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iireole very wide and long, the inner areole very distinct, about one-third 

 as wide at lip as the preceding. Middle joint of tarsi very short, the basal 

 and apical ones long, nearly equal. 



B. amicta, new sp. 



Ivory yellow, or pale fulvous ; form much like that of Gcocoris hillatus Say. 

 Head smootli, an oblong spot in each any;le at base ot vertex, a crescent each side 

 bounding the convexity of the face, transverse ridges of the front placed each side of 

 a depressed longitudinal line, three spots above the tylus, middle Ime of the latter, 

 and margins of all the segments of the cheeks rufous ; sockets of the antennae, basal 

 joint of the same, and basal joint of the rostrum dark piceous. Base of vertex with 

 an impression along the front of the carina, and tliis connects with the longitudinal 

 indentation each side, and next below which is an arcuated, impressed, scabrous line 

 bounding each side of the front ; basal carina almost straight, the occipital area 

 piceous, triangularly excavated each side ; antenna rather slender, excepting the 

 basal joint, dusky, ]ialer at tip, the second joint of ecjual thickness throughout, much 

 thinner than the basal one, and about as long as the eye and pronotum taken to- 

 gether ; rostrum pale piceous beyond the basal joint, leaching over the tip of the 

 posterior coxte O, but extending upon the base of the last ventral segment (^'. Pro- 

 notum polished, a little narrower in front than at base, ivory-yellow, roughly un- 

 evenly punctate, piceous on the collum, posterior margin, and on the lateral margin 

 at base ; fore part of the disk fulvous each side. Margins of the pleural segments, 

 and more or less of the coxa\ rufous. Scutellum ivory-yellow, piceous across the 

 base, polished, minutely wrinkled. Corium feebly polished, opaque, obsoletely 

 punctate, margined exteriorly and interiorly and with a gradually widening curved 

 streak running back to a wavy broad band at tij), piceous ; clavus more coarsely 

 punctate, margined on both sides with piceous ; cuiieus ivory-yellow, broadly piceous 

 at tip and slenderly so on the exterior margm ; membrane dusky, paler at base, the 

 nervules of the areoles pale yellow, and the areoles dusky next the tip. Legs dull 

 testaceous, more or less piceous on the femora and tip ot tibia;, tarsi dark piecous. 

 Venter highly polished, the sutures, incisures, ovipositor, and genitalia rufo-piceous 

 or rufous. 



Length to tip of venter 4 mm.; to tip of membrane 42 "5 nim. 



Mr. Boiler collected several specimens in New Mexico and kindly 

 gave me a pair of both sexes. 



Dh. PLAGIOGNATHARIA. 



Psallus delicatus, new sp. 



Rosy pink or testaceous tins^ed with dull brown ; moderately robust, polished. 



Head almost vertical ; face convex, smooth along the nn'ddle, and each side of this 



with a crescent composed of short fuscous transverse lines, the middle line of vertex 



obsoletely impressed ; tylus short, prominent, tinged with pale piceous ; antennre 



testaceous, dusky on the last two joints, sometimes the basal and second joints pale 



piceous ; basal shorter than the head, the second a 'J°^'j^"!^er than the pronotum ; 



tips of the cheeks and base and tip of the rostrum i n(^."iii„ ,V- ' ''"" latter rcach- 

 • „ , • 1 , , ■-/"C'a"y P'ceous, uJo hasa- , 



mg upon the posterior coxa ; eyes dark blown, ncuriy .*.v..] », »vea 



beneath where bending upon the throat. Pronotum polished, convex, transverse, re- 

 motely very obscurely punctate ; the lateral margins carinate-reflexed, oblique, 

 hardly sinuated ; the callosities generally fuscous in the surrounding depressed lines; 



