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Mr. William T. Davis at Lakehurst, N. J., July ii, and one female 

 in the collection of Mr. Nathan Banks from Black Momitain, N. C, 

 May. The specimens from Falls City, Nebr., were collected under 

 old railroad ties which had been lying along the grassy embankment 

 of the road for three or four weeks, beneath which the vegetation 

 was not yet dead. A few of the specimens are much darker, verg- 

 ing into piceous. The two females from Lakehurst, N. J., are larger 

 an'd paler than the Nebraska and Black Mountain ones, with the 

 antennjE and legs not infuscated. I have named this species for 

 my friend Professor Lawrence Bruner, State Entomologist of Ne- 

 braska, to whom I am much indebted for past favors. 



ESURIS Stal. 



As this genus is new to the United States, it may be well to give 

 its chief diagnostic characters, which are as follows: species small, 

 having the hemelytra incomplete and destitute of a membrane, with 

 the clavus and corium connate. Anterior femora incrassate and armed 

 beneath with a few small teeth. Body sparsely setose. Ocelli absent. 



This genus was erected by Stal (Enum. Hem., IV, 164, 1874) to 

 include his formerly described Rhyparochromns tcrgina from Brazil, 

 since which time Distant (Biol. Cent. Am. Rhynch., I, 410, 1893) has 

 described a species, E. purpurata, from Guatemala, but the descrip- 

 tion is so incomplete that it will be difficult to fix it without an exami- 

 nation of the type. 



Esuris castanea, new species. 



Castaneous, rather thickly grayish hirsute, subshining, with posterior mar- 

 gin of pronotum and corium paler. Membrane entirely missing. No veins on 

 the corium and clavus not differentiated. Head, pronotum and corium trans- 



versely convex. 



Head large not at all exserted. about as wide as the pronotum at posterior 

 margin, closely and coarsely punctured. Fore part of head very declivous, 

 with the tylus almost vertical. Two long seta; are placed next the eyes on the 

 lateral margins of head. Antenns pale ochraceous, unicolorous, short setose, 

 tasal joint attaining apex of head, second and fourth subequal. third a trifle 

 shorter. First joint of rostrum nearly reaching base of head. Pronotum with- 

 out a collar, anterior margin straight, the whole surface closely and coarsely 

 punctate, finely grayish hirsute ; the narrow posterior margin pale and almost 

 straight across. The pronotum is a trifle wider than long and is widest one 

 third of its length from the anterior margin, slightly narrowing posteriorly 

 to be ohtusely and very shallowly constricted one sixth its length from the 



