330 HETEROPTEROUS HEMIPTERA. 



6. L. DISCONOTUS. — Blackisli : third joint of tlie antennae 

 much shorter than the fourth : hemelytra dull whitish. 



Inhabits Missouri. 



Body blackish, punctured, rather wider behind : head a little 

 convex : antennae first and second joints yellowish : third equal to 

 the first; fourth joint almost double the length of the third, and 

 as long or rather longer than the second ; thorax very slightly 

 contracted each side of the middle : basal half and anterior edge 

 piceous ; hemelytra dull yellowish-white, punctured ; membrane 

 on the disc brown ; tip wide and obtusely rounded : feet whitish ; 

 thighs honey-yellow, anterior pair a little more dilated ; postpectus 

 with a pure white posterior margin. 



Length to tip of hemelytra less than three-twentieths of an 

 inch. 



7. L. GEMINATUS. — Hemelytra with two small central spots, 

 and four on the posterior edge of the membrane. 



Inhabits Indiana and Missouri. 



Body dull greenish-yellow ; head dull fulvous, blackish each side 

 behind: antennae obscure rufous; first joint, incisures and [775] 

 terminal joint black : rostrum extending a little beyond the origin 

 of the posterior feet : thorax with the transverse impression rather 

 deep and blackish : scutel dull fulvous, blackish on the basal 

 margin : hemelytra on the corium tinged with yellowish, almost 

 hyaline, and having on the middle two approximate, abbreviated 

 fuscous lines and on the posterior edge four or three fuscous, 

 small dots ; membrane pellucid : beneath black-piceous ; a white 

 line over the insertion of the posterior pairs of feet, and a honey- 

 yellow line over the anterior pair : feet honey-yellow, immacu- 

 late ; tarsi blackish. 



Length three-twentieths of an inch. 



Nuttall presented to me an individual which he took in Mis- 

 souri, and I obtained others in this State. 



8. L. SCOLOPAX. — Hemelytra with a rufous tip of the corium; 

 rostrum extending to the middle of the venter. 



Inhabits Missouri and Indiana. 



Body yellowish, inclining on the head and scutel to obscure 

 fulvous : punctured : head, punctures obsolete, tip a little longer 

 than the basal joint of the antennae ; antennae black ; second 



