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Observations on Capsidae with descriptions of new species. 



By p. R. Uhi er. 



(No. 4.) 



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Div. BRYOCORARIA. 



ECCRITOTARSUS Stal. 



E. elegans, new ?p. 



Elliptical with the hemelytra parallel-sided, the pronotum transverse and steeply 

 sloping in front, the upper surface opaque, strongly pilose. General color fuscous, 

 the head, legs, antennoe, base of rostrum, most of the pectoral and ventral surfaces, 

 and the collar of the pronotum pale rufous. Head clothed with minute pubescence, 

 vertex very short, transverse almost horizontal, not as wide as the apex of the prono- 

 tum, the eyes small, round, prominent. Face nearly vertical, the tylus prominent, 

 the ro?trum reaching to the posterior coxa;, fuscous from beyond the base to the tip. 

 AntenuK thick, as long as the hemelytra, the basal joint about as long as the head, 

 the second equally stout, curved, as long as the pronotum and head united, the third 

 slender, nearly as long as the second, the fourth equally slender, a little longer than 

 the basal one. Pronotum transverse, gently arched transversely, a little convex, fus- 

 cous, clothed with fuscous erect pubescence; the collum not apparantly pubescent, 

 rufous, acutely prominent, connected on the middle with a raised slender line that 

 runs back to base, an impres^ed transverse line bounding the base of the anterior 

 lobe; lateral margin sinuated, at the humere prominent, with the angles subacuminate. 

 Scutellum nearly equilateral, almost flat, rufous, somewhat indented near the middle. 

 Legs long, rufous sometimes piceous on the tarsi and end of tibine; the posterior pair 

 \ery long, with the femora incurved, but not clavate. Hemelytra testaceous, or whit- 

 ish, clothed with erect slender, gray pubescence; the clavus and inner margin 

 of the corium marked with fuscous, together forming a large suboval spot which ex- 

 tends to behind the middle of the corium; tip of corium crossed by a band of the 

 same color, and the apex of the cuneus is also fuscous; membrane fuscous or black. 

 \'enters short and broad, blunt at tip, but a little mpre than one half as long as the 

 hemelytra, rufous marked with black, or sometimes entirely black, or fuscous. 



Length to tip of venter O i? — 2 milhrns, .■^ i\ millims, to tip of memljrane Q 

 2 —2\, (j' 2 millims. 



This beautiful little insect has been collected in Central Texas by Mr. 

 Belfrage; in Riley CtTunty, Kansas, by Prof. Poponoe, and in Illinois by 

 Robert Kennicott and Prof Forbes. A specimen from Los Angeles, Cal., 

 is in the U. S. National Museum. As is the case in many genera of the 

 Capsidce, the head of the male is shorter, the vertex more depressed, and 

 the face less convex than in the female. 



It should be noticed that the genus Sixeonohis Reuter is preoccupied 

 by Pycnoderes Guerin ; the latter name having priority by many years over 

 the former. 



Entomologic.\ Ameuicana. Vol. in. 22 November 1887. 



