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No personal slight whatever is intended thereby, and not a trace of 

 malice or resentment on the part of the writer colors any statement 

 made herein. But I conceive that these criticisms would much better 

 be said now, while the subject of them is present to explain this 

 position, than in some distant future, when time shall have sealed his 

 lips and stayed his busy pen forever. His fine command of English 

 and evident scholarship will then avail him nothing, if some surviv- 

 ing, or perhaps yet unborn student rise up and brand his work 

 destructive. 



NEW HEMIPTERA-HETEROPTERA, WITH COM- 

 MENTS UPON THE DISTRIBUTION OF 

 CERTAIN KNOWN SPECIES. 



H. G. Barber, 

 RoSELLE Park, N. J. 



Chlorocoris flaviviridis new species. 



Color ycIlowish-grcen, subshining, coarsely punctate. In shape long ovate; 

 measuring to the tip of the membrane about twice as long as the breadth of the 

 pronotum. Head as long as the width across the eyes, the lateral lobes rounded 

 at their apices, a trifle longer than the tylus but not contiguous before it, the 

 surface of lateral lobes basally, base of tylus and vertex of head transversely 

 wrinkled, in front of each ocellus, next the eyes, is a decolorous smooth patch ; 

 lateral margins of head lightly raised, smooth, pale and slightly concave a 

 short distance before the eyes. Antennre yellowish, sometimes tinted with 

 rosaceous basally, with the apical joints slightly embrowned ; the first joint 

 passing the apex of head, second, third and fourth joints subequal, fifth one 

 third shorter; beneath paler, almost impunctate but transversely wrinkled. 

 Rostrum reaching the middle of the third ventral segment, pale with apex in- 

 fuscated. Pronotum concolorous, lateral margins straight, anteriorly finely 

 serrate, narrowly yellowish, becoming ruby-red posteriorly, the humeri bright 

 red, prominently acute but not spinosc ; the general paler surface is provided 

 with coarse dark green punctures, appearing somewhat rugulose posteriorly ; 

 through the middle is a faint longitudinal ridge, evanescent through the rugu- 

 lose portion ; just within the lateral margins is a series of scattered black 

 punctures which are sharply defined. Scutellum concolorous, coarsely punctate 

 and rugulose on a pale background, throughout its length a pale median stripe 

 becoming callosed posterior to the middle and sometimes tinted with red, apex 

 narrow, callosed. Corium rather coarsely punctate, the punctures becoming 

 finer and more closely set towards the apex, the costal margin in its basal half 



