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borders of each segment ; there is also a rounded black spot in tlie 

 middle of the last four ventral segments, and the disk of the 

 venter is remotely punctured witli fuscous without tlie papillate- 

 sculpture of the imarjo. 



To the many specimens collected at the above locality is appended 

 a label to the effect that this species is " living at the base of tlie 

 stalks and amongst ' Porcui)ine g)'ass ' {Triodut pinujtnx).'" 



Fam. COKEIDAE. 

 17. Mums pitoFANA, Falir. 



Sullivan Creek. 

 Palm Creek. 



18. A.MOHIiUS ALTEHNATUS, Dc 



19. AULACOSTKRNUM PUNCTIPKS, Stlil. 



Illaia, James Range. 



20. LePTOCORIS MITELLATUS, n. sp. 



Red, pronotum rarely tinged with ochraceous, a large quadrate 

 median spot on vertex more or less extended forwards over cly})eus 

 and juga, the pronotal calli, scutellum, a lai-ge transverse spot in 

 anterior part of pleurae, two ventral patches, one on each side. 

 extended from base of fourth to near middle of sixth segment and 

 connected with each other along apical margin of foui-tii and fifth 

 segments, antennae, rostrum, and legs black, hemelytra fuscous, 

 clavus and corium more oi- less tinted with reddish and with a 

 prominent oblicpiely tiansverse red spot occupying apex of endo- 

 corium and extended a little over interior basal angle of membrane, 

 bucculae, acetabula, anterior margin of prosternum, sjiiracles. and 

 (narrowly and more or less distinctly) posterior margin of pleurae 

 and of ventral segments and lateral margins of abdomen whitish. 

 Head with the juga slightly shorter than the clypeus and apically 

 not raised above it, the low and blunt oblique anteoculai- elevations 

 and the postocular calli with short and rather stiff black hairs, 

 rostrum somewdiat variable in length, reaching base of second or 

 third ventral segment. Pronotum thickly but extremely finely 

 subrugulosely punctulate, darkly pilose at the lateral margins and 

 sparsely but more longly so on the collar which is but slightly 

 convex, broader in the middle than at tlie sides, and not i-aised 

 above the level of the calli, the disk with a median keel lieginning 

 between the calli and evanescent toward the middle or base, tlie 

 lateral margins straight or slightly sinuate before middle, sub- 



