Gibson — The Genera Corythaica and Dolichocysta. 103 



Type, 9 allotype c?, two paratypes $ , all from San Diego, Texas, and 

 in the collection of the U. S. National Museum. Type No. 22,294. 

 Densata is a manuscript name of Uhler. 



Dolichocysta constricta Osb. & Drake. 



1917 — Osborn and Drake, Ohio Jr. Science, xvii, No. 8, p. 304. 

 1917 — Van Duzee, Cat. Hemiptera, p. 817. 



The following description is taken from part of the original by Drake. 

 The species was described from a single specimen from Colorado which 

 the writer has not seen, but according to Drake's description it is plain 

 that it belongs in this genus. 



"Hood elongate, a little more arched and narrowed anteriorly than in 

 Corythaica carinata Uhl. Pronotum closely punctate . . . median carina more 

 strongly raised anteriorly, with one complete row of areoles and three or 

 four extra cells at the highest part. . . . Pronotal margins biseriate, strongly 

 reflexed. . . . Elytra reaching considerably beyond abdomen, broader and 

 more strongly constricted just back of the middle than in C. carinata, the 

 tumid elevation moderately large; costal area uniseriate, . . . subcostal area 

 mostly triseriate; discoidal area not quite reaching the middle of the 

 elytra with four rows of cells at the widest part ; sutural area broad. Length 

 2.62 mm.; width 1 mm. 



Color: General color grayish, with fuscous markings. Body beneath 

 brownish, the thorax darker brown. Legs brownish, the tips of tarsi in- 

 fuscated. Antennae brownish. Pronotum brownish. Elytra grayish- 

 brown, with a transverse costal band in front of constriction, another near 

 apex, and a few apical spots fuscous." 



