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Monacoris ficilis Linn., proves to be widely distributed in North 

 America. It has been brought from the vicinity of Fort Simpson on the 

 Mackenzie River, by Robert Kennicott ; and spreads South as far as 

 TamauHpas, Mexico. On the Eastern side of the continent, it has been 

 found from Chicontimi and Montmorency, Province of Quebec, through 

 all the United States southward into Florida. 



Div. CYLLECORARIA. 



EUCEROCORIS, Westw. 



E. guttulatus n. sp. 



Eloiii^ate subcylindrical, contracted liehind the head, dull cinnamon-fulvous, 

 more or less springled with rulous, with a pale yellow, transverse spot at the base of 

 the cuneus, and with the antennae, excepting the terminal joint, the tibiae, pasterior 

 pair of coxae and base of venter whitish-yellow. Head bluntly rounded, opaque, 

 sparsely pubescent, more or less rufous ; face nearly vertical, vertex a little longer 

 than the width of the eyes, with a slender groove extending from the base to before 

 the middle, the eyes black, oval, prominent, almost vertical, separated from the 

 thorax by a contracted collum ; front moderately convex, the tylus long and promi- 

 nent ; rostrum reaching to the posterior coxae, pale yellowish, the basal joint stout, 

 rufous or brownish, extending to a point on a line with tlie base of anterior coxae, the 

 apical joint mostly piceous ; antennae much longer than the body and hemelytra 

 united, filiform, not tapering, the basal joint a little stouter, tlie apical one very short, 

 black or piceus. Pronotum campanuhite, very sparsely pubescent, the posterior lobe 

 polished, a little longer than the anterior one, anterior lobe convex in both diameters, 

 paler and more rufous, depressed on the middle, the anterior and antero-lateral 

 margin bluntly recurved, supra-coxal lobe lunate, vertical, strongly defined by deep 

 sutures. The two anterior pairs of coxae flecked with rufous ; femora long, the two 

 anterior pair slender, tinged with rufous above and on the outside, especially at tip, 

 posterior femora stout, long fusi form, a little curved, mostly piceo-rufous, tibiae still 

 longer and more slender, pale testaceous, minutely piceous at tip, armed with long, 

 slender, dark spines, of which those on the posterior proceed from black dots, the 

 tarsi a little infuscated at tip, with the nails piceous, basal joint nearly as long as the 

 apical, the intermediate joint very short. Scutellum strongly convex, accuminate and 

 pale at tip. Hemelytra long and narrow with a broader rounded membrane, dull 

 tawny, minutely pubescent, having a minute, pale dot on the corium next the apex of 

 the clavus, and a pale, transverse line at base of the cuneus, membrane pale, marked 

 with a spot of fuliginous at tip which is sinuous on its inner border ; veins of the ' 

 areole, and also of the wings, red. Abdomen much contracted on the basal third, 

 polished, tawny, darker posteriorly, the venter with a large white spot extending to 

 beyond the middle. 



Length to tip ot venter: ^ 4|, 9 5i "im-; to tip of membrane: (J^ 6^, 

 9 6 — 7 mm. 



Taken from the Liriodendron and from Grape vines in several parts 

 of Maryland, from the Eastern shore of Chesapeake Bay to the hills of 

 Frederick County, at various times between July i8th and August 14th. 

 It occurs also in Texas and Western Illinois. The swollen figure of the 



