AMERICAN HEMIPTERA. 7 



C'orimelieiia Cteriilescens Stal {cyanen Uliler.) 



I possess one specimen of Lliis species taken in Arizona and 

 kindly given to me by Di'. Uhler, and the Museum of Comp. Zool. 

 has an example taken at San Bernardino, Cal. 



It is allied in lorm and size to nitlduloides. The punctures are 

 finer or almost obsolete on the disk of the pronotun) and scutellum; 

 the sides of the scutellum are strongly inijiressed and coarsely punc- 

 tured at base; the coriaceous portion of the elytra is broad at base, 

 with the inner edge sinuated to the acute apex ; and the antennse 

 are pale, with the apical joints hardly darker. The steel-blue 

 reflections over the whole insect are very noticeable and apparently 

 characteristic. My specimen does not answer very well to the 

 description given by Dr. Uhler of his cyaiiea, and with sufficient 

 material the two forms may prove to be distinct. 



^CoriiiielsPiia <leiiii<lat:i Uhler. 



1 have seen nothing that agrees with Uhler's description of this 

 species. It must be closely related to nitidaloldes and unieolor. 

 Tlie type was from Louisiana. 



Curiineltena latt'raliK Fahr. 



Th;s well known species has l)een recorded from almost all parts 

 of the United States. I have never taken it about Buffalo, nor 

 have I received it from other localities so far to the northeast as 

 this. West of the Mississippi it seems to be very widely distril)uted 

 and common. I swept it in large nundiers from a grass patch far 

 up in Williams' Canyon, near Ogden, Utah, at an altitude of about 

 7000 feet, in July, 1900, and from Prof. Wickham I have I'eceived 

 two unusually large examples taken at Wanatchee, Wash. Distant, 

 in the Biologia, records the occurrence of a Mexican example want- 

 ing the white border to the corium, and Uhler records the same 

 peculiarity in certain specimens taken by him in the east. It is, 

 however, just possible that a careful comparison would show these 

 to be distinct from the true lateralis. In all the specimens I have 

 seen the white border to the corium is expanded within to correspond 

 with the sinus at the base of the scutellum. The whole upper sur- 

 face in this species is very regularly and distinctly punctured, with 

 a narrow, transverse, smooth area over the callosities, and the apical 

 margin of the abdomen is marked with two elongated whitish spots 

 on each side. In some examples there is a suggestion of a smooth 



TRANS. AM. ENT. SOC XXX. .JANU.\RY. 1904. 



