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is distinctly larger and darker than the species I identify as 

 unus. The smaller and paler form agrees best with Say's 

 description in having the antennae " honey yellow," the sides 

 of the pronotum distinctly arcuated with the carinate edges 

 a " little depressed and translucent," and the length "one 

 fifth of an inch," none of which characters would apply to 

 the larger and darker crassus. On the other hand the elytra 

 of the smaller species are distinctly paler on their base, a 

 character not mentioned by Say, but this is much less con- 

 spicuous in some examples, and need not invalidate the 

 determination. 



Phytocoris bipunctatus n. sp. 



Closely allied to antennalis and annulicornis ; smaller, proportiona- 

 tely narrower and darker than the former, with the sternum and base 

 of the femora pale sanguineous, and the elytra marked with a con- 

 spicuous round white dot near the apex of the corium. Length 4 A- mm. 



Head shorter than broad ; vertex, viewed from above, a little longer 

 than the breadth between the eyes, distinctly sulcate, slightly narrowed 

 anteriorly, sloping, and then abruptly deflexed at apex ; fusco-ferrugin- 

 ous ; clypeus prominent, black, with a large white discal spot ; throat 

 pale rufous. Rostrum attaining the base of the abdomen ; rufo-testace- 

 ous, piceous at tip. Antennas surpassing the tip of the elytra; first 

 joint a little shorter than the basal width of the pronotum, its thick- 

 ness two-thirds the superior width of the eye, minutely pubescent, 

 fusco-ferruginous, slightly varied with pale with a whitish annulus before 

 the middle and another near the apex; second joint slender, black, bi- 

 annulate with white, the basal annulus farther from the base of the 

 joint than in antennalis ; third joint two-thirds the length of the second, 

 pale brown with the broad base and an ill-defined annulus beyond the 

 middle pallid ; fourth feeble, shorter than the first and darker than 

 the third. Pronotum sub-campanulate ; sides feebly arcuated ; cal- 

 lousities small and rounded, prominent ; color fuscous, becoming black 

 posteriorly and ferruginous brown anteriorly ; hind edge white, quad- 

 risinuate before. Scutellum fuscous-brown or almost black, with the 

 apex whitish and sometimes with a pale spot on either side of the base 

 of the posterior lobe Elytra fuscous or blackish, becoming paler 

 along the middle of the corium posteriorly and sometimes on the 

 clavus inwardly ; corium with a conspicuous round white discal spot 

 toward the apex ; cuneus deep fuscous with two black marks on the 

 margin next the membrane. Membrane fuliginous, the nervures 

 darker, outer edge with a small pale mark at the apex of the cuneus 

 and a fainter one a little beyond. Beneath fuscous, becoming paler 

 on the pectus and disk of the venter. Sternum, coxa?, trochanters 



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