HETEROPTEROUS HEMIPTERA. 325 



obviously tinged with rufous ; feet paler ; rostrum hardly reach- 

 ing the intermediate coxae. 



Length less than three-twentieths of an inch. 



It may be distinguished by the remarkable obliquity of the 

 terminal line of the corium. 



COllEUS F. Latr. 



1. C. CONFLUENTUS [coNFLUENs]. — Pale brownish ; thorax 

 bilineate ; abdomenwith a spotted margin. 



Inhabits Mexico. 



Body depressed with numerous minute hairs, pale yellow- 

 brown : thorax with a transverse, slightly elevated line on the 

 posterior submargin; two broad black vittae, confluent before, 

 and suddenly narrowed on the posterior margin ; a black lateral 

 marginal vitta before ; posterior angles obtusely rounded : scutel 

 at base and an abbreviated line black : hemelytra immaculate ; 

 corium finely reticulate : abdomen dilated ; tei'gum on [ 770 ] 

 the margin alternating with blackish and yellowish : beneath 

 blockish varied with yellowish ; feet blackish ; knees and coxae 

 fulvous. 



Length three-fourths of an inch. 



This is a dilated and somewhat depressed species. 



2. C. DiFFUSUS. — Brownish ; abdomen dilated ; antennae and 

 feet blackish. 



Inhabits Georgia. 



Body depressed pale yellowish-brown ; with short hairs ; di- 

 lated : head unarmed, the middle of the tip not reaching the 

 base of the first joint of the antennae : antennae blackish, hairs 

 very obvious ; basal joint a little excurved ; second joint a little 

 longer than the third : thorax somewhat transversely punctured ; 

 lateral edge irregularly denticulated, particularly anteriorly; 

 posterior angles very obtusely rounded : scutel black in the 

 middle : hemelytra immaculate ; corium finely reticulate ; the 

 disks of the basal cellules blackish : abdomen dilated ; margin 

 elevated and with a series of black points on the edge ; feet 

 blackish piceous. 



Length seven-tenths of an inch. 



Resembles the confluenta nob., but is somewhat more dilated 



