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Observations on Capsidae with descriptions of new species. 



By P. R. Uhier. 

 (No. 4.) 



Div. BRYOCORARIA. 



ECCRITOTARSUS Stal. 



E. elegans, new sp. 



Elliptical with the hemelytra parallel-sided, the pronotum transverse and steeply 

 sloping in front, the upper surface opaque, strongly pilose. General color fuscous, 

 I. legs, antenna', base of rostrum, most of the pectoral and ventral surfaces, 

 and the collar of the pronotum pale rufous. Head clothed with minute pubescence, 

 vertex very short, transverse almost horizontal, not as wide as the apex of the prono- 

 tum, the eyes small, round, prominent. Face nearly vertical, the tylus prominent. 

 the rostrum reaching to the posterior coxa, fuscous from beyond the base to the tip. 

 Antenna thick, as lung as the hemelytra, the basal joint about as long as the head, 

 the second equally stout, curved, as long as the pronotum and head united, the third 

 slender, nearly as long as the second, the fourth equally slender, a little longer than 

 the basal one. Pronotum transverse, gently arched transversely, a little convex, fus- 

 cous, clothed with fuscous erect pubescence; the collum not apparantly pubescent, 

 rufous, acutely prominent, connected on the middle with a raised slender line that 

 run.-- back to base, an impressed transverse line bounding the base of the anterior 

 lobe: lateral margin sinuated, at the humere prominent, with the angles subacuminate. 

 Scutellum nearly equilateral, almost flat, rufous, somewhat indented near the middle. 

 long, rufous sometimes piceous on the tarsi and end of tibia; the posterior pair 

 irerj long, with the femora incurved, but not clavate. Hemelytra testaceous, or whit- 

 ish, clothed with erect slender, gray pubescence; the clavus and inner margin 

 of the curiam marked with fuscous, together forming a large suboval spot which ex- 

 tend- to behind the middle of the corium; tip of corium crossed by a band of the 

 same color, and the apex of the cuneus is also fuscous; membrane fuscous or black. 

 Venters short and broad, blunt at tip, but a little more than one half as long as the 

 tra, rufous marked with black, or sometimes entirely black, or fuscous. 



Length to tip of venter O i| — 2 millims, q i* millims, to tip of membrane 

 2 J. 1 ,, 2 millims. 



This beautiful little insect has been collected in Central Texas by Mr. 

 Belfrage; in Riley Count}', Kansas, by Prof. Poponoe, and in Illinois by 

 Robert Kennicott and Prof. Forbes. A specimen from Los Angeles, Cal., 

 is in the U. S. National Museum. As is the case in many .genera of the 

 Capsidce, the head of the male is shorter, the vertex more depressed, and 

 the face less convex than in the female. 



It should be noticed that the genus Sixeonotus Renter is preoccupied 

 by Pycnoderes Guerin ; the latter name having priority by many years over 

 the former. 



ENTOMOLOGICA &MEBICANA. Vol.. 111. 22 NoVEMBUB 1887. 



