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Described from one ¢ and seven 9’s collected by me in the. 
Huachuca Mts., Arizona, August, 1905; one @ St. Thomas, 
Brownsville, Tex., collected by Mr. Charles Schaeffer; and one 
6 from Sonora Co., California, in the collection of Mr. J. R. 
de la Torre-Bueno. 
This species falls in the section “gg” of Stal’s arrangement 
of the genus in Enum. Hemipt., I, 164, because of the extreme 
shortness of the rostrum, which will at once separate this from 
any other known United States form. The steep anterior de- 
clivous face of the posterior lobe of the pronotum and the ex- 
tremely wide and short tibial expansion will further differentiate 
the species. Mr. Heidemann and myself formerly referred this 
to Leptoglossus stigma Hbst. var. minor Dall. 
Thyreocoris rastratus Stal. Mr. E. P. Van Duzee has placed this in his 
recent catalogue upon the record which I transmitted to him. It will 
therefore be necessary to publish the facts concerning this new addition 
to our fauna. A single 2 from Brownsville, Texas, collected by Mr. O. 
Dietz in June, 1901, is in my collection. It is very unlike any other form 
from the United States. It is very short and broad, dull black, finely 
rastrate on the pronotum and scutellum laterally. The head is obtusely 
triangular and except at base very closely and evenly punctate all over. 
Originally described by Stal from Brazil and later, Stett. Ent. Zeit. XXIII, 
1862, p. 94, he referred to this species, with doubt, a Mexican specimen 
received from Signoret. Distant, Biol. Cent. Amer., 1880, records this 
species from British Honduras and Guatemala, so without doubt Stal was 
correct in his diagnosis of the Signoret specimen. 
Blissus occiduus n. sp. Brachypterous form closely related to the 
European brachypterous B. dorie Ferr., which it resembles in size, color 
and general appearance. 
Color black, sometimes verging into dark castaneous on the head, pro- 
notum, connexivum and venter. Apex of tylus, first three segments of 
the antennz and base of the fourth, rostrum, and legs ochraceous. Mem- 
branous part of hemielytra in macropterous forms whitish with the veins 
pale stramineus, and a piceous spot before apex. Membrane concolorous 
with the membranous part of the corium. Head and pronotum covered 
with short white tomentose hairs Corium more sparsely pilose. An- 
tenne and legs finely pilose. Dorsal part of abdomen and beneath clothed 
with fine incumbent silvery hairs. 
Head short and broad, much deflexed before. Eyes not so prominent as 
in B. leucopterus Say. Antenne with the second segment one third longer 
than third, fourth segment about one third longer than second, pale at base 
and very lightly incrassate. Lightly incrassate fore femora unarmed. 
