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CALOCORIS VARIABILIS, new species. 



Closely related to C. setieornis, Illiger, of Europe. Oval, moderately 

 robust, polished, not distinctly ))unctate, most specimens deep black, 

 with a yellow forked streak running- from base over most of the clavus, 

 the other limb extending along the costa until it connects with the 

 yellow or orange cuneus. Head black, mostly polished, with a short 

 neck behind the eyes, which are sometimes marked with a slender 

 yellow band, front strongly convex, the middle sometimes with a round 

 greenish spot, space beneath the antenn;e often pale; eyes brown, 

 almost orbicular; rostrum piceous black, slender beyond the basal 

 joint, reaching behind the middle coxiie; antenna^ moderately thick, 

 black, longer than the entire body and hemelytra united, the second 

 and third joints very long, the second about as long as the clavus, the 

 third a little shorter, the fourth much shorter. Pronotum polished, a 

 little scabrous, with a few obsolete punctures near the suture, middle 

 of the suture with a fulvous dot, lower margin of the propleura whitish, 

 humeri rounded, mesopleura slenderly nnirgined with white, the meta- 

 l)leura with a white triangular spot above the coxa. Legs black or 

 obscure yellow, the tibia^ often obscure yellow with black spines, while 

 the femora are black. Scutellum sometimes tipped with yellow. 

 Hemelytra minutely pubescent, membrane smoky black. Venter pitch 

 black. 



Length to tip of abdomen, 6-7h mm. Width of pronotum, 2i-3 mm. 



Tijpe.—^o. 3102, U.S.N.M. 



Ten specimens were present in the collection. The female is some- 

 times uniformly black above and mostly so beneath. A variety has the 

 legs pale fulvous and the antenna^ fulvous, with the bases of the two 

 apical joints white. A male is yellow, with two black dots on the pro- 

 notum and black spots on the tergum, while the antennae are yellow, 

 and the legs reddish yellow. 



DICYPHUS LAUTUS, new species. 



Elongate, subcylindrical, moderately robust, ivory whitish or pale 

 yellow. Head suborbicnlar, with a contracted neck, which is scarcely 

 longer than the eyes, ami sometimes pale testaceous; vertex black at 

 bnse, bonnded in front by a yellow band; face dusky, bordered all 

 iironnd with black or brown ; rostrum yellow, black at base, reaching 

 t ) the posterior coxa^; antenn;c long and slender, black, the basal joint 

 rufopiceous, whitish at base, hardly half as long as the second, the 

 second gradually thickening in the direction of the apex, the third 

 abruptly slender, pale at base, much longer than the apical one; pro- 

 notum dull yellow, the anterior lobe very short and nairow, behind the 

 collum transversely dusky and of the same color below; posterior lobe 

 very convex, with a broad black curved submarginal spot, which is 



