80 AMERICAN HEMIPTERA. 



N. Y., on August 4, 1906, where they seemed to be feeding 

 on plant lice. This species is a true Lopidea, although 

 it is broader and darker than any other species yet de- 

 scribed from this country. The pale streak on the cubital 

 nervure, and the whitish or rosy cuneus readily distinguish 

 this species. 



Mr. Fordyce Grinnell, Jr., has taken an insect on the San 

 Jacinto Mountains, California, at an altitude of 5000 feet, 

 which probably belongs to this species. It is darker on the 

 head, abdomen, and elytra, and the latter wants the pale 

 streak on the cubital nervure and the black tip to the cuneus, 

 and the scutellum is rufo-piceous. 



Hadrouema festiva n. sp. 



Form of picta but with the vertex swollen as in robusta. Color 

 black, corium orange, with a large black spot on the inner angle. 

 Length 3^ mm. 



Head prominent, the vertex strongly convex, especially in the female ; 

 front vertical, strongly impressed at the base of the very convex tylus. 

 Rostrum reaching nearly to the base of the intermediate coxae. An- 

 tennae about as in picta, first joint very short and stout, armed with a 

 few stiff black hairs ; second over three times as long as the first, 

 minutely pubescent ; third a little longer than the second and thinner; 

 fourth still more slender and shorter than the first. Pronotum longer 

 than in picta, strongly narrowed anteriorly; sides feebly sinuated ; 

 hind margin slightly concave ; humeral angles prominent ; surface 

 roughly shagreened ; collar very narrow but distinct. 



Color blackish piceous, sericeous pubescent and quite strongly prui- 

 nose, especially beneath ; pronotum, elytra, and legs with longer whit- 

 ish hairs ; inner cheeks paler ; slender hind edge of the ventral seg- 

 ments pale ; corium fulvous, fading to yellowish inwardly and marked 

 on the inner angle by a large blackish spot which connects with the 

 black of the clavus ; membrane smoky iridescent and paler at the 

 margin and along the cuneus, the nervures blackish. 



Described from numerous examples taken at Alamagordo, 

 New Mexico, in late April and early May, belonging to the 

 Museum of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 

 I can find no description agreeing at all with this insect. In 

 many examples there is a greenish incrustation occupying 

 the depressions on the base of the vertex and on the sides of 

 the pronotum behind the callousities. 



