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Chrysolampus schwarzi n. sp. 



Female: Length 4 mm. Green, face above level of insertion of antennae 

 vertically rugulose, at insertion of antenna? curving inward and becoming 

 oblique, the face also having scattered punctures; the clypeus smooth with 

 a few scattered punctures; vertical striae on face reaching almost to level 

 of anterior ocellus, above this the face smooth except for the scattered punc- 

 tures; rear of head semicircularly rugulose; pronotum with coarse punctures 

 separated by about half a puncture width; middle lobe of mesoscutum at 

 extreme base transversely rugulose, rest of surface with punctures about 

 as close as on pronotum and between them the surface on the anterior part 

 transversely rugulose; parapsidal areas anteriorly transversely rugulose 

 with scattered large punctures; scutellum with large punctures but with 

 the medium line almost impunctured; propodeum irregularly rugulose, 

 petiole about as long as the propodeum, with a median longitudinal carina, 

 surface irregularly rugose; coxae and femora green, tibia bronzy with the 

 bases and apices reddish testaceous. 



Type-locality: Wasatch, Utah. 



Described from two specimens collected June 27, 1891, by Mr. 

 E. A. Schwarz. 



Type-specimen: Cat. No. 18308. U. S. N. M. 



The manuscript name used by Doctor Ashmead is adopted. 



O. M. REUTER. 



BY OTTO HEIDEMANN, Bureau of Entomology. 



Dr. 0. M. Reuter, entomologist, poet and philosopher, one of 

 our foremost hemipterists, died on September 2, 1913, in Abo, 

 Finland, his native town, at the age of sixty-three years. 



Five years before his death his eyesight became impaired and 

 during the last two years he was totally blind. Ih spite of fail- 

 ing eyesight he contemplated new studies in some groups of the 

 Hemiptera and finished some of his manuscripts with the aid of 

 his assistant, Dr. B. Poppius. 



In his last letter written in September, 1912, Doctor Reuter 

 said: "I intend to finish my work on the Termatophylidse and 

 have the paper published in Wytsman's Genera Insectorum, 

 also the genera of Cimicidse." 



His chief study was the large and very difficult family of the 

 Capsidae (or Miridse of some authors). Besides numerous False- 

 arctic species, he described 56 new species of North American 

 Capsids as early as 1875, and 78 more new species in his publication 

 on Neartic Capsidse in 1909. In 1905, appeared his classification 

 of the Capsidae (Hemipterologische Speculationen) ; but the 



