40 PRELIMINARY LIST 



Paiuerocoris anthocoroides Uhl. 



Xear Denver (B. H. Smith— see Uhler, 5). 



Monalocoris filicis L. 



Swept from a small fern which grows in clamp places among the rocks 

 high vip in the mountains near Beaver Brook, adjoining Clear Creek Canon, 

 August 6th (Uhler, 5). 



mccritotarsus scabrosus Uhler n. sp. 



"Compact, thick and short, somewhat resemhling E. vestitus Dist., a little pubescent, 

 the general color piceous-browu, with red head and legs, and -nearly all of the upper 

 surface roughly, and coarsely punctate. Head tumidly convex, wiili a callous ridge 

 against the inner border of the eyes, and this continued along the border of the occiput; 

 surface somewhat coarsely punctate, the front indented in the middle and grooved each 

 side, a little obscured with brown; tylus a little more prominent than the front, placed 

 almost vertical; the rostrum rufous, a little tinged with piceous; antennae blacKish, 

 short, stout, the basal joint shorter than the head, contracted at base, the second longest, 

 growing thicker towards the tip, shorter than the pronotum, the third much more slen- 

 der, about one-half as long as the second, the fourth much shorter. Pronotum strongly 

 convex, a little longer than wide, steeply sloping towards the head; tlie anterior lobe ab- 

 ruptly contracted, sepaj-ated by a transverse and curved series of indented points; 

 surface tinged witli rufous, coarsely, roughlj^ punctate: lateral margins sinuated and 

 steeply curved down; the posterior margin a little curved, feebly sinuated, bent down; 

 pleural flaps very coarsely punctate. Legs stout, rufous, covered with pale pubescence. 

 Scutellum small, tumid at tip, punctate basally. Hemelytra broad, thick, coarsely and 

 roughly punctate, the cuneus long, depresi^ed, curved on both sides, the membrane fuli- 

 ginous, with a pale arc on the middle, the areoles rougli and of thick texture. Sternum 

 and venter somewhat rufous, the latter obsoletely punctate, highly polished, minutely 

 pubescent. 



Length to end of abdomen 3.5 mm. W'idth of pronotum 1.35 mm. Described from one 

 specimen, a ma'*^, from Colorado " 



Estes Park, July 10th (Gillette). 



Pycnoderes insignis Kent. 



Steamboat Springs, Jul}' 26tli (Gillette). 



Ilnacora ehloris Uhl. 



On the tlowers of a slender pale com])Osite, growing in Manitou Park, 

 August 14th. Also near Colorado Springs, in the low grounds near Fountain 

 Creek (Uhler, 5). AVest Clilf, Custer County, sweeping herbage, July 25th 

 (Cockerell, 10). 



Estes Park, July 10th; Dolore.^, June ISth; Steamboat 

 Springs, July 2(5th (Ctillette ) . 



Ilnacora divisa J^eut. 



Steamboat Springs, July 14th and 26th (Gillette and 

 Baker). 



Ilnacora stallii lieut. 



Steamboat Springs, July IGth (Baker 



