48 AMERICAN HKMIPTEUA HKTEROPTEKA IMONTANDON. 



Cosniopepla Uhleii sji. mi v. 



Castaiieoiis, Avitli some iiictallic rctioctioii, especially on tlieluMid, and 

 the anterior i)ait of ])ronotuni; above dcMisely punetuied. The lobes 

 of the liead are equal in len<>th, the central lobe a little narrowed at 

 the apex. Pronotuni with the latei';d margins and one transverse 

 fascia ochraceons, thti latter slightly eh^vated, witli uneciual callosities, 

 sinuated before and behind, inclosing four castaneous, finely punc- 

 tured s})ots, two on each side inii)ressed and a lifth similar s])ot on \ho 

 middle before the line of the four just mentioned. This lifth spot tends 

 todisapi)ear in the examples, in which the transverse, ochraceons fascia 

 gives forth a central longitudinal ocliracecms line extending irregularly 

 forward, and reaching sometimes to the anterior margins of the prono- 

 tuni. Scutellum broadly roun<led at the aju'x, uniformly colored, cas- 

 taneous, punctured to the extremity without any yellowish ochraceons 

 edge. Elytra castaneous, punctured, with a. somewhat shining interval 

 to the internal angle; the exterior margin with an ochraceons callosity. 

 Membrane of the same color as the elytra with ."> to G uervurcs. C\)nuexi- 

 vmn above ochraceons, with a castaneous spot at the base of each seg- 

 ment, arising from the exterior nuirgin of the elytra. Body beneat h with 

 blue greenish redection, especially on the disk of the abdomen. Breast 

 with smallpale spots xumctured withblack atthebase of each of the legs. 

 Ostiolar canal ochraceons. Ijateral margins of the prostethium ochrace- 

 ons, with a spot of the same color on the middle of the margins. Lateral 

 margins of the metapleura callous, ochraceons, with the posterior mar 

 gins narrowly edged with ochraceons. Abdomen beneath broadly 

 edged with ochraceons, this edge inwardly crennlated by a small ex- 

 tension of the color to the middle of each segment, opposite to the stig- 

 mata. The latter rather dark; the larger ]>art of the genital segment 

 brownish. Extremity ol the femora, tibia' broadly to the middle, and 

 first Joint of the tarsi, yellowish brown. Sometimes, how^ever, the legs 

 are entirely darkish. 



Length, 5^ to (5"""; breadth, ;>.4 to 1"'"". California, one example (col- 

 lection Lethierry). Xevada, two examples in my collection. 



It atVords me special satisfaction to dedicate this species to Prof. 

 Uhler, who thought that it constituted only a variety of C. conspicil- 

 laris Dall., from which it is, however, very distinct from the broader 

 aiul proportionally shorter bod}' and the more broadly rounded apex 

 of scntellum, which is not edged with ochraceons as in specimens of 

 the true C. conspicilhous Dall. The author of this last species gives 

 this character in his diagnosis (List of the specimens of hemipterous 

 insects in tlu> collection of the British Museum, Part J, 1851, p. 225): 

 "Scntellum narrowly edged with yellowish white at the apex." 



C. riiUri Montand. ditlers also in the brownish spots on the connex- 

 ivum which is here exposed, whilst in O.conspiciUari.s Dall. the connex- 

 i\um, hidden under the margin of elyti-a, is nairowly edged with yellow- 

 ish and without spots; also in the inward crenulation of the abdominal 



