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the second and third joints nearly of equal length. Head dull black, hairy, short, and 

 transverse above, the vertex transversely impressed, prominently elevated beliind; face 

 tumid y convex, marked with a yellow stipe on the middle and a Hue of the same color on 

 the groove next the inner margin of the eyes; cheeks, tliroat and bucculae pale 

 greenish yellow; rostrum stout, greenish, black on the two apical joints, reaching upon 

 middle coxae; antennae short, tliick, the second not quite as long as the width of the 

 base of pronotum, the third a very little shorter and not much thinner. Pronotum trans- 

 verse, red or orange, set with erect black iiairs, the collum white, and the band including 

 the callosities black; lateral margins sharp, but not very prominent, pleural and sternal 

 areas pale greenish, with the sutures an I the areas between the coxae black. Legs pale 

 fulvous at base, the apex of femora, and the tibiae and t^arsi black. Scutellum pale 

 rufous or yellow with the base blackish. Oorium pale yellowish, with a large long black 

 spot running back to tip, clavus nearly or all black, cun'^us pale yellowish, bordered 

 inwardly with black, membrane blackish. Abdomen pale greenish, with the ovipositor, 

 genitalia and some short slender lines on the sutures of che segments black. 



Leiigtli to tip of abdomen :!..5— 3.7.T mm. Width of pronotum 1.1-^— 1.2". mm. Specimens 

 of both sexes were kindly sent to me by Prof. Snow and Prof. G.'Uette. The first were 

 collected at Colorado Springs, in July, by Mr. E. S. Tucker. Damaged specimens, from 

 alcohol, were obtained for rae in Dakota, and I captured a weather-worn specimen west 

 of Denver in the month of August." 



Hadroiienia princeps Uhl. 



Fort Collins, June 4th; Rist Canon, June 13th to July 30th; 

 Gore Pass, July 29th; North Park, July 20th (Gillette). 

 Steamboat Springs, July 12th to 16th, on Delphinium occi- 

 dentale and other low plants (Baker). 



Hadronetna pulveriilenta Uhl. 

 Colorado (Gillette— see Osborn, 1). 



Fort Collins, May 6th, about roots of a rose bush (R. C. 

 Stephenson). Soldier Canon, May 19th; Golden, April 30th 

 (Gillette). Fort Collins, September 26th, on elm (Baker). 



Hadronetna robusta Uhl. 



Colorado (Cockerell — see Ashmead in litt.). 



Pachytropis nnhilns Uhl. 



Steamboat Springs, July 26th (Gillette). 



Phytocoris colon Say. 



Colorado (Gillette— see Osborn, 1). 



Phytocoris interspersus Uhler n. sp. 



"In form similar to P. eximus Reut., but larger, and almost flat on the hemelvtra. 

 Pale delicate green, mottled with very pale brown all over the hemelytra, which are 

 almost hirsute and the hairs interspersed with dark bristles. Head of medium size, 

 convex, smooth, pubescent in front and on the sides; the eyes brown, prominent, reniform, 

 placed almost vertical; front feebly grooved to near the back line of the eyes; rostrum 

 thick at base, reaching well behind the posterior legs, dusky at tip; the antennae longer 

 than the body, whitish, set with long bristle.s, the second joint longer than from the front 

 to the posterior coxae, less hairy than the basal joint, the third a little more slender, 

 about two-thirds the length of the second, the fourth much shorter and equally slender, 

 the basal joint of medium thickness, about as long as the fore femur. Pronotum smooth, 

 much wider than long, obsoletely veined with fulvous, contracted before the middle, a 



