HEMirTERA— EETEKOPTERA— CAPSID^. 363 



Closterocoris elegans. 

 PI. 24, Fig. 7. 



Head siibqnadrate, light colored, with a black i)atch posteriorly next 

 the eyes. Antenna'; with the first joint black, as long- as the thorax, stouter 

 than the tibia?, the remaining joints blackish fuscous, the apical paler, sec- 

 ond joint half as long as the hemelvtra, third a little longer than the fourth, 

 and with it nearly as long as the first two, the whole as long as thorax and 

 hemelytra combined. Thorax more tumid at the base than in our living 

 C. ornatus, but otherwise of the same shape, the base slightly more than 

 twice as broad as the apex, pale, witli a median and on each side a lateral, 

 broad, deep black stripe, broadening posteriorly ; scutellum pale, except 

 for a broad, duskv transverse band at base. Hemelytra pale, except a slen- 

 der, deep black, costal stripe extending the whole length of the corium, and 

 a dark fuscous belt which occupies the whole clavus and, as that of one side 

 unites with the other, follows down the inner margin of the hemel3tra, 

 fnding out on the more or less but generally slightly infumated membrane, 

 the membranal suture sometimes heavily infumated or infuscated. Legs 

 pale fuscous, the tips of the hind femora and to a less extent the bases of 

 the hind tibia?, broadly and heavily obscured, as are also to a less depth all 

 the tarsi and the tips of the tibife. 



Length of body and closed hemelytra, 7.25""" ; breadth of thorax at 

 base, 2.4™™; length of antenna?, 9.7™"'; first joint, l.o™" ; second joint, 

 3.5™™; third joint, 2.5™™; fourth joint, 2.2™™; hemelytra, 6.75™™; hind 

 femora, 3.65™™; tibia?, 4.85"™; tarsi, 1.15™™. 



Florissant. Eight specimens, Nos. 2181, 2533, 4288 and 4369, 8864, 

 12979, 12981, 14202, 16419. 



CARMELUS Distant. 



The two species from Florissant described below agree so well in gen- 

 eral featui-es with the two species of this genus from Panama figured jjy 

 Distant, and especially with C. parvus, that I place them here, though they 

 do not agree with his descriptions as regards the antenna', the second joint 

 being relatively longer than he describes it, though no longer than given 

 in both his figures. They are certainly not far removed from Phytocoris 

 involutus Germ, from amber. 



Table of the species of Carmelus. 



Thorax tapering regularly with straight (>l)li(ine sides 1. C. gravatiiK 



Thorax more or less tumid, the tiiimriiig sides distinctly couves 2. C. sepositus. 



