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Svilirainily G-oisrocE;Ri]sr^v. 

 CLETUS BIPUNCTATUS, Herrich-SchaefFer. 

 Chins ]>h)nii(ialiis, Hkruich-Sch.-effeh, Wanz. lusekteii., V, VII, ]>. 9, fig. 566. 

 Eiu^liteeu si)eciuieus were secured for this collection. 



PLINACHTUS SIMILIS, new species. 



Kust brown, iufuscated above, fulvous beneath, form similar to 

 Fkana ((jricali.s, Dallas, but with almost rectangular, acute, slightly 

 recurved humeral angles. Head black and densely granulated above, 

 fulvous on the sides and beneath, coarsely, remotely punctate, middle 

 line obsoletely cariuate, face a little longer than the vertex behind the 

 eyes, moderately tapering anteriorly, indented each side next the anten- 

 niferous lobes, tylus narrow, triangularly widened at base, a little longer 

 than the lateral lobes, and separated Irom these lobes by a wide deep 

 suture; rostrum stout, iufuscated, reaching behind the anterior coxae; 

 antenn;^ stout, scabrous, black, as long as the head, i)ronotum and 

 clavus united, the basal joint long and stouter than the second, the 

 second longer, as long as the pronotum, the third a little shorter than 

 the basal, the fourth thicker, acute at base and tip, a little shorter than 

 the third. Pronotum closely granulate with black in transverse series, 

 the surface steeply sloping toward the head, the lateral margins almost 

 directly diagonal, behind the humeri bluntly diagonal, the posterior 

 margin sinuate and protracted like a flap over the base of the scutel- 

 lum, and with a transverse faint carina in advance of the basal margin. 

 Scutellum i^unctate with black in transverse broken lines. Legs gran- 

 ulated and scabrous over most of the surface, black, femora yellow 

 beneath for about two-thirds of the length from base. Hemelytra rust- 

 brown, si)read with sunken black punctures, the embolium and most of 

 the costal margin fulvous ; membrane dark brown, paler at base. Stig- 

 matal orifices black; connexivum interrupted above with broad black 

 bands. 



Length to end of abdomen, 14^ mm.; width between tlie humeral 

 angles, G mm. 



Type.— 1^0. 3104, U.S.N.M. 



Only one specimen of this insect was secured. It is a male, and 

 bears some resemblance to the common Anasa tristis, DeGeer, of North 

 America. 



SubfaiTiily COTllZTNJ^. 

 CORIZUS HYALINUS, Fabricius. 

 Coriziis hyalinus, F'abricus, Ent. Syst., IV, p. 168. 



Thirteen specimens of this genus are in the collection, one form of 

 which appears to be a new species. Tbis is, however, too much altered 

 for satisfactory description. 



