340 HETEROPTEROUS HEMIPTERA. 



mouth and band on the vertex ; antennae black ; basal joint at 

 least half as long as the second; second joint distinctly larger 

 towards the tip, base white for a short space : thorax with two 

 black dilated lines from the middle to the base : scutel black 

 with a yellow vitta : hemelytra with a black vittae, widely dis- 

 located in the middle ; beneath piceous with a yellow line each 

 side : feet honey-yellow. 



Length to tip of hemelytra one-fourth of an inch. 



Occurred on the Verbascum tliaps^i^s L. 



7. C. OBLiNEATUS. — Thorax green with black lines; scutel 

 with a yellow V. 



Inhabits United States. 



Body greenish, sometimes tinged with brown or clouded with 

 obscure rufous, punctures distinct : head yellowish lineated with 

 reddish-brown : antennae first joint not half as long as the 

 [ 785 ] second ; thorax greenish, more or less lineated with black- 

 ish : scutel blackish, with a lateral edge, and a line in form of a 

 V, yellow : hemelytra with a pale spot at tip of the corium, at 

 the apex of which is a black point : membrane a little dusky, 

 with one or two whitish dots and arc : beneath dusky : venter 

 with a yellowish lateral vitta, or green with a black lateral vitta : 

 feet yellowish with two rufous annulations near the tip of the 

 thighs. 



Length to tip of hemelytra over one-fifth of an inch. 



This is a very common species and subject to vary considerably. 

 I have taken it in Pennsylvania, Indiana, North-west Territory, 

 and Missouri. 



The thigh-bands are somewhat like those of flavovariiis F. 

 It is it much like the Uneolaris Beauv. 



8. C. iNSiTivus. — Black; thorax and scutel fulvous. 

 Inhabits Indiana. 



Body velvet black; antennae, first joint half as long as the 

 second ; third joint over two-thirds the leugth of the second, 

 and not abruptly smaller ; second joint not larger at tip than at 

 base : thorax and scutel bright orange : pectus orange ; the an- 

 terior trochanters black like the remaining part of the inferior 

 surface and feet. 



Length to tip of hemelytra nearly seven-twentieths of an inch. 



Var. a. Head fulvous. 



