272 HEMfPTERA OF .fJPJX—rHLER. 



pale. Wing-covers pale inwardly, the membrane correspondingly pale 

 and with dark veins, tlie middle loiigitndinal vein thick, prominent, 

 pale, darker toward the tip, tlie costal and vein bounding- the inner 

 side of costa thick, dark, pale at base. Connexivnm pale, marked 

 before the tip with a luscous streak and next the tip with a sindlar 

 curved streak; sides of venter with pale and brown alternating lines 

 whicli are less distinct toward the disk. 



Length to tip of abdomen, 10-11 mm.; width of i)r()notum, L*-2.] mm. 



'/'^^,t'.— No. 3108, r.S.X.M. 



A male and female are the only specimens of this form present in 

 the collection. This insect deserves special attention from the unusual 

 number of attachments to the several i)ai ts of its organs. It should 

 be studied in its ditt'erent stages to ascertain the meaning of the 

 peculiar elements of structure which appear in the adult form. 



Subfamily KlVIESIlSrA. 

 ORTHUNGA BIVITTATA. new species. 



Pale yellowish testaceous with an ashy tinge, long and more robust 

 than Sfenolcmus which it much resembles. Head highly polished and 

 brown between the eyes, anterior lobe short, prominently convex, eyes 

 brown, posterior lobe longer, gradually contracting posteriorly ; clypeus 

 narrow, i)ale testaceous; antenn.e setaceous, much longer than the 

 body, tinged with brown; rostrum reaching behind fore coxa*, thick on 

 the two basal joints, both of these brownish and paler on the ends, the 

 second shorter than the basal, swollen, the third abruptly more slender, 

 acute. Pronotum bicampanulate, emarginate, and inflated anteriorlj^ 

 constricted in the middle, more than twice as long as the head, brown- 

 ish, polished, lineated with two whitish stripes which run parallel with 

 the varying outline of the two lobes and connected on the front margin 

 of the anterior lobe by a transverse whitish band, the posterior lobe 

 much wider than the anterior one, and with the humeral angles tumidly 

 prominent, lateral margins also whitish. Posterior pairs of legs long, 

 very slender, pubescent, the femora twice banded with brown, the 

 tibia' paler at base, fore legs short, the femora subfusiform, armed 

 beneath with slender spines tipped with black coxa? with two dusky 

 bands. Scutellum pale brownish, the basal lobe tumido-convex. 

 Wing-covers i)ellicular, whitish translucent, widening and curving 

 posteriorly, with brown veins. Abdomen dusky, i)ubescent, snbcylin- 

 drical and thicker posteriorly. 



Length to end of abdomen, 10.] mm.; to tip of wing-cover, 17i mm.; 

 width of base of pronotum, 2 mm. 



Ti/pe.—'So. 3110, IT.S.N.iM. 



Only one specimen of this spider-resembling insect is present in tlie 

 collection. 



