with the cuneus slightly infuscate, the 
membrane pale; the venter ferruginous. Head short and broad, the eyes very large; antennz moderately 
* T. perpunctatus of Prof. Ubler’s St. Vincent list (op. cit. p. 156) belongs to a different species. 
