408 TRANSACTIONS OF THE 



8. S. grossus, Uhler. Hayden, Bullet. U. S. 

 Geol. Surv. of 1873, p. 84. 



Cephalic process very stout, form robust, color pale, 

 veins very coarse, dotted with fuscous, two ulnar veins 

 narrowly forked, rostrum very long. 



Two specimens were secured for me by Mr. G. W. 

 Belfrage, near Waco, Texas. 



9. S. pungens [Flatd), Germar. Thon. Entom. Archiv., 



v. ii, p. 47 ; No. 11. 



This species seems to have become lost to modern 

 hemipterists. It is described in a very rare book, of 

 which I have met with only one copy in thirty years. A 

 translation of the Latin description is here included for 

 the benefit of students in this country. 



" Half the size of Dictyophara panno7tica Creuz., the 

 head small, of a lurid color, drawn out into a slender, 

 upturned stylus a little longer than half the length of the 

 body, with the apex truncated. Thorax lurid, tricarinate, 

 marked with two fuscous points. Underside of body and 

 the legs lurid 3''ellowish. Hemelytra a little longer than 

 the body, lurid, with white and black points, the apical 

 margin variegated with fuscous. Wings diaphanous. 

 Posterior tibiae having numerous spines." 



"Inhabits North America, Kentucky." 



The small size of this insect, its pattern of marking, 

 taken Vv'ith the absence of ornamentation on the head, 

 legs, etc., exclude this species from agreement with either 

 of the foregoing. 



