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lines becoming more curved behind. At base, each side 

 of middle, is an indented black dot, and diagonally back 

 from this, on each side, is an oblong, blackish spot. 

 Corium finely flecked with brown, punctate like the scutel- 

 lum, the membrane brownish. Connexivum both above 

 and below pale or 3^ellowish, having each segment marked 

 with a blackish, large spot. Underside pale luteous, 

 punctate with brown, the hollows of pleural pieces with 

 patches of dark brown, and denser punctures, the sub- 

 maro-in of ventor unevenly clouded with brown ; each 

 side of middle is a curved, longitudinal line of broad, 

 brown spots. Legs luteous, the femora marked near the 

 tip with a loop of brown spots, tibiae faintl}' banded and 

 marked with brown, tarsi mostly brown. Length to end of 

 scutellum 1 1 to 14 mm. Width of pronotum 8 to 9 mm. 



Two specimens from Southwestern Arizona, and a 

 female from Sonora, Mexico, have been examined by me. 

 The yellow spots of the pronotum have been less distinct 

 in the females that I have seen. It is possible that 

 these are varieties of Tetyra arcuata Fab., but they are 

 widely different from the insect as described by Fabricius. 

 Podisus crocatus, New sp. 



Broad, suboval, more robust than P. cynicus Say, and 

 with blunter and more callous humeral angles. Color 

 dull orange, brighter beneath, coarsely, deeply and un- 

 evenly punctate with dark green. Head subquadrate, 

 longer than wide, margined with dark green, often with 

 two dark, short stripes on the basal raised lines, and with 

 a dark streak on the middle of the tylus, reliefs between 

 the eyes strongly defined, lateral lobes somewhat longer 

 than the tylus, more finely punctate than the vertex, their 

 outer angles a little rounded and marked with dark green. 

 Underside of head polished, sparsely and finely punctate 

 in separated patches or lines, the under submargin of the 

 lateral lobes closely and deeply punctate ; rostrum reach- 



