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membranous tip, black, the latter edged with piceous : beneath 

 white, incisures sanguineous : feet piceous black : thighs san- 

 guineous, anterior pair two spined near the tip. 



Length over two-fifths of an inch. 



Var. a. Hemelytra black, with a pale yellowish lateral margin. 



Var. b. Hemelytra black, exterior and terminal margins of the 

 corium pale yellowish. 



The rostrum extends beyond the base of the posterior feet. 



4. C RAPIDUS. — Reddish brown ; hemelytra with a yellowish 

 margin. 



Inhabits Indiana. 



Body dull reddish brown : head rufous : antennae black ; first 

 joint nearly half as long as the third, [second joint : Harris MS.] 

 white on the basal half, hardly perceptibly larger at tip than at 

 base : thii-d joint not much shorter than the second, and with 

 the last white at base : thorax pale yellow; anterior margin [7841 

 rufous ; a black abbreviated band behind the middle : hemelytra, 

 corium at tip with a bright red almost sanguineous triangular spot : 

 beneath rufous: venter dusky on the disk; tibiaB pale yellowish. 



Length to tip of the hemelytra three-tenths of an inch. 



5. C. 4-viTTATUs. — Yellow with four black vittae. 

 Inhabits United States. 



Body bright yellow : head tinged with fulvous : antennas black : 

 thorax tinged with fulvous before : four black vittae not reach- 

 ing the anterior margin, the lateral ones marginal and more 

 slender : scutel with a black spot each side at base : hemelytra 

 with two blackish vittae on each, the exterior one having a black 

 annulated dot at tip : membrane blackish, with a dull yellowish 

 arc. 



Length to tip of hemelytra three-tenths of an inch. 



Inhabits a considerable part of the Union. I have taken it 

 in the North-west Territory, Pennsylvania, Indiana and Missouri, 

 and Mr. Oemler sent me a specimen from Georgia. It is common. 

 Can it be the Lyyseus lincatus F. Syst. Rhyng. p. 234 ? 



6. C. DiSLOCATUS. — Pale rufous, with two black vittse dislo- 

 cated on the hemelytra. 



Inhabits Pennsylvania. 



Body pale rufous or somewhat fulvous : head with a black 



