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sharply keeled through their whole length, the extreme edge of this keel 

 piceous. Length 10 mm. 



Described from three specimens taken by Prof. F. H. Snow 

 in the Baboquivari Mountains, Arizona. 



Rcduvhts personatus, the so-called "kissing- bug," is the only 

 species of this large genus heretofore recorded from America. 

 Most of the known species have their home in the palaearctic 

 region but a few are found in the tropical portions of Asia and 

 Africa. The species here described is but one of the interest- 

 ing Hemiptera discovered by Prof. Snow in his entomological 

 explorations in the far southwest. 



A New Cuterebra from Nebraska. 

 By PAUL R. JONES, Lincoln, Neb. 



While on a collecting expedition near Glen, Sioux County, 

 Nebraska, during the summer of 1906, two specimens of Cute- 

 rebra were captured by Mr. Harry S. Smith. In determining 

 them one was found to be C. tenebrosa Coquillett, and the other 

 appeared to be new, the description of which is submitted below. 



Cuterebra cyanella n. sp. ? . Head black, front at narrow- 

 est point seven times as wide as the distance between the two 

 posterior ocelli. Front on each side provided with two small, 

 yellowish-gray triangular spots, one on the inner margin of 

 the eye, and the other between it and the base of the antennae. 

 In addition to these there is another pollinose spot of similar 

 size on the eye-margin of the face just below the lateral one 

 of the front. Face black, sub-shining, destitute of pollen ex- 

 cept for the spot mentioned, and a faint crescent-shaped mark 

 on the lateral edges of the antennary pit. Antennary pit 

 black, shining, pollinose behind the antenna. Antennae black, 

 third joint pollinose. Arista longer than the antennae, loosely 

 plumose, black at the base, yellow at apex. Thorax black, 

 with a slight bluish cast, sub-shining, covered with fine black 

 hairs, pleura with longer hair of similar color, and destitute 

 of any oblique tuft of yellow pile in front of the base of the 

 wings. Scutellum of same color, but the hair longer than 

 that of the thorax. Abdomen shining steel-blue, anterior lat- 

 eral margin of third, fourth and fifth segments pollinose be- 



