:570 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



a few scattering larger black pits, and a cluster of the same at each basal 

 angle, intercepted by an oblique pale callous. Elytra pale, with distinct 

 dusky punctures, which become finer and confluent in areas posteriorly on 

 the disk ; the surface sprinkled with conspicuous white calloused points, 

 which are found more indefinitely on the scutellum and pronotum. 

 Membrane more irregularly and obscurely veined than in the allied species. 

 Connexivum conspicuously alternated. Legs, base of the antennae and 

 the rostrum ferruginous or obscure brown ; the black apex of the latter 

 attaining the base of the third ventral segment. Genital segment of the 

 male short, of almost equal length across its whole width, the broad apical 

 sinus subangular. 



Described from one male and two female specimens received from 

 the Georgia State collection. These were captured in Georgia, but I have 

 seen others from Virginia. The short, square head, white points on the 

 elytra, and imperfect white points and black pits on the pronotum and 

 scutellum will distinguish this species. 



Genus Perillus, Stal. 

 In the Genera Insectorum, Asopinae, Schouteden has divided this 

 genus into two, restricting the name Perillus to one species (confluens), as 

 represented in our fauna, and establishing a new genus, Perilloides, for 

 our other species — bioculatus, circutncincius, splendidus and exaptus. 



Genus Podisus, H. S. 

 In the Genera Insectorum, Asopinae, p. 68, M. Schouteden has 

 reviewed genus Podisus as recognized in the Enumeratio, placing the name 

 Podisus as a synonym of Apateticus, Dallas, and renaming the larger 

 group of species ordinarily called Podisus as Eupodisus. Evidently he has 

 done this on the "first species" rule, a risky rule to follow in any case, and 

 in this instance particularly unfortunate. Stal has worked out the relations 

 of the various species in this genus with great care, and I can see no 

 reason why we should not follow him. Herrich-Schpeffer's first species 

 under his new genus Podisus, punctipennis, is a straight synonym of 

 Apateticus halys, Dallas ; his second species, strigipes, is an aberrant 

 form, for which Stal has founded the genus Afineus, while his fifth species, 

 albiceptus, is a synonym of Tynacantha marginata, Dallas, and must be 

 rejected. This leaves his third and fourth species, vittipeunis and pallipes, 

 which Stal considered as typical of the genus, as he had a perfect right to 



