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sinuate. Scutellum elongate, finely and sparsely punctate, with incumbent 

 tawny hairs. Clavus with three irregular rows of punctures, middle row 

 abbreviated. Corium rather closely punctate with fuscous and clothed with 

 incumbent tawny hairs ; costal margins anteriorly pale and impunctate ; outer 

 lateral margins gently rounded. Membrane unicolorous, extended about to 

 apex of abdomen in macropterous form. Incrassate fore femur, along the outer 

 three-fourths, armed with five or six short teeth tipped with setae, between 

 which are several most minute teeth or serrations. Anterior tibia strongly 

 curved and expanded apically, there armed with a short tooth inwardly. Pos- 

 terior tibia with two rows of short setose bristles. Posterior tarsus with 

 basal segment only a trifle longer than second and third segments together. 

 Venter finely and closely punctate and clothed with incumbent whitish hairs. 

 Length ^ 4 mm. 



Type J*, Los Angeles Co., California, from the Coquillett collec- 

 tion in the U. S. N. M. 



This is a small species rather closely related to T. arcnarhis Linn., 

 from which it differs in being more narrow, in its clothing of fine 

 incumbent hairs, more slender antennae, with relatively shorter apical 

 segment, punctate head and relatively shorter basal segment of the 

 posterior tarsus. T. arenarms introduced from Europe is confined 

 to the mountainous parts of N. E. United States and Canada. The 

 following records for this species may be of interest: Hampton, N. H. 

 (collection of Nathan Banks), Casco Bay, Me., and Claremont, N. H. 

 (collected by G. P. Engelhardt), Top of Whiteface Mt., Adirondack 

 Mts., N. Y. (collected by Wm. T. Davis). The antenna and legs 

 vary in coloration as in the other species from ferrugineous to 

 piceous. 



Sphragisticus simulatus new species. 



Head, anterior lobe of pronotum, scutellum, fourth segment and some- 

 times apex of second and third segments of antenna and beneath black ; 

 lateral margins and posterior lobe of pronotum, hemielytra, acetabulae and 

 narrow posterior margin of metasternum, ochraceous ; first three segments of 

 antenna, rostrum and legs, ferrugineous ; posterior lobe of pronotum and 

 hemielytra profusely punctate with fuscous. 



Head transverse, across eyes a little narrower than anterior margin of 

 pronotum, impunctate at base, finely punctate in front. Antennae setose ; 

 basal segment short, little exceeding the apex of tylus, second segment one- 

 third longer than third, fourth segment a triflie longer than second. Pronotum, 

 with disk of black anterior lobe impunctate, finely punctate in front ; pale pos- 

 terior lobe punctate with fuscous ; lateral expanded pale margins provided 

 with a single row of punctures fitted with setose hairs some twelve in number, 



