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ing by the broader form, the narrower and more pointed head, the 

 pale yellowisli color with tlie anterior lobe of the pronotum black- 

 ish. The pronotum is shaped about as in frutieicola, but it is less 

 convex and sometimes there is an obsolete median carina. The pale 

 color is often well obscured by blackish punctures. Tlie types were 

 from Arizona, but Prof. Wickham has sent me some that were cap- 

 tured in the Inyo Mountains, California, in July, at an altitude of 

 7000 to 9000 feet, and Pnjf. Osborn has a few examples taken at 

 El Paso, Texas, in July, by Prof. Wickham. 



Liiotropis pini Montondou (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xvi. p. 51, 1893). 



Distinguishable from our other species by its reg^ularly ovate form, 

 rounded humeral angles and uniform coloration, which varies from 

 pale ochraceous to ferruginous or almost rufous. The head is nar- 

 rowed anteriorly as in contaminatus, there is a short median carina 

 at the anterior margin of the pronotum, the third joint of the an- 

 tenna) is twice as long as the second, but shorter than the first two 

 together, and there is a small impunctate area on the disk of each 

 elytron. The whole insect is unusually depressed even for this 

 genus. It varies in length from 5 to 8 mm. The types were from 

 the Argus Mountains in California, but in Prof. Osborn's collection 

 are specimens from Arizona and Texas, and Prof. E. D. Ball has 

 kindly given me one taken in Colorado. 



Eclessa bifiila S;iy. 



Dr. Uhler records this insect from Florida and Louisiana. It 

 doubtless inhabits the whole southern coastal region of the United 

 States. So far as I can learn this is the only species in this large 

 tropical American genus that extends its range northwardly into 

 our territory. 



Subfamily Asopid^. 



A good synopsis of this subfamily by Stal may be found in his 

 Bidrag till Hemip. Systematik ; Of k. Vet.-Akad. Forh., xxiv, pp. 

 495-499, 1867. Our genera are also included in Summer's Synopsis 

 of the Nearctic Pentatomidse. 



Stiretrtis ancliorago Fahr. 



Of this extremely variable species I have seen but three well- 

 marked varieties : 



Var. fimbrlatus Say. — Figured in Am. Ent., pi. 43, upper left 

 figure. Say's specimen came from Pennsylvania. Dr. Uhler re- 



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



