84 AMERICAN HEMIPTERA. 



rounded apex, median line sulcate. Front narrower than in septentrio- 

 nalis, its sides more strongly sinuated and with the median line cari- 

 nate. Pronotum produced almost to the anterior line of the eyes, trun- 

 cate before ; hind margin angularly emarginate, about as in septen- 

 trionalis; lateral carinse prominent, median almost obsolete. Meso- 

 notum but feebly convex, carinse subobsolete, except the median for 

 a short space anteriorly. Elytra narrow, the costa but feebly expanded. 

 Color a uniform fuscous-brown, scarcely varigated, a little paler on 

 the vertex and pronotum ; patagise pale cinerous. Elytra a little darker, 

 very obscurely irrorated with pale posteriorly and with the costa some- 

 what paler ; three black points near the apex as in most of the allied 

 species, but none in the costal areole. Front of a uniform dark brown, 

 its carinate edges and those of the vertex pointed with black ; clypeus 

 deep fuscous, almost black ; sides beneath with a broad percurrent 

 whitish vitta beginning on the cheeks before the antennas, bordered 

 above with blackish ; posterior coxse and the genital segments paler. 

 Legs concolorous, brown. Wings deeply enfumed with fuscous ner- 

 vures. Length scant 7 mm. 



Lakehust, N. J., one male, taken May 29th by Mr. W. H. 

 Davis. This insect agrees with Walker's description in every 

 respect, except that the pale irrorations of the upper surface 

 are almost obsolete and the red spot at the base of the abdo- 

 men on either side is represented by pale ferruginous. I 

 have no doubt but it is the species described by him. 



A single female, taken at the same place and but one day 

 earlier, may belong to this species. It has a much shorter 

 vertex and is paler with the elytral maculation quite distinct ; 

 the costal areola has the usual three black points, there are 

 two larger ones on the disk of the corium, and the three near 

 the apex are conspicuous ; the front is broader with its sides 

 rectilinear, its basal third is blackish, the apical two-thirds 

 and the clypeus are a uniform brown ; the lateral white vittse 

 beneath are scarcely distinguished, but the bounding black 

 vitta above it is conspicuous. The differences here are more 

 than I have seen between the sexes of any other species of 

 Elidiptera, but I do not care to separate them without more 

 material. Were it not for the very different shape and color- 

 ing of the front and vertex I would have no doubt about this 

 being the female of floridce. I now follow Kirkaldy and 

 others in using the name Elidiptera Spinola, in place of 



