182 . PBOF. p. B. TTHLEB ON THE [Mar. 6, 



liYQ JEID JE. 



Ntsitjs, Dallas. 



1. Ntsitts pbotidus, sp. nov. 



Oblong, narrow ; greyish yellow, the upper surface more or less 

 clouded with fuscous, greyish pubescent. Head long, nearly as 

 wide between the front of the eyes as the width of the apex of 

 pronotum ; the surface closely pubescent, marked along the middle 

 with a slender, yellow, feebly raised Hue ; the surface between the 

 eyes granulated, the granules each side of middle arranged in Hues, 

 punctures few, indistinct ; the tylus pale fulvous anteriorly, 

 bounded each side at base by a small knob placed next a dark band ; 

 middle of gula, including the bucculae, blackish piceous ; rostrum 

 slender, fusco-piceous or tinged with fuscous, reaching between 

 the posterior coxae ; antennae dull testaceous, the base and inner 

 side of basal ioiut, base and apex of second, and base of fourth joint 

 blackish. Pronotum longer than wide, obscurely bilobed, impressed 

 and rather abruptly sinuated on the sides behind the anterior lobe ; 

 the svirface transversely wrinkled, unevenly punctate with piceous, 

 less so on the anterior lobe, the apical border black ; the surface be- 

 fore the humerus spread with a blackish spot, which includes the 

 knob-like angle, but leaves a yellow spot next thereto ; the lateral 

 margin obsoletely cariuate, indented before the anterior angle, the 

 middle with a pale yellow, slender line ; posterior margin a little 

 arched, sometimes bordered with black, having the posthumeral 

 border depressed, expanded, and pale yellow. Mesosternum black 

 in the middle, with the costal segment and the coxa tipped with 

 brown ; the anterior and posterior coxae mostly testaceous. Legs 

 testaceous, the femora banded with concurrent dark brown spots ; 

 the tibiae piceous at base and tip, and the tarsi piceous, excepting 

 the testaceous base. Scutellum obsoletely punctate, with a dark, 

 transverse, subluaate callosity, having a blackish cavity in front 

 of it at base, the apical division paler, acutely carinate at tip. 

 Hemelytra dull whitish or testaceous, punctate with fuscous, 

 finely pubescent, acutely prolonged, with the cuneus rufous ; the 

 costal area narrow, pale testaceous, with a few brown points, the 

 veins interrupted with brown ; membrane semitransparent, with the 

 veins more or less brownish. Yenter rufo-testaceous, more or less 

 sprinlded with darker brown ; the ovipositor blackish. 



Length to tip of venter 3|-5 mm. ; width of pronotum 1-1 1 mm. 

 This is the common and widely distributed species which has 

 hitherto been wTongly referred to iV. scolojja.r, Say. The true N. 

 scolopax has a rostrum which reaches to the middle of the venter, 

 which is not the case in the species here described. Our species 

 inhabits North America from Quebec to Arizona, from thence it 

 spreads into Mexico and Central America, and following south it 

 is found on the Isthmus of Panama, and in Colombia and Northern 

 Brazil. In the West Indies it occurs in Trinidad, Grenada, 



