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much of his material by collecting at lights for it was only in such manner 
that the writer found ocellatus and certain other Reuter species of which 
Belfrage furnished the type material from Texas. The females of ocel- 
latus were not taken, though the wingless females of this tiny form must 
have been present on the low grasses, as has been found in the case of 
noctuans and transversus. 
Records: 6 6d, June 22, Devers, Texas; 7 6d, June 23, Richmond, 
Texas; 4 dd, June 25, Victoria, Texas; all collected by the writer on the 
tent trap light. 
After much sweeping and beating only two specimens of Phy- 
tocoris breviusculus were taken on mesquite while at night the 
species came in numbers to the trap light. Tiryas punctulatus 
was another species that was taken at the trap light while no 
amount of sweeping and beating would reveal its presence in the 
day time. 
Sericophanes triangularis n. sp. 
Slightly larger and broader than ocellatus; readily distinguished by the 
white triangular patches on the hemelytra, one at each side extending from 
the margin inward, the apex reaching the middle of the clavus; a second 
pair of transverse or triangular pale areas across the tips of the corium 
bordering the cuneus. General color dark yellowish brown, the hemelytra 
dull pale orange except for the triangular white spots with narrow fuscous 
borders. 
6. Length 3.4 mm. Head: width across the eyes .65 mm., vertex .28 
.mm., length .43 mm.; brown, shining, slightly paler on the lower side of 
the face; eyes large and coarsely granulated, extending back at the sides 
and forming the most posterior part of the head, purplish brown in color. 
Rostrum brownish, reaching beyond the posterior margin of the hind 
coxze and nearly to the middle of the venter. 
Antenne: segment I, length .25 mm.; II, length 1 mm.; III, length .71 
mm.; IV, length .63 mm.; yellowish to fuscous. 
Pronotum: length .57 mm., width at base .94 mm., apex .43 mm.; dark 
yellowish brown, smooth, shining, strongly declivitous, devoid of calli, 
collar broad and distinct, lateral margins of the disk rounded, slightly 
sulcate. Scutellum same color as the pronotum, strongly arched, thus dif- 
fering from noctuans and ocellatus; sternum yellowish brown, metasternal 
orifice pale. 
Hemelytra: width near apex or corium I mm., width at middle .94 mm.; 
dull pale orange and marked with silvery white and fuscous; a large sil- 
very white triangular area on each side extending from the margin inward, 
the apex attaining the middle of the clavus, narrowly margined with dark 
fuscous; a smaller triangular white area at the tip of the corium and bor- 
dering the cuneus, also a pale spot narrowly margined with fuscous at 
