1^ G 6 HEM IP TEBA F J. I PA X— FEL PP. 



continued to tip of scutelluni. Hemelytra gradually narrowing poste- 

 riorly, oval, witli small meshes on tlie basal and discoidal areas and 

 larger ones on the lateral areas and membrane; discoidal (ield a little 

 dusky, so also the thick median vein and a (quadrate si)ot before the 

 middle of costal area; veins of mend)rane more or less dusky a])ically, 

 about three to four series of meshes to the costal area. Legs testaceous, 

 the tarsi black at tip. Abdomen blackish. 



Length to end of wing covers, 3.^ mm.; Avidth across middle of pro- 

 notum and the expansions, 1.^ mm.; -width of base of wing-covers, 

 li mm. 



'n/pc—yo. 3117, r.s.x.]\r. 



Only two specimens of this interesting species occur in tliis collection. 



Family CAPSID.E. 

 LYGUS SIMPLUS, new species. 



Flavo-testaceous, polished, tinged with ocherous and rufous, form of 

 L. nallei, Signoret, coarsely punctate with brown over most of the 

 upper surface. Head highly polished, moderately short, ocherous, ver- 

 tex convex, compressed each side at base and on the middle, the occij)- 

 ital collar black, eyes large, extending beyond the width of prouotum; 

 face directed obli(]uely, cheeks narrow, testaceous, tylus short, narrow, 

 prominent; rostrum reaching to the middle cox;e, testaceous, darker 

 at tip; antenn;e a little longer than the coriaceous part of the heme- 

 lytra, mostly blackish brown, with the second joint i)aler, and the basal 

 joint rufoflavous, th(^ second joint longer than the two apical ones 

 united, pale at base, a little thickened apically, the third a little longer 

 tlian the fourth, both filiform. Pronotum strongly convex, coarsely 

 and not closely punctate, a little wider than long, the collum white, 

 lateral margins smooth, curved, ])rqjccting over the large ])leural daps, 

 the callosities of anterior lobe united into a prominent, polished tumid- 

 ity of a ])iceous color, j)osterior margin depressed, sinuated against the 

 base of scutellum, then curved each side, the edge pale and before it a 

 fuscous, submarginal, iiu'omplete line; pleural ])ieces bordered with 

 white; sternum fuscous. Legs tinged with rufous, the tibia' paler, 

 piceous at apex and at end of tarsi. Scutellum convex, highly pol- 

 ished, i)ale rufocastaneous, sparsely puiuttate, testa(;eous at tip and on 

 the lateral edges, Cla vus tinged with fuscous, corium obsoletely i)unc- 

 tate on the disk, tinged with fuscous toward the inner and outer bor- 

 ders and on the costal edge; membrane tinged with l)rown, and with a 

 pale spot next the cuneous. Venter rufotlavous, a little i)iceous near 

 the apex. 



Length to end of venter, C> mm.; width of pronotum. 2.\ mm. 



7;,/^>e.—>(). 311(5, IT. S.N. M. 



Two specimens of this insect are i)rcscnt in the ct)llection. 



