﻿art. 
  13 
  CRYPTOSTEMMATID 
  BUGS 
  McATEE 
  AND 
  MALLOCH 
  31 
  

  

  Holotype.—" 
  Brazil, 
  Blumenau, 
  D. 
  Reitter" 
  (Mus. 
  Helsingfors). 
  

  

  The 
  type 
  is 
  glued 
  to 
  a 
  card 
  so 
  closely 
  that 
  genital 
  and 
  other 
  ventral 
  

   characters 
  can 
  not 
  be 
  seen. 
  The 
  specimens 
  recorded 
  from 
  Grenada 
  

   under 
  this 
  name 
  by 
  Uhler 
  belong 
  to 
  the 
  genus 
  Schizoptera 
  and 
  are 
  

   described 
  under 
  the 
  specific 
  name 
  uhleri 
  in 
  this 
  paper, 
  page 
  19. 
  

  

  Genus 
  GLYPTOCOMBUS 
  Heidemann 
  11 
  

  

  Glyptocombus 
  saltator, 
  Heidemann, 
  Otto, 
  Proc. 
  Ent. 
  Soc. 
  Wash., 
  vol. 
  7, 
  No. 
  

   4, 
  pp. 
  192-194, 
  fig. 
  21A, 
  March 
  9, 
  1906 
  [Maryland]. 
  

  

  Front 
  nearly 
  vertical, 
  moderately 
  convex 
  between 
  eyes; 
  Ocelli 
  

   minute, 
  more 
  removed 
  (thrice 
  their 
  diameter) 
  from 
  eyes 
  than 
  in 
  the 
  

   other 
  genera 
  ; 
  pronotum 
  with 
  a 
  distinct 
  collum, 
  and 
  two 
  large 
  lateral 
  

   callosities 
  just 
  behind 
  it; 
  scutellum 
  depressed 
  basally, 
  elevated 
  and 
  

   rounded 
  apically; 
  ventral 
  view 
  of 
  head 
  as 
  in 
  figure 
  43; 
  fore 
  wings 
  

   each 
  with 
  a 
  depressed 
  area 
  along 
  commissure 
  so 
  that 
  they 
  may 
  

   overlap 
  either 
  way 
  (fig. 
  28) 
  ; 
  venation 
  as 
  in 
  figure 
  57; 
  male 
  with 
  five 
  

   distinct 
  ventral 
  segments, 
  the 
  apical 
  one 
  not 
  so 
  long 
  as 
  in 
  the 
  female 
  ; 
  

   hypopygium 
  reflexed 
  on 
  abdomen 
  beneath 
  the 
  very 
  convex 
  forewings 
  

   (fig. 
  29). 
  

  

  GLYPTOCOMBUS 
  SALTATOR 
  Heidemann 
  

  

  Glyptocombus 
  saltator, 
  Heidemann, 
  Otto, 
  Proc. 
  Ent. 
  Soc. 
  Wash., 
  vol. 
  7, 
  No. 
  

  

  4, 
  pp. 
  192-194, 
  fig. 
  21A, 
  March 
  9, 
  1906 
  [Maryland]. 
  

   Hypselosoma 
  saltator 
  Hobvath, 
  G., 
  Ann. 
  Mus. 
  Nat. 
  Hung., 
  vol. 
  6, 
  190S, 
  

  

  p. 
  565. 
  

  

  Black, 
  with 
  the 
  legs, 
  beak, 
  and 
  basal 
  segments 
  of 
  antennae 
  dusky 
  

   yellow 
  ; 
  entire 
  dorsal 
  surface 
  with 
  short, 
  decumbent 
  pale 
  hairs 
  ; 
  fore 
  

   wings 
  coarsely 
  punctured 
  between 
  the 
  veins. 
  Dorsal 
  and 
  lateral 
  views 
  

   as 
  in 
  figures 
  28 
  and 
  29. 
  Length, 
  1.2-1.5 
  mm. 
  

  

  Holotype. 
  — 
  Plummer 
  Island, 
  Md., 
  October 
  4, 
  1905, 
  D. 
  H. 
  Clemons; 
  

   paratype 
  same 
  data, 
  E. 
  A. 
  Schwarz 
  ; 
  other 
  specimens, 
  same 
  locality, 
  

   September 
  29, 
  1905, 
  D. 
  H. 
  Clemons 
  ; 
  October 
  14, 
  1906, 
  C. 
  H. 
  T. 
  Town- 
  

   send 
  ; 
  District 
  of 
  Columbia, 
  January 
  or 
  June, 
  1879, 
  Theo. 
  Pergande. 
  

  

  Genus 
  HYPSELOSOMA 
  Reuter 
  

  

  Hypselosoma 
  Retjter, 
  O. 
  M., 
  Monograph, 
  1891, 
  pp. 
  26-27, 
  fig. 
  16 
  [Mono- 
  

   basic, 
  genotype 
  H. 
  oculata, 
  new 
  species, 
  New 
  Caledonia]. 
  

  

  Characters 
  as 
  mentioned 
  in 
  key 
  ; 
  much 
  like 
  Glyptocombus 
  in 
  gen- 
  

   eral 
  appearance, 
  but 
  lacking 
  ocelli, 
  and 
  prontal 
  callosities 
  ; 
  and 
  with 
  

   the 
  scutellum 
  more 
  pointed. 
  Dorsal 
  view 
  as 
  in 
  figure 
  30. 
  

  

  u 
  See 
  remarks 
  under 
  Ommatides 
  Uhler, 
  p. 
  33. 
  

  

  