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ventral segment with three small opaque spots two of which are approxi- 

 mate and placed anteriorly. Anterior femora incrassated, armed with 

 about four minute teeth one of which is longer and stouter. 



In Stal's synopsis of the extra-European genera of the 

 Leth(eria, to which subfamily this genus pertains, it would run 

 nearest to section " 14 (n) " but it is quite distinct from the 

 African genus Androg&us there defined. I can find no 

 European genus in which it can be placed. 



Xestocoris uitens n. sp. 



Piceous black, highly polished ; above long setose ; basal two joints of 

 the antennae, rostrum, clypeus, anterior and posterior margins and very 

 slender lateral carinae of the pronotum, clavus, corium, legs, and apex of 

 the abdomen, testaceous or rufo-testaceous ; coxae and narrow margins 

 of the pleural pieces more or less rufous. Humeri prominent, rectan- 

 gular, pale. Head and anterior lobe of the pronotum impunctate, the 

 narrow hind margin of the pronotum, the scutellum, and the elytra with 

 coarse scattering punctures which form a single line on either margin of 

 the scutellum, three on the clavus, and about three imperfect rows on the 

 disk of the corium and one on the inner edge of the broad costal area. 

 Membrane short, the nervures nearly obsolete. Venter piceous or black. 

 Eyes rufous. In the specimens before me there are a few coarse punc- 

 tures close to the anterior margin of the pronotum and a little group near 

 the centre of its disk, and in some the disk of the corium is embrowned. 

 By oblique light and under a lense the dark surfaces exhibit very beautiful 

 metallic blue reflections. Length 3-3^ mm. 



Described from nine examples representing both sexes. 

 Eight of these were taken by me at Golden, near Buffalo, New 

 York, in August ; the other specimen was taken by Mr. Philip 

 Fischer at Buffalo in March. 



Reduvius (Opsicoetus) senilis n. sp. 



Much smaller and paler in color than personatus. Pale testaceous brown 

 inclining to piceous on the head, pronotum and scutellum ; hemelytra 

 clouded with brown with an indefinite spot behind the scutellum, the base 

 of the costa and the apex of the corium whitish ; whole surface covered 

 with rather long hairs. Head more tumid behind the eyes, a little nar- 

 rower and more deflexed before the eyes than in personatus ; eyes and 

 vertex about the ocelli black ; anterior lobe of the pronotum strongly 

 convex and polished, with a deep median sulcus ; posterior lobe rather 

 strongly rastrate-punctate, the collar of the anterior lobe shorter than in 

 personatus. Scutellum shorter with the apical spine less developed than 

 in the allied species. Beneath paler with the sides and apex of the venter 

 in some individuals suffused with blackish ; the metapleura and venter 



