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straight, granulate and provided with a few black blunt spines or tubercles. 

 The whole surface roughly punctured and granulated, with a few scattered 

 black tubercles. In the middle is an obsolete longitudinal pale ridge, evanescent 

 anteriorly. Humeri not prominent, rounded. Scutellum roughly granular, sur- 

 face somewhat infuscated with blunt apex, obsolete median ridge and sides 

 anteriorly paler. Corium concolorous, with close set coarse punctures or pits 

 between the prominently raised nervures which are mottled with fuscous. 

 Lateral margins much arcuated. Tip of pale membrane not reaching apex of 

 abdomen, not extended beyond middle of sixth abdominal segment, with 

 numerous fine brownish irregular, branching, waving veins. Connexivum 

 finely granulated, pale at the incisures, variegated with fuscous between. 

 Sternum roughly punctured with a small, circular black spot in the middle of 

 each of the sternal pieces. Venter finely punctured, variegated with fuscous, 

 these punctures set with fine pale hairs, making the whole surface appear hir- 

 sute. Legs granulated and hirsute, variegated with fuscous, leaving a broad 

 pale band near middle of all the tibise. First segment of tarsi pale. Length 

 of 5. 7~8 mm. 



Described from two females collected by Mr. Cbarles Schaeffer at 

 Brownsville, Texas, for the Brooklyn Museum, where the type is 

 now placed. This species is more closely related to S. uhlcri Dist. 

 from which it can readily be distinguished by its shorter hemelytra, 

 the smaller terminal joint of the antennae, longer rostrum and its 

 longer and narrower pronotum. From S. sccundarius Uhl. it is at 

 once separable by the difference in the fourth antennal joint which 

 in that species is short and not as wide as the third joint. 



Synopsis of Species. 



Fourth joint of antennae less than one half the length and not wider than the 



third joint sccundarius Uhl. 



Fourth joint of antennae much wider than the third joint. 



Fourth joint of antennae pyriform ; membrane of hemelytra not reaching 



apex of abdomen; pronotum much wider than long. . . .granulosus n. sp. 



Fourth joint of antennae long, ovate, membrane of hemelytra reaching apex 



of abdomen ; pronotum about as wide as long nlileri Dist. 



Ceraleptus pacificus new species. 



Closely related to C. americanus Stal., but smaller and less infuscated. 

 Rusty yellowish gray in color. Head about as long as wide, generally some- 

 what infuscated and furnished with three, sometimes obsolete, stripes ar- 

 ranged as follows : a median one running from near base of head to apex of 

 tylus and one on each side running from the base of head obliquely to the 

 eyes, thence anteriorly, straight to the tip of the antenniferous tubercles. 

 Lateral margins of head to tip of antenniferous tubercles either slightly con- 

 verging or subparallel, not expanded anteriorly as in americanus. Apex of 



