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Pronotum: length .57 mm., width at base .88 mm., apex .37 mm.; 

 dark chestnut or blackish, smooth, shining, strongly declivitous, devoid 

 of calli, collar narrow but distinct, lateral margins of the disk indis- 

 tinct, rounded. Scutellum same color as the pronotum, basal 1 

 prominent, strongly sloping backward, sharply cut away at each side; 

 apical lobe small, moderately arched and rounded at the sides, very 

 finely tranversely rugose. Sternum dark chestnut, shining; lobe of the 

 metasternal orifice projecting laterally very strongly. 



Hemclytra : width at tip of corium .91 mm., across the middle only 

 .77 mm.; clavus dark chestnut brown on the basal half and tip, golden 

 brown bordering the scutellum, pruinose on the exterior basal half; 

 apical half of the clavus with a cream colored spot which extends 

 laterally to the margin; corium dark velvety brown, the cuneus and 

 inner apical angles of corium with dark golden brown ; base of corium, 

 a narrow band across the middle, and exterior half of the apex, prui- 

 nose; sparsely covered with golden hairs; cuneus poorly defined from 

 the corium inside of the fracture, scarcely deflected ; membrane evenly 

 clouded, pale across the basal half of the large cells and bordering the 

 apical one-third of the cuneus. 



Legs : fore coxae yellowish brown like the femora, darker at the very 

 base; middle coxae dark brown; hind coxae pale, brownish at the 

 base; femora dark yellowish brown, anterior pair paler; tibiae dark 

 brown; tarsi pale brown, the apex and claws blackish. 



Venter: long and slender, noticeably flattened on the basal half, 

 first two segments yellowish brown, beyond this dark chestnut to 

 blackish, shining; genital claspers small. 



Described from 9 $ $ , June 22 to Aug. 10, Batavia, New 

 York, all of which came to the light in the writer's laboratory ; 

 i cJ , July 2, McLean, New York. 



Type : $ , Aug. 8, Batavia, New York ; author's collection. 



Mr. C. P. Alexander reports having seen this species flying 

 up in large numbers from the grass after sundown, llra- 

 chypterous and macropterous females of what is doubtless this 

 species rather than the occllatits from Texas, are well de- 

 scribed by Prof. Osborn (Proc. Iowa Acad. Sci., V, p. j^S, 

 1898) ; the nymphs and adults found occurring on gras-\ 

 ridges. 



Clivinema regalis new species. 



Bright orange red with blackish hemelytra, antennae and liln 

 structurally quite similar to villosa but differing greatly in sixe and 

 color, the pubescence without prominent recurved tips. Claws 



