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apex, depressed, especially on the apical half, bluntly carinate on outer 

 edge, inner edge arcuate, excised as far as the triangular, sharp, rather 

 prominent tooth on the middle of the basal half; beyond, and sometimes 

 previously, minutely tuberculate in a double series nearly to the tip. 



Length of body, male, 8.5-1 1.25 m.m., female, 8-11 m.m.; of 

 antennse, 5-6 m.m.; of tegmina and wings, 4-4.25 m.m.; of hind femora, 

 2.1-2.4 ni.m.; of forceps, male, 3.5-4.75 m.m., female, 2.5-3.5 m.m. 



Forficula tce?iiata Dohrn. I have seen a pair of specimens from Mr. 

 Uhler's collection, coming from Texas. 



Forficula exilis Scudd. The only specimen known comes from 

 Texas (P. R. Uhler). 



I have also another Texan species of Forficula from Mr. Uhler's 

 collection, but it is immature. 



Labia guttata Scudd. Three specimens were taken by Mr. Belfrage 

 in Bosque county. 



Labia minor (Linn.) This widespread species has reached Texas, 

 and is abundant there. Mr. Belfrage has taken many mature specimens 

 in June and September at Clifton. 



Labia melancholica Scudd. The single specimen known was taken by 

 Mr. Belfrage (at Waco, or near Austin) on Feb. 24th. 



PARTIAL LIST OF CAPSID^ TAKEN AT BUFFALO, N. Y. 



BY E. P. VAN DUZEE. 



For the last two seasons I have turned my attention more particularly 

 to collecting the Hemiptera; and very naturally became deeply interested 

 in the family of the Phytocoridae, or Capsidse, as they are generally 

 called. They are the most distinctively northern family of the Heteroptera, 

 as the Jassidse are of the Homoptera ; but they seem to have been neg- 

 lected by European as well as American Entomologists, probably because 

 of the variability of the species, and their frail structure which makes them 

 difficult of preservation, The literature of the Capsidae, though perhaps 

 not as meagre as of the Jassidte, is widely scattered and fragmentary as 

 regards American species, and makes this a difficult family to study. 



The species mentioned below have, with few exceptions, been taken 

 with the sweep-net from grass, weeds, or low bushes, in open fields and 



