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narrow, prominent, black; rostrum slender, testai^eous, piceons at tip, reaching to the 

 posterior coxae; antennae dull black, of medium length, tlie second joint nearly as long 

 as the line from the tip of scutellum to the apex of elavus, tlie third joint a little shorter 

 and slightly more slender, tapering, the fourth scarcely more than one-thiid the length 

 of the third, still more slender. Pronotum transverse, polished, minutely pubescent, with 

 a few sparse punctures on a line in front of the low callosities, lateral margins short, 

 obliiiue, with the edge a little turned down, the collum coutined to the middle of the 

 margin, and fading into the raised surface before reaching the line of the eyes; humeral 

 angles prominent, almost acutely callous; the posterior margin almost straight. Scutel- 

 lum short, almost flat, clothed with pale pubescence, the base usually exposed, sometimes 

 disclosing the yellowish spot at each basal angle. Legs dull yellow, the posterior pair 

 having the femora black, all the tibiae with black spines and dots at base of spines; tf<,rsi 

 piceous at tip. Hemelytra covered with short yellowish pubesence, the elavus wide 

 smoky fuscous; corium with a large fufcous, wedge-shaped spot, closed on the middle, 

 the outer and inner borders and base and tip dull testaceous; the cuneus dusky, bordered 

 all around witli dull testaceous; membrane dusky, with the veins, base and sometimes, 

 the outer border pale. Abdomen black, polished, with a large greenish spot near the base, 

 and some greenish spots on the pleura. 



Lengtli to end of abdomen 3.25-2. .5 mm. Width of pronotum 1-1.25 mm. This species 

 inhabits both Colorado and Kansas, It is no doubt quite common, but hitherto only a few 

 less mature specimens have been sent to me for examination. It closely resembles A. 

 apicalis Uhler, of the Atlantic States, but is a more robust and clumsy style of insect." 



Fort Collins. June 4th; Manitoii, Jime 25tli ((xillette). 

 Steamboat Springs, July 12tli and 26tli (Baker and Gillette). 



Agalliastes associatiis Uhl. 



Colorado (Uhler, 6). Pueblo (Yarrow— see Uhler, 7). Various parts of 

 Colorado (Uhler, 9). 



Fort Collins. July 24tli to August 18th; Steamboat Springs, 

 July r2th (Baker). Horsetooth Gulch, May 18th; North 

 Park, July 20th; Trinidad, May 14th; Montrose, June 24th; 

 Glenwood Springs, August 24th ( Gillette) . Colorado Springs, 

 July (Tucker). 



Agalliastes decolor Uhl. 



On Red!>toiie Creek, twelve miles south-west of Fort 

 Collins, August 1st (Baker). 



Agalliastes fiunidns Uhler n. sp. 



"Oblong-oval, pale fus<:o-olivacoous, clouded wiili smoke bi'own. Head iiarr.;w, 

 polished, almost vertical, black upon the clypeus and tyliis, pale greenisli above, vertex 

 strongly convex; rostrum pale towards the base, slender, reaching to the middle coxae; 

 antennae dusky tesiaceous, almost piceons at base, slender, about three-fourtlis the 

 length of tlie body, the basal joint short, piceous black, the second fuscous, nearly as long 

 as the head and pronotum united, pubescent, the tliird and fourth more slender, pale, 

 much shorter tlian the second, e>es prominent, dark brown, placed diagonally. Pronotum 

 trapezoidal, transverse, bald, polished, moderately convex, pale olivaceo-testaceous, not 

 distinctly punctate, tinged with fuliginous each side anteriorly, the collum lower than the 

 base of the head, a little curved, with a black callous curved transverse line behind its 

 middle: lateral nmrgins a little sinuated, slightly notched at the outer end of the 

 transverse impressed line, the lateral margin acute and reflexed throughout, the humeral 

 angles moderately prominent, pale; posterior margin a little curved. Exposed base of 

 scutellum black in tlie middle, yellow on either side, the scutellum proper tumid in the 

 middle, sunken and dark at base, pale on the acute apex. Legs smoliy testaceous, dark 



