202 long's second expedition. 



5. M. LATiPES. — Thorax with a compressed, porrect horn ; 

 body fuscous, immaculate. 



Inhabits United States. 



Body fuscous, punctured ; hemelytra paler ; thorax, horn ex- 

 tended in a line with the back and slightly decurved at tip ; but 

 in other respects resembling that of the preceding species j black 

 immaculate, posterior tip acute ; hemelytra paler than the thorax ; 

 nervures fuscous. 



Length equalling the preceding species. 



This species very closely resembles the hinotafa, but the horn 

 has a very different direction ; the back is destitute of spots, and 

 the hemelytra seem to be of a more membranaceous texture. 



[303] CERCOPIS Fabr. Germar. 



C. PARALLELLA. — Hemelytra with two whitish bands, which 

 are margined with dusky. 



Inhabits North-west Territory. 



Dusky yellowish-brown, punctured ; head densely punctured ; 

 dusky in the middle and near the eyes ; a glabrous somewhat 

 elevated longitudinal line ; length less than one-third of the 

 breadth ; thorax less densely punctured than the head ; angulated 

 at the middle of the anterior edge; a glabrous somewhat elevated 

 line from the anterior central angle, continued on the scutel ; 

 scutel acute, punctured at base, glabrous at tip ; hemelytra densely 

 punctured ; an oblique band from the tip of the scutel, attains 

 the exterior edge near the middle, it is whitish, margined with 

 dusky ; another oblique band parallel with the preceding and of 

 the same colors, is placed a short distance behind the middle ; 

 near the tip on the inner edge is a whitish spot ; pectus and feet 

 yellowish; tarsi, terminal joint dusky; tergum and venter 

 dusky, margined with sanguineous. 



Length two-fifths of an inch. 



This species varies a little in the shade of its coloring, and 

 when dark in color, the bands are almost obsolete. This species 

 also occurs in Missouri and Arkansa. 



