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ately short. Head broad, eyes large, nearly tricin<j;ular, a 

 tittle emarginated on the outer border, the fovea acute- 

 ovate, occupying most of the front, front and vertex 

 broad, the carinate line on the middle thick, continuous, 

 acuminate at tip, middle of occiput triangularly produced. 

 Pronotum very short, convex lurid brownish, with six or 

 seven broad, yellow bands, the basal one very short. 

 Surface minutely rastrate, polished, blunth^ rounded be- 

 hind. Clavus minutely rastrate, pale, lurid brown in 

 some specimens; others are fainth^ marked with series of 

 yellowish, transverse flecks, which are bent and sinuous 

 in large part, especially upon the corium, the corium 

 feebly rastrated before the middle, hairs of the surface 

 long, sparse, prostrate, pale yellowish, costal area pale 

 yellowish, slenderly margined with dark brown. 



The palae of the female broad, scythe-shaped, wider 

 before the tip, which is a little curved, the tibiae are nar- 

 rower and much shorter than the pala; and a little curved. 

 Length from tip of head to end of hemielytra % 5 mm., 

 9 41^ mm. Width of pronotum i y, mm. 



Numerous specimens of this insect were collected in 

 Central Texas by G. W. Belfrage, and specimens sent to 

 me from Northern Illinois by B. D. Walsh. It seems to 

 be closely related to C. Bnnneisterii Fieber. 

 Corixa Kennicottii, New sp. 

 Radius or fuscous, marked with luteous, long and mod- 

 erately narrow; pronotum short, broadly curved on 

 posterior margin, the middle carina percurrent and termi- 

 nating in a small knob at the posterior end; six trans- 

 verse pale yellow lines, the posterior one very short, most 

 of these lines bordered with a fine incised line ; sutures 

 and margins of the hemelytral pieces pale yellow. Head 

 prominently convex in front, whitish, triangularly a little 

 produced behind, depressed before the occipital middle, 

 and terminated there by a gradually tapering cervical 



