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cous, coiifluently punctured, the iuner edge impunetured; beneath yel- 

 lowish, coarsely, confluently punctured with black, numerous small, 

 impunctured spots, especially against the sutures of the pectus, each 

 abdominal segment with a small bare spot upon the edge, middle of the 

 venter less densely and more finely punctured, becoming obsolete U230n 

 the immediate disk, each side of which is a longitudinal dull spot, cen- 

 tral furrow very distinct, reaching obsoletely upon the penultimate seg- 

 ment ; coxae yellow, black in the middle ; femora yellowish, black at 

 the tip, and coarsely punctured with black; tibias hairy, pale piceous, 

 finely punctured ; tarsi blackish-piceous, pubescent. 



Leuiith 7 lines. Humeral breadth 4J lines. 



Hdh. — Baltimore. Rare. A specimen in the collection of the So- 

 ciety. 



This species deviates a little from the type of the genus; differing a 

 little in the length of the rostrum, the shape of the head, and the ab- 

 dominal furrow does not attain to the posterior margin of the penulti- 

 mate segment ; but it cannot be properly separated from this genus. 



ziCRONA, Dallas. 



Z. splendida. — Dark green, polished; head finely margined with 

 yellow anteriorly, emarginated, margins recurved, surface rather finely 

 punctured, middle lobe shorter than the lateral ones; antennae and ros- 

 trum black, the latter with white sides to the first joint, and tips of the 

 basal joints, also whitish ; thorax coarsely, confluently punctured pos_ 

 teriorly, more finely and sparsely so towards the anterior angles, ante- 

 rior margin with a very narrow, each side interrupted, red line, lateral 

 margins red and connected at the humerus with a tran.sverse red line, 

 which crosses the disk ; seutellum confluently, and more finely punc- 

 tured than the thorax, and a red line running parallel to the margin 

 half its length, and the apex red ; hemelytra still more finely and densely 

 punctured thau the seutellum; embolium white; membrane dark green ; 

 lateral margins of the tergum red from the embolium to the apex; be- 

 neath coarsely punctured upon the pectus, more finely so upon the ven- 

 ter, middle of the head, an interrupted, spotted line against the legs, 

 connected with an interrupted transverse line upon the antepectus, and 

 the surface between the legs, pearly-white ; lateral margins of the ven- 

 tral segments broadly red, the last segment very narrowly so, disk of 

 the venter and a small spot upon the penultimate segment, also red ; 

 each side, behind the discoidal spot, is an elongated silvery spot; legs 

 dark green, polished, punctured, tibiae and tarsi pubescent. 



Length 4 lines. Humeral breadth 2} lines. 



Hah. — California. Cabinet of the Society. 



