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joint, fourth joint narrowly fusiform, a little longer than first. Prono- 

 tum densely punctate with a low pale median ridge not quite reaching 

 the apical margin and with four impressions placed in a transverse 

 row before the middle, the interior impressions situated close to the 

 median keel, lateral margins smooth, moderately subangularly sinuate 

 in the middle, humeral angles rectangular, very narrowly rounded, 

 intrahumeral impressions distinct. Scutellum densely punctate with a 

 faint median keel not reaching the apex. Metasternum strongly groov- 

 ed in the middle. All pleurae densely punctulate. Corium and clavus 

 strongly and rather thickly punctate, costal margins of coria parallel 

 from the base through less than a third their length, then slightly am- 

 pliated, membrane hyaline, passing apex of abdomen by half its length. 

 Abdomen beneath strongly sulcated from its base to the apex of the 

 third segment, male genital segment arcuately sinuate at apex with 

 three appendages protruding from the interior, the median one very 

 short, conical, the lateral ones knife-shaped, turning their convex mar- 

 gin inwards, whitish with the apex narrowly infuscated. Legs tes- 

 taceous, hind femora passing apex of abdomen, their incrassated part 

 tinged with reddish brown, the spines white, the larger ones with the 

 extreme tip blackish. Length, $ 6.8 mm., with membrane 8 mm. 



Texas (C. T. Brues). 



This species cannot be easily mistaken for any other North 

 American species and is also well distinguished from the neo- 

 tropical forms. In structure it is intermediate between Stal's 

 divisions a and aa, having non-serrulate pronotal lateral mar- 

 gins, but a deep basal ventral furrow. It possibly comes near- 

 est to H. bicolor Dist., but Distant says nothing about the 

 presence or absence of the ventral groove in any of the spe- 

 cies described by him. 



This insect was among some Texan Hemiptera kindly pre- 

 sented to me by Mr. Brues. The label shows no precise lo- 

 cality, only the date 3-23-00^ 



Honors to Entomologists. 



Professors John Henry Comstock, of Cornell University, and Clar- 

 ence E. McClung, of the University of Pennsylvania, and Assistant 

 Surgeon General William C. Gorgas, U. S. A., were elected members 

 of the American Philosophical Society at Philadelphia, on April 19. 

 Professor George H. Parker, of Harvard University, was elected a 

 member of the National Academy of Sciences, at Washington, April 

 22-24. 



[fMr. Brues has kindly informed us that : "The bug dated 3-23-'oo 

 was from Austin, Texas, I am positive, as 1 collected there at that 

 date." ED.] 



