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the "Complete Writings."* Say's type was from Pennsyl- 

 vania and his description is pretty good, fully agreeing with 

 my specimens. Hemipterists who for the first time saw a 

 Henicocephalus have generally thought they had something 

 quite unknown before them, no less than nine generic names 

 having been bestowed on the genus in addition to one name 

 given to the larva. It is interesting and worth remembering 

 that Say, who described his species five years before West- 

 wood founded the genus Henicocephalus and who was little 

 inclined to propose new genera, placed the insect in Reduviits, 

 between his Rednrius acuminatus (an Oncerotrachehis) and 

 his Redui'ius insidiosns (a Triphleps), thus not far from its 

 true position. Although Say failed to recognize a new genus 

 and family in his species he was so impressed with the singular 

 structure of its head that he gave his insect a specific name 

 exactly corresponding to the generic name (Dicephalus) under 

 which the genus was redescribed by W. F. Kirby. 



Fam. COREIDAE. 



Harmostes bruesi n. sp. 



Above whitish testaceous, head somewhat darker, pronotum (except 

 apical third and lateral borders), clavus, and interior part of corium 

 pink-colored, underside of body pale greenish testaceous (in the live 

 insect probably pure green). Head finely and thickly punctured with an 

 impressed line reaching from the base of the head to the base of the 

 clypeus and a much shorter linear impression before each ocellus and 

 between the ocellus and the eye, apical process scarcely reaching the 

 middle of the first antennal joint, rostrum reaching the hind coxae, pale 

 testaceous with black tips, antennae reddish testaceous, first joint in- 

 crassated, finely granulated, its exterior margin straight, interior mar- 

 gin convex, second and third joints linear, subequal in length, each as 

 long as the head and a little less than twice the length of the first 



[*The description of Rcduvius biceps is included in Le Conte's "Com- 

 plete Writings of Thomas Say," vol. i, p. 356, where it is found in the 

 reprint of a paper entitled "Descriptions of new species of Heterop- 

 terous Hemiptera of North America. New Harmony, Indiana, De- 

 cember, 1831." A footnote by Le Conte states, "This memoir is taken 

 from a reprint by Dr. Asa Fitch, in the Transactions of the New York 

 State Agricultural Society for 1857; I have never seen an original copy 

 of it and can consequently give only the paging of the reprint." Neither 

 the library of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia nor 

 that of the American Philosophical Society in the same city possesses 

 a copy of the original edition of 1831. ED.] 



