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spot marginal extending from near the middle of the edge, to the 

 posterior angle, and separated from the intermediate spot by a 

 small velvet black one : scutel a little elevated on the basal disk : 

 hemelytra with a rufous, somewhat reclivate line from the nume- 

 ral angle to the tip of the coriaceous portion, a velvet black spot 

 on the middle, and a minute one at the the inner basal angle ; 

 membranaceous portion deep black, polished ; a large rounded 

 geminate spot in the middle edge, and two small subtriangular 

 ones at base, white : venter rosaceous, a double series of spots 

 beneath, and one series each side, black. 



Length rather more than two-fifths of an inch. 



Resembles h. turcicus Fabr., but is at once distinguishable by 

 the large white spot on the membraneous moiety of the hemely- 

 tra, which is precisely [322] similar to that on the corresponding- 

 portion of the hemelytra of L. punctum Fabr. 



3. L. TRiviTTATUS. — Black, thorax trilineate, and hemelytra 

 marginate with rufous. 



Inhabits Missouri. 



Body black : eyes and stemmata sanguineous : thorax mutic ; 

 two indented transverse lines near the head, of which the ante- 

 rior one is curved in the middle ; three bright rufous lines, of 

 which two are marginal ; posterior edge obscurely rufous : hem- 

 elytra, coriaceous portion with a rufous exterior and posterior 

 margin, membranaceous tip immaculate : trochanters rufous : ter- 

 gum rufous with three lateral black punctures : venter, margin 

 and middle rufous. 



Length nine-twentieths of an inch. 



Taken at Engineer Cantonment. 



3. L. BiCRUCis.- — Red; head, feet, anterior part of the thorax 

 and tips of the hemelytra, black ; inner edges of the hemelytra 

 forming a yellow cruciate mark. 



Inhabits the United States. 



Body red : head black : stemmata remote, inserted near the 

 eyes; projections for the reception of the haustellum, whitish : 

 thorax mutic, posterior angles rounded, not sallient, a large trans- 

 versely oblong-quadrate, black spot before the middle, not attain- 

 ing the anterior or lateral edges, partially interrupted in its mid- 

 dle by a reddish [323] subcruciate line ; posterior edge yellow- 



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