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the present species. Lateralis is broader than either montanus or 

 puHcarius and approaches ciliatus in form. 



Thyreocoris montanus VanDuzee. 



1904. Corintclaena lateralis VanDuzee (not Fabricius), Trans. Am. 



Ent. Soc, XXX, p. 7. 

 1909. Thyreocoris montanus VanDuzee, Ent. News, XX, pp. 231-32. 



I took a single female of montanus at Crawford on the pme 

 ridge, July 8, 1910. A male from West Point, Nebraska, is much 

 smaller than the average of the specimens in the collection belong- 

 ing to this species, and is about the size of some specimens of 

 piilicarms, although quite distinct from them in the specific 

 characters. 



Thyreocoris pulicarius (Germar). 



1839. Odontoscelis pulicarius Germar, Zeitschr., I, p. 39. 

 1865. Thyreocoris flavomarginata Thomas, Trans. III. St. Ag. Soc, 

 V, p. 455- 



Moderately common, at least in eastern Nebraska. Specimens 

 in the collection are from Lincoln, West Point and Germantown. 



Thyreocoris sayi (VanDuzee). 



1831. Thyreocoris albipennis Say (not Eschscholtz), Het. Hem., N. 



Harm., Ind. 

 1904. Corimelaena Sayi VanDuzee, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, XXX, p. 10. 



Very little is known concerning the habits or distribution of 

 this insect owing to its apparent rarity. Say described it in 183 1 

 from a specimen, lacking a head, collected in " Missouri ... on 

 the Missouri river." The exact locality is indeterminable, but 

 since the specimen was taken on the expedition of Major Long, 

 there is a probability that the place was somewhere within the 

 present limits of Nebraska. Since that time, two specimens have 

 been collected at Fort Collins, Colorado and the occurrence re- 

 corded. Another individual, thought to be of this species, was 

 recorded from the same locality but was later found to be the im- 

 mature form of renormata Uhler. Aside from these specimens 

 no others have come to light. 



For some time there has been a specimen in the collection, taken 



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