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DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME NEW OR UNFAMILIAR 

 NORTH AMERICAN HEMIPTERA. 



BY EDWARD P. VAN DUZEE. 

 NEOPHARNUS n. gen. 



Closely allied to Pharnus but differing principally in hav- 

 ing the head shorter, the cheeks broader, rounded, approach- 

 ing and almost contiguous at apex above and beyond the 

 tip of the narrow tylus. Antennae longer than in Pharnus, 

 the joints regularly increasing in length. Bucculae elevated 

 anteriorly, its angle subacute and a little advanced, post- 

 eriorly becoming evanescent opposite the middle of the eye. 

 Rostrum attaining the apex of the third ventral segment, 

 first joint but little surpassing the base of the head. Pro- 

 notum broader than in Pharnus, the lateral angles produced 

 in a rounded subnodular lobe directed outwardly; latero- 

 anterior margins narrowly foliaceous-expanded and eroded 

 and armed with a few irregular tentacular teeth. Scutellum 

 and elytra as in Pharnus. Abdomen broad, the connexivum 

 expanded with the apical angles of the segments prominent. 

 Venter with a broad flat carina in a wide shallow depression. 

 Orifices produced in a straight sulcus which terminates ab- 

 bruptly about half way to the margin of the pectus. Meso- 

 sternum and tubercular base of the second ventral segment 

 as in Pharnus. Tibiae sulcate. 



This genus differs from Pharnus in having the cheeks pro- 

 duced and almost contiguous before the narrow tylus and 

 the margins of the pronotum laciniate. Type Neopharnus 

 fimbriatus. 



Neoplmrims fimbriatus n. sp. 



Broad oval with much the aspect of Pharnus inconspicuous H. S. 

 Whole surface punctate and hairy. Margins of the cheeks deeply 

 sinuated before the eyes then almost parallel to the rounded deeply 

 notched apex of the head ; the base of the tylus and a line next each 

 ocellus smooth. Pronotum quite strongly depressed before the middle ; 



TRANS. AM. ENT. SOC, XXXVI. (10) APRIL, 1910. 



