April, 1918 Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society 35 
A NEW SPECIES OF LEPTOGLOSSUS: A NEW BLISSUS 
AND VARIETIES. 
By H. G. Barser, Roselle Park, N. J. 
Leptoglossus brevirostris n. sp. Leptoglossus sp.?—Barber, Bull. Mus. 
Brooklyn Inst. of Arts and Sci., 266, 1906. Color ‘fusco-rufous or dark 
ferrugineus-brown, with the head, two suboval cicatrices anteriorly on the 
pronotum, humeral area, connexivum, two stripes on the basal segment of 
the antenne, apical part of the femore piceous. The three apical seg- 
ments of the antenne, a stripe along the outer and inner surface of the 
basal segment, three longitudinal stripes on the head, the lateral margins 
of the pronotum anteriorly and between the cicatrices, a transverse wavy 
line on the middle of the corium, apex of scutellum, incisures of the con- 
nexivum, femore above towards base, tibie for the most part, and a few 
spots on the darker tibial expansion, pale or ochraceous. Head and pro- 
notum anteriorly with incumbent silver-white pubescence and a spare cov- 
ering of dark pilose hairs. 
The tylus forming a somewhat blunt, rounded, elevated lamina, slightly 
exceeding the juge. The second segment of antennze one third longer 
than the third, fourth segment long, a little longer than the second. Ros- 
trum short, just reaching past middle coxe, second segment subequal to 
basal and about two and one half as long as third which is one third 
shorter than blackened apical one. The pronotal humeral angles promi- 
nently expanded and elevated into broad acuminate acute angles, margin 
posterior, to which is often finely dentate or serrate; the anterior declivous 
face of the posterior lobe of the pronotum almost vertical, the surface 
closely and coarsely punctate and provided with an obscure longitudinal 
median carina posteriorly. Veins of the corium wine-red. The trans- 
verse yellowish fascia wavy, following the line of the transverse veins. 
Membrane somewhat bronzy. Beneath dirty testaceous, maculate with 
fuscous spots. The legs somewhat densely pilose. Posterior femora 
about reaching apex of abdomen, provided outwardly with two rows of 
widely separated, short, black, backwardly pointing teeth and inwardly 
with two rows of longer, posteriorly directed spines, five or six in the 
lower row and three in the upper series increasing gradually in size out- 
wardly. The expansion of the posterior tibia wide, bronzy purple-brown, 
with a few pale spots, occupying more than one half of the length but not 
two thirds of the tibia, tridentate in both sexes, the inner expansion less 
than one third the diameter of the outer expansion and one fourth shorter, 
calloused all along the margin, rather abruptly terminating and apically 
furnished with one to several teeth; simple apical part of the tibia armed 
inwardly with several scattered, short, blunt teeth. 
Length J 12 mm., 2 14 mm.; width of pronotum @ 5 mm. 
