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confined to western IiTorth America, no specimens having been discov- 

 ered east of the Mississippi Eiver. 



Melanolestes, Stal. 



1. M.picipes, H. Schf., (Wanz. Ins., vol. VIII, p. 62, PL 269, Fig. 831.)— 

 Collected by Dr. E. Palmer, near Fort Cobb, Indian Territory j it has 

 been found as far west as San Francisco, and is common in many parts 

 of the Atlantic and Gulf States. 



2. M. abdominalis, H. Schf., (Wanz. Ins., vol. YIII, p. 63, PI. 269, Fig. 

 832.) — Found with the preceding. A specimen of this species has been 

 sent to me from Southwestern Mexico. 



Stenopoda, Lap. 



8. cinerea, Laporte, (Essai sur les Hemipteres, p. 26, PI. 52, Fig. 2.) — 

 A pupa of this species was obtained by Dr. E. Palmer, near Fort Cobb. 

 It is a species well known from Cuba, Texas, and Florida. 



Family Sax,d^. 

 Salda, Fab. 



• 1. S. inter slitialis^ Say, (Jour. Acad. Phila., IV, p. 324.) — Collected 

 at Snake Eiver, Idaho, and by Dr. Palmer at Fort Defiance, New 

 Mexico. It extends east into I^few England, and along the Atlantic 

 region into Maryland. 



2. 8. coriacea. New species. — General form of 8. littoralis, Linn., of 

 Europe. Black, j)olished; face densely, minutely shagreened, hairy; 

 cranium minutely pubescent, faintly grooved on the middle ; before the 

 ocelli are two raised tubercles, placed remotely from each other ; tylus 

 and labrum yellowish ; the rostrum piceous, reaching to the posterior 

 coxae. Eyes large, prominent, brown, placed very obliquely. Antennse 

 black, slender; the second joint sometimes pale piceous, more than twice 

 as long as the basal one; the third and fourth subequal in length. Pro- 

 notum trapezoidal, the anterior side very much shorter than the basal ; 

 the lateral margins very oblique, hardly arcuated, the edge recurved ; 

 surface minutely shagreened, sparsely pubescent ; , the callosities obso- 

 lete, their locality faintly convex, with an indented, punctured, trans- 

 verse line posteriorly; the posterior angles acute, with the margin 

 behind the humeri very acutely oblique. Legs honey-yellow, or smoke- 

 brown, usually darkened at the tip of tibse and on the ends of the tarsa,l 

 joints. Pectus highly polished, remotely, minutely pubescent, minutely 

 wrinkled. Scutellum densely, minutely granulated. Hemeiytra very 

 convex, widest at some distance behind the middle, very considerably 

 polished, remotely, coarsely, obsoletely punctured; the clavus bounded 

 on the inner submargin and outer suture by an indented line of punc- 

 tures ; membrane coalescing with the corium, indistinctly piceous, some- 

 times with about three faintly yellowish spots between the long nervures. 

 Venter brilliant black, closely, minutely punctured, coated with fine, 

 sparse pubescence. 



Length, 6-7 millimeters. Width across the humeri, 2 millimeters. 

 Greatest width across the corium, 3 J millimeters. 



Brought from Ogden, Utah. It is also found in New England, Brit- 

 ish America, and Illinois. 



