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Hemiptera, Can. Ent. XXL, p 1 1, 1889. But a comparison of the genital 

 characters with a series of striola received from Europe shows it to be 

 a well marked species. 



The true strioia is common about Buffalo from July to September on 

 swampy meadows and pasture lands. 



Goiiiagnathus Falmeri, n. sp. 



Form o{ Pediopsis insignis ; short and broad, punctured, colour uniform 

 deep shining black, tarsi and apical nervure of the elytra rufo-piceous. 

 Length, 4 mm. 



Head a little wider than the pronotum, closely punctured ; vertex 

 short, very little longer at the middle than next the eye, apex very 

 obtusely angled, passage to the front well rounded ; ocelli placed nearly 

 half way from the eye to the apex of the forehead ; front convex about 

 one-sixth longer than wide, sides pretty regularly arquated, suddenly con- 

 tracted at the apex, disc each side with a large smooth area crossed by 

 about eight irregular rows of punctures ; clypeus narrowed from its 

 rounded base, (its apex?) lorse broad ; cheeks broad, prominently angled 

 a little below the eyes j antenna? small, incerted beneath a feeble oblique 

 ledge. Pronotum long, almost semicircular in outline, latero-posterior 

 margins long, hind margin moderately concave ; surface coarsely 

 punctured, irregularly so on the disc, anterior submargin with an in- 

 terrupted transverse impunctured band across its whole width ; narrow 

 hind margin impunctured. Scutellum acute at apex; anterior field 

 coarsely punctured, disc with a finely punctured area each side of the 

 middle ; posterior field transversely wrinkled, with a few scattering 

 coarse punctures. Elytra but little longer than the abdomen, oblique at 

 tip, thick and coreaceous, smooth ; all the areoles circumscribed by a 

 single row of coarse punctures ; apical areoles five, short, subequal ; 

 antiapicals three. Inner edge of the posterior femora somewhat ex- 

 panded apically in a small rounded lobe ; basal joint of the hind tarsi 

 thickened. Abdomen stout, last ventral segment of the female longer 

 than the preceding, its hind edge very feebly advanced in the middle ; 

 pygofers short, obtusely subtriangular in form, slightly exceeded by the 

 ovipositor. 



Colour a imiform deep shining black ; apical nervure of the elytra, tarsi, 

 base of the eyes beneath, and the antennal setae, rufo-piceous. 



