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tunity to examine a single female which was sent by Dr. H. T. 

 Fernald for identification. The specimen was found on mag- 

 nolia, October 7, 1901, at the Hatch Experiment Station, 

 Massachusetts. A close examination proved that the bug 

 was identical with the new species described above. 



Leptoglossus clypealis, new species. 



Body oblong, yellowish brown, covered with short golden hairs. 

 Head as long as the thorax, narrowing towards front, the upper part 

 with two parallel black stripes and a short one behind each eye; 

 clypeus not rounded at tip, but conspicuously projecting as a stout 

 spine to nearly the apex of first an tennal joint; rostrum comparatively 

 short, extending to behind the middle coxee or to the first abdominal 

 segment. Antennae reddish brown, about as long as the distance from 

 head to the middle of body; basal joint with a black line exteriorly, 

 equal in length to the third; second and terminal joints subequal. 

 Thorax gradually sloping towards front, finely wrinkled and confluently 

 punctured; lateral margins slightly sinuate anteriorly; the humeral 

 angles bluntly rounded, the edge a little upturned and blackish; the 

 callosities shining black, feebly elevated, separated by a light-brown 

 somewhat raised line, continuing faintly backward; the disk of thorax 

 moderately convex, with a few scattered black dots; submarginal part 

 of posterior margin deeply depressed, and in front of it a transverse 

 sharp ridge. Scutellum black, the tip yellowish, strongly wrinkled. 

 Hemilytra very finely confluently punctured and with a yellowish-white 

 zig-zag band across the corium. Membrane transparent, pale brown, 

 darker at base. Dorsal part of abdomen more or less blackish, the 

 inner sides orange; underside of body pale brown, and dotted black. 

 Legs reddish brown; hind femora sulcate beneath, armed with a double 

 row of stout black spines; upperside mostly blackish streaked, beset 

 with hardly any tubercles. The membranous expansion of hind tibia? 

 spatulate-shaped, extending towards apex about two-thirds, being 

 broadest near that point; the inner side of expansion not much narrower 

 than the other side, edged apically with a few spines, finer ones on 

 the single part of the hind leg; the outer expansion feebly sinuated 

 twice, carrying two spines, the surface of the membranous expansion 

 dark brown, wrinkled, and finely golden pubescent, covered with 

 numerous small yellow spots and a larger transparent one on the 

 inner side. Venter with a shallow sulcation. 



Length '6 to 20 mm; width across thorax 4 to 5 mm. 



Described from two specimens, male and female; Platte 

 Canon, Colorado, May 20, 1901 (Dyar and Caudell); Salt Lake 

 City, Utah, July 17, 1900 (C. P. Close). Besides, others 

 have been examined from Las Vegas, New Mexico, October, 



