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joint equal to or slightly longer than the third : thorax with the 

 anterior margin and transverse impressed line black : scutel 

 blackish each side of the middle ; the middle line impuuctured : 

 hemelytra, corium yellowish, a dull rufous spot at its tip : mem- 

 brane milky white with pale brownish spots ; tergum fulvous 

 spotted with black as well on the disc as on the margin : be- 

 neath more or less spotted with blackish ; blackish along the 

 middle ; around the origin of the feet yellow ; feet obscurely 

 annulated ; rostrum extending to the middle of the venter. 



Length less than one-fourth of an inch. 



I obtained a specimen at Council Bluff and one in Indiana. 



9. L. numenius. — -Hemelytra with a pale rufous tip of the 

 oorium ; rostrum as long as the body. 



Inhabits United States. 



Body greenish-yellow : head long, the tip extending beyond 

 the first joint of the antennae: antennas pale yellowish; first 

 joint rather short; second joint a little longer than the third : 

 fourth joint tinged with honey-yellow : thorax with separate punc- 

 tures, anterior edge and dorsal line impunctured; transverse 

 [776] indentation interrupted by the dorsal lines: scutel pale 

 rufous each side : hemelytra with a pale rufous spot at tip of the 

 corium ; membrane with an obsolete fuliginous line in tbe mid- 

 dle : tergum on the lateral margin with pale rufous spots : be- 

 neath tinged with rufous ; feet pale : rostrum extending to the 

 tip of the abdomen. 



Length less than one-fifth of an inch. 



Resembles scolopax nob., but the second joint is obviously 

 longer than the third, and the rostrum is more elongated. I do 

 not recollect in what part of the Union I took this species. 



10. L. FALICUS. — Elongated ; hemelytra yellowish with brown 

 nervures. 



Inhabits Missouri. 



Body blackish, elongated somewhat depressed; antennae short, 

 robust, hairy ; second joint longest : thorax of the basal margin 

 piceous; transversely a little depressed in the middle and with a 

 longitudinal indentation before the middle : scutel with a carinate 

 line : hemelytra shorter than the abdomen, dull yellowish, with 

 brown nervures; corium short and very oblique at tip; membrane 



