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of Reuter, and, as the fir,st tarsal joint is longer than the second, 

 and the arolia are scarcely visible, it will probably be better to 

 place it in the former division. 



Fam. REDUVIID^. 



Harpactor amerlcanns n. sp. — Head hairy, a little shining, black, a spot 

 between the ocelli, a lateral vitta running from the ocelli to the anterior 

 angles of the eyes, ante-ocular part at least at the sides, and the throat 

 red ; ante-ocular and post-ocular part of the same length ; rostrum red, 

 piceous at apex, first joint hardly longer than the ante-ocular part of the 

 head, second joint distinctly longer than the tirst ; first joint of the an- 

 tennai as long as the head, blackish, broadly annulat'ed with fufou§ m the 

 middle or sometimes entirely red except apex, second joint considerably 

 shorter than the first, entirely fuscous or rufous with apex black (remain- 

 ing joints wanting). Pronotum a little longer than the head, smooth, 

 hairy, subnitid, anterior angles bluntly tubercj.ilate, lateral angles rounded, 

 not prominent, basal margin feebly and broadly sinuate ; anterior lobe 

 scarcely tuberculate at the sides of the longitudinal furrow ; color of pro- 

 notum black, the lateral angles, the posiero-lateral margin and the basal 

 margin of the hind lobe red, sometimes also a short red streak on the 

 lateral margin of the fore lobe ; in fresh specimens some narrow grayish 

 sericeous bands on the disc of the fore lobe Breast black, the middle 

 of antepectus and the acetabula red ; scutellum black ; hemeiytra a little 

 longer than the abdomen,' corium red, with the clavus sometimes blackish, 

 membrane shining, more or less infuscated. Abdomen entirely red in the 

 male, but in the female there is a quadrate black spot at the basal angles 

 of the abdominal segments ; spiracular seated very little before the middle 

 of the segments. Legs red, femora, tibiae and tarsi infuscated at apex, a 

 subbasal ring to the tibse and sometimes a spot or ring on the middle of 

 the femora fuscous. Length 10-10.8 mm. 



This is the first American species of the genus Harpactor, as 

 characterized by Stal in Ennm. Hem. iv, p. 13, under the name 

 Rediivius. It must be noted, however, that the Siberian H. leu- 

 (ospilus Stal is distributed to Sitka in the East. In Europe the 

 genus is represented by several species. H. ameruanus is a 

 Northern or mountain species, inhabiting Shasta County, and 

 was communicated to us many years ago by its discoverer, Mr. 

 J mies Behrens. I have in vain waited to see this conspicuous 

 insect described in one of the numerous writings of Prof. Uhler. 



Kntomolocical News for .March, was mailed I"eb. 27, 1S97. 



