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head, mesonotum with the middle shield triangular, about twice as long 

 as wide, carinate on the middle and sides, bluntly triangular at the pos 

 terior end, the pleural area carinate. Legs short, stout, the anterior femora 

 grooved and carinate beneath, tibiae flattened on the outer surface arid 

 margined with carinate lines. Hemelytra scarcely longer than the 

 abdomen, bluntly rounded at tip, the veins coarse, granulated, the medial 

 areoles few, long, narrow, the apical series composed of rather short 

 areoles which widen apically, clavus large, long, acutely subtriangular. 

 Abdomen short and stout. 



M. sordulentus, new sp. 



Dark brown, somewhat clouded with obscure fulvous. Vertex dull 

 yellowish, indented each side of middle, brown on the posterior suture, 

 front soiled yellowish, a little obscured with brown on the lateral margins, 

 clypeus same color, but soiled brownish each side of tylus, rostrum and 

 eyes brown. Dorsal shield of mesonotum pale brownish, with the cari 

 nate lines coarse and pale yellow. Pectoral pieces pale brown, more or less 

 spread with yellowish. Coxae soiled yellowish, the legs brown, tibiae, 

 apex of femora and portions of the tarsi, pale fulvous. Hemelytra dull 

 fulvous, crossed by irregular bands of brown ragged spots, the coarse 

 vein of inner margin and veins between the spots pale fulvous or testa 

 ceous. Abdomen brown, paler beneath, the connexivum interrupted with 

 pale fulvous spots. 



Length to end of abdomen 3^ mm. Width across base of hemelytra 

 i^ mm. 



One specimen, a female, was collected near Lake Worth, Fla., 

 by Mrs Annie Trumbull Slosson. I have also examined frag 

 ments of a specimen of the same species from the Indian river 

 region. 



Cyphoceratops, new genus. 



Remarkable for having the lamellae of the vertex carried up divaricating 

 and curving back, expanded like ears to the posterior line of the eyes; 

 front very long, gradually narrowing above, widening below and forming 

 a long oval figure with the clypeus, the middle line defined by a continuous 

 thick carina, lateral margins slenderly carinate, and continued on the clyp 

 eus; eyes large and prominent, longer than the height of the auriculate lam 

 ellae; basal joint of antennae subfusiform, shorter than the second, which 

 is stout and knob-like; rostrum short, thick, and wide, not extending be 

 hind the anterior coxae. Pronotum very short, a little triangular on the 

 middle and bluntly carinate ; mesonotum triangular, a little wider than 

 long; scutellum small, longer than wide. Hemelytra long, suboval, 

 about three times as long as wide, the base a little curved and the apex of 

 membrane obliquely curved, basal series of areoles long, narrow, simple, 

 the vein next outside the inner areole forked at tip, the costal areole 

 longer than the next of the series, and these terminating on the same 



