Vol. XXVlii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 33 



A New Genus of Bothynotinae, Miridae (Heter.). 



By M. WIRTNER, Monte Casino, Covington, Kentucky. 



NEOBOTHYNOTUS new genus. 



This, our first American genus of Bothynotinae may easily 

 be recognized by examining the membrane which is pilose 

 above and below. 



Male oblong, female oval, or ovate in the short-winged fe- 

 male. Head subvertical, pilose, short, behind the exserted 

 eyes, constricted, immarginate ; vertex wide, somewhat con- 

 vex ; clypeus slightly elevated, separated at base from the 

 f rons, base on a line drawn between the antennal pits ; lorae 

 discrete ; gula short, subhorizontal. Eyes medium, prominent, 

 distinctly remote from the apex of the pronotum. Antennae 

 inserted on a line drawn between the center of the eyes, 

 strongly pilose, the basal joint incrassated, as long as or 

 slightly longer than the width between the eyes ; second longer 

 than the third and fourth united, or three-fourths as long as 

 the basal width of the pronotum, or a trifle shorter than the 

 pronotum and the scutellum united, becoming (especially in 

 the female) slightly thicker towards the apex. Rostrum 

 reaching the intermediate coxae, the first joint passing the 

 apex of the prosternum. 



Prosternum triangular, sides straight and raised, its xyphus 

 marginated ; orifices of the metapleura tuberculose. Prono- 

 tum trapeziform, collar raised, hairy, posteriorly convex, 

 towards the apex strongly declivous, basal width almost twice 

 its length, or three times its apical width, deeply closely punc- 

 tured ; calli confluent at the disc forming an arc, shining, 

 smooth. Scutellum triangular, hairy, the base covered, mi- 

 nutely transversely wrinkled, a carina beginning at the apex 

 and disappearing in the depressed middle of the base. 



Hemelytra rugose, hairy, lateral margins ampliated, in the 

 male semipellucid, opaque in the female; subcosta entire, 

 forming an embolium, cubitus also complete; the hairy 

 cuneus and the membrane much deflected ; membrane of the 

 male very long, of the short-winged female reaching the end 

 of the abdomen, biareolated, distinctly pubescent above and 

 below. 



