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hemelytra, membranaceous tip with a longitudinal reddish-brown 

 line. 



Length more than nine-twentieths of an inch. [328] 



Observed to be not uncommon in Missouri, as well as in Penn- 

 sylvania. 



2. K. SPissiPES. — Thorax and hemelytra light reddish-brown, 

 odged behind with white ; venter black, incisures whitish ; feet 

 thick. 



Inhabits Arkansa. 



Head black, posterior lobe with two tubercles : thorax light 

 reddish-brown; anterior lobe with dilated, black, oblique, or 

 arcuated lines, of which some are confluent ; posterior lobe hardly 

 more elevated than the preceding, with a black posterior submar- 

 gin and a white posterior margin : scutel black, margined with 

 white, and tipped by a few hairs : hemelytra, coriaceous portion 

 light reddish-brown, with a narrow whitish posterior margin, 

 membranaceous portion black or dark fuscous : feet thickened, 

 black, hairy : coxai bright red : abdomen black, margin and band 

 on each segment, white. 



Length thirteen-twentieths of an inch. 



The feet resembles those of E. crassipes Fabr., but it is a 

 very distinct species. 



CORIXA Geoff. 



1. C. INTERRUPTA. — With black and yellowish transverse 

 liueations ; feet pale ; face pale green. 



Inhabits Missouri. 



Head pale green : eyes large, triangular, reddish-brown : tho- 

 rax transversely lincated with about twenty-two blackish and 

 pale yellowish, equal, [329] alternate lines: hemelytra rounded 

 at tip, with alternate, numerous, abbreviated, transverse, black- 

 ish, and interrupted, pale yellowish lines; lines near the tip 

 much undulated and irregular; margin with about four obsolete 

 blackish spots, which appear to be still more faintly prolonged 

 into fasciae : epiplcura pale, destitute of the transverse lines, but 

 the obsolete spots are visible upon it; edge blackish: wings 

 white : feet pale : tergum black, margin pale : pectus and post- 

 pectus testaceous ; a large black spot between the anterior pairs 

 of feet. 



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