AMERICAN HEMIPTERA. 11 



Say's name for this species was preoccupied by G. albipennis Esch. 

 from Chili, published ten years earlier; I have therefore substituted 

 for it the name of the illustrious naturalist who first described it. 



'"'Coriineliena obtusa Uliler. Hemipt. of Lower Calif., Proc. Calif. Acad, 

 of Sci., Ser. 2. iv, p. 2tb, 1894. 



I have never seen this sj)ecies, which was described from speci- 

 mens taken in Lower California and therefore not really belonging 

 to our fauna. Judging from Uhler's description, it must be very 

 closely related to Sayi in some of its characters. 



Family SCUTELLERTD.E. 



A good synopsis of the American genera of this sul)family is given 

 by Stal in " Bidrag till Hemipterernas systematik " in Of. Kongl. 

 Vet.-Akad. Forh., xxiv, no. 7, p. 491, 1867, under the name Tety- 

 rUhe. They are listed in the Enumeratio Hemip., i, p. 4, 1870. 

 Germar's Monograph, in his Zeits. fur Ent., vol. i, pt. 1, pp. 1-146, 

 1839, although old, is quite indispensable in the study of this family. 



Tetyra bipiinctata H. S. 



My specimens are from Maryland and Washington, D. C. Its 

 recorded range includes Texas, Mexico and Lower California. 



•■'Telyra arciiata Fabr. 



Mrs. Slos.son has kindly sent me for study an individual of this 

 species taken at Biscany Bay, Fla. It is almost as light in color as 

 fareta, but rather more tinged with grey. The markings are about 

 the same as those of bipunctato., but it can be readily distinguished 

 from that species by the shorter head, the black antennae, banded 

 with white at each incisure, and the short rostrun), wiiich reaches 

 only to the middle of the second ventral segment, while in bipunc- 

 tata it reaches well on to the fifth segment. This is the first recorded 

 occurrence of this insect in our territory, unless Uhler's robmia 

 should prove to be a form of the same. 



■■Tetyra robusta Uhier. Trans. Md. Acad, of Sci., i. p. 383, 1897. 



Dr. Uhler describes this species from material taken in Arizona 

 and Mexico, and suggests its relationship with arcaata Fabr. I 

 have not seen it. 



TRANS. AM. ENT. SOC, XXX. JANUARY, 1904. 



