264 HEMIPTEBA OF JAPAN— VELER. 



Division PACHYGRONTHIXA. 

 PACHYGRONTHA SIMILIS, new species. 



J 'ale dusky testaceous, punctate with dark brown, more or less suf- 

 fused wiLli brown on the anterior portion of the pnmotum. All the 

 nmrgins of the pronotuni and the middle line which is abbreviated and 

 more slender behind, an oblong diagonal spot in each basal angle and 

 the carina of the apex of scutelhim, exterior border of corium, and of 

 the abdomen ivory yellow. Antennie as long as the head, pronotum 

 and corium united, honey yellow, minutely imnctate with brown, the 

 apex of the basal joint clavate and made black by the aggregation of 

 punctures, second and tliird joints short, the third a little shorter, 

 together about equal to the basal, the third nigro-piceous except the 

 base, the fourth much shorter, nigro i)iceous. Head roughly punctate 

 with piceous in longitudinal series, the middle line and dei)ressed 

 border near the eyes pale and smooth, pubescence minute; rostrum 

 mostly piceous, pale at base, reaching behind the anterior cox.e; 

 throat unevenly granulate and punctate with piceous. Pronotum long, 

 coarsely i)unctate with dark brown in transverse series, branded with 

 piceous each side of the callous middle line, suture separating the lobes 

 not deeply impressed, placed a little farther back and more distinct in 

 the males, lateral margin retlexed, callous, the humeri with a piceous 

 oblong callosity next the border; pro])leura evenly punctate with pic- 

 eous, meso and meta pleura darker and more densely imnctate. Ante- 

 rior femora very thick, appearing piceous by reason of the luimerous 

 blackish i)unctures, armed with four larger teeth tii)ped with black 

 and numerous smaller black teeth between them, anterior tibia' short, 

 curved, lineated with black i)unctures, the other femora and tibiic 

 punctate with black, tijis of tarsal joints piceous. Corium with a 

 broad pale border, the costal area with one complete series and another 

 half series of brown punctures, the tip linearly callous, pale, and hav- 

 ing a minute brown dot at tip, and a larger one next the inner angle of 

 membrane and a piceous thick line at tip of clavus, surface of both 

 corium and clavus remotely punctate with brown in lines. Venter 

 opaque, marked with a broad bhick vitta each side and with some 

 spots along the middle and at tij). 



Length to tip of abdomen, 7-8 mm.; width of i)ronotum, 1^2 mm. 



Tyi?e.— Ko. 3100, U.S.N.M. 



PACHYGRONTHA ANTENNATA, Uhler. 

 Pachinirontliu ttutennatu, Uiii.Ei;, Proc. Acad. Pbila., 18()(), j). 229. 

 Six specimens were secured for the collection. 



Division HKTEROGASTRINA. 

 CHAULIOPS FALLAX, Scott. 

 ChauUopH f alias, Scott, Ann. Maj;. Nat. Hist.. 1874, ]). 428. 

 Three specimens of this peculiar si>ecies were collected. 



