NOTES ON AMERICAN HEMIPTERA HETEROPTERA. 



BY 

 A. L. MONTANDON.* 



I. 



CONTRIBUTION?^ TO A KNOWLEDGE OP THE SPECIES OF THE GENUS 



COSMOPEPLA STAL. 



This genus of the subfamily Peutatomina, as constituted by the emi- 

 nent Prof. Still: O. V. A. F., 1807, p. 525, has the followhig characters: 



C(>r])i)i'e latiuscule oboviito, siil)tii.s ,s;it convexo; c;lpit(^ valde dtitlcxo, thorace 

 bivviore, itarviiisculo, ante ociilos utriiiiqiioleviter sitmato, autesinus vix a.ngustato, 

 apicc rotuudato-truncato, Jugis ot tylo a-quo loiigis, inargiuibus sub-acutis; bucciiliH 

 sat (devatis, postice altioribus; ocellis inter se quaiu ab oculis fere triplo longms 

 rcinotis ; rostro paullo pone coxas posticas extenso, articulo primobucciilas superante, 

 articulo .sccundo apicalibus duobus ad uunni vix brcvioro; autennis incdiocribus, 

 articulo ])rimo apioeni capitis ;equaiite vel vix attingente, secuudo tertio breviore; 

 thorace a,nterius sat declivd, marginibiis latcralibiis obtusis, callosLs, intogris, anguli.s 

 lateralibus rotundatis, baud prominulis; scutcllo mediocri, apice lato et rotundato, 

 frenis ultra medium scutelli haudextensis; vonismembrana>. simplicibus; mesosteruo 

 leviter carinato ; ostiis odoriferis paullo elevatis, in sulcum baud continuatis; tibiis 

 teretibus, sulco destitutis. 



Tlie important characters of this long diagi'iosis have been summed 

 up by M. Distant, in Biol. Cent. Amer., p. 52, as follows: 



Tlie loljcs of the head are of equal length, tlie scutellum broad and rounded at the 

 apex, the lateral angles of the prouotnni are rounded * * * and the nervures of 

 th<; membrane are longitudinal and simple. 



U]) to this day live species Avere placed in this genus, in which Still, 

 in liis great work Enumeratio Hemix)terorum, 2, 1872, m^. 18, 19, enu- 

 merated three already described species: Cimex carn'ifex Fabr., E. S., 

 Su]»i)l., 1798, p. 535 ; ?Jy,sarGori.s decoratus 1 lahn, W. I., ii, 1834, p. 1 17, Fig. 

 198; EijHarcorU conspicillaris Dallas, List of Hemipt., I, 1851, p. 225, 

 and diagnosed CoKmopepla cruciaria Stiil. Recently JVl. Distant added 

 to these Gosniopcpla hin.otata ])ist., Biol. Centr.-Amei'., Hemipt. Heto- 

 ropt. Suppl., p. 327, Tab. xxxi,Fig. 7. 



*SiR: I have the honor to submit for publication the accompanying "Notes on 

 North American Heraiptera Hoteroptera," by Mr. A. L. Montandon, of Bucharest, 

 Jioumania. The noti^s are of authoritative value and Mr. Montandon has based them 

 to a certain extent upon Museum material which I have sent over to him from time 

 to time. 



liespectfully, 



C. V. RlI.EY, 

 Ifonoran/ Curator of the Department of Insects. 

 Mr. F. W. TftrK, 



Curator-i)i-<'har</(' of ihc V. S. Nalional Mnxeiim. 



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