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black ; the extremity only of the latter is dirty-white ; there are a few yel- 

 low hairs on the metathorax ; and the wings are embrowned. In B. ter- 

 resiris the abdomen is black, with a yellow band, and the two last anal 

 segments are white ; there are no yellow hairs on the metathorax, and the 

 wings are much clearer. 



380, BoMBUS Derhamellus Kirby. — Length of body 8 lines. Taken 

 with the preceding. 



% . Body hairy, black. Head with a tuft of yellowish hairs on the 

 vertex ; thorax yellow, black between the wings ; wings more embrowned 

 than in the male ; abdomen yellow at the base with a black posterior 

 band ; anus ferruginous. 



[274.] 381. BoMBUs PRATicoLA Kirby. — Length of body 7 lines. 

 Taken with the preceding. 



% . Body black, clothed above with yellowish hairs. Head with a 

 tuft of yellowish hairs below the antennae, and on the vertex ; thorax 

 black between the wings, which are embrowned ; legs with yellow hairs at 

 the base ; anterior half of the abdomen yellow, posterior ferruginous. 



382. BoMBUs VIRGIN icus Z/««. — Length of body 8 ^'^ lines. Locality 

 uncertain. 



1^ . Hairs of the body in general black, except a tuft on the vertex 

 behind the antennae, the anterior and posterior extremities, and sides of 

 the thorax, and the first segment of the abdomen, which are clothed with 

 yellowish hairs ; between the wings the thorax is black ; the tarsi are 

 rufous ; the wings are rather embrowned, most so at the apex ; nervures 

 black. 



[275.] VL HEMIPTERA. 



FAMILY PENTATOMIDiE. 



383. Pentatoma carnifex Fabr. — Length of body 2)^ lines. Sev- 

 eral specimens taken in the road from New York to Cumberland-house. 



Very near P. oleracea^ and probably its American representative. Body 

 black, a little bronzed ; grossly and thickly punctured, the punctures on 

 the upper surface the deepest. Head subtrapezoidal ; promuscis pale in 

 the middle ; antennae longer than the head ; prothorax wider than long, 



