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the coriurn dusky ou tlie disk and with a large dusky patch near the 

 tip; membrane longer than the abdomen, clouded with dusky. Terguni 

 blackish ou the disk, pale ou the connexivum; venter testaceous. 



Length to tip of abdomen, 5i-G mm; width of pronotum, \^ mm. 



Type.—^o. 3112, U.S.X.M. 



Only three specimens of this s])ecies were secured. 



Family KEDUVIID.E. 

 PTILOCERUS IMMITIS, new species. 



Form of and closely related to P.fiiseus, Gray; dull pale yellowish 

 brown tiuged with fuscous; densely hairy; tip of clavus with a black 

 dot, and base of cuneus with an oblong black spot, outer border behind 

 this spot yellow; membrane large and soot-black. Hairs of autennte 

 long and slender, gradually growing shorter toward the tip. 



Length to tip of venter, G mm.; width of i^romotum, 2 mm. 



Typ€.—:so. 3115, U.S.N.M. 



Two sijecimens of this peculiar insect are in the collection. 



VELINUS NODIPES, Uhler. 

 reVniiis nodipeii, Uhler, Proc. Acad. Phila., 1860, p. 230. 



Eight adult ai'd three undeveloped specimens are in the collection. 



HARPACTOR ORNATUS. new species. 



Jet black, polished, robust, sparsely hoary i)ubescent. Head mod- 

 erately short, a little inflated behind the eyes, the occipital jjortiou 

 forming a short neck, space between the ocelli yellow and sunken, face 

 and clypeus tapering auteriorly, together a very little longer than the 

 division behind the eyes; antennae black, slender, as long as the abdo- 

 men and posterior lobe of pronotum: rostrum thick, black, reaching 

 almost to the anterior coxie. Pronotum broad, tlie lateral margins of 

 posterior lobe broadly reflexed, rufous, the posterior margin narrowly 

 rutbus, middle line broadly grooved, the anterior lobe deeply excavated, 

 ridges each side high and curved; supra-coxal border above the fore 

 legs ivory yellow, meso-pleural border narrowly yellow. Legs black, 

 the femora thick and somewhat knobby. Scutellum polished like the 

 pronotum, deej)ly sunken at base. Henielytra entirely deep black, the 

 membrane barely longer than the abdomen. Outer border of the abdo- 

 men broadly rufous, the remaining surface black, highly polished. 



Length to tip of abdomen, 13-14 mm.; width of pronotum, 4 mm. 



Type.—So. 3107, U.S.N.M. 



Four si^ecimens of this species are in the collection The male is a 

 little smaller than the female, has the posterior red border of the pro- 

 notum wider, and the same color of the connexivum waved ou the 

 inner margin. 



