IJHLER ON liNSEOTS. 415" 



Family PHYTOCORIDJE. 



MoNALOCORis Dahlb. 

 M. Jilicis, 



Cimexfilicis Liun., S.yst. Nat., ii, 718, No, 20, 

 AcantMa fd'icis Wolff', Icon. Cim., 46, tab. 5, fig. 43. 

 JBri/ocoris filicis Koleuati, Meletemata Eutom., ii, 129. 



Monalocoris fiUcis Fieber, Europ. Heinipt., 237. — Douglas and Scott, British He- 

 mipt., 279, pi. 10, fig. 2. 



One specitneu from the mouutaius adjoiaiug Clear Creek Canon, Au- 

 gust 6. It was swept from a small fern which grows in damp places 

 among the rocks high up in the mountains near Bdsaver Brook. 



Brachytropis Fieber. 

 B. calcarata. 



Miris calcaralm Fallen, Heniipt. Suec, 131, No. 5. 

 Brachytropis calcaratus Fieber, Europ. Heinipt., 241. 



^STear water, in weedy pla ;es, on the outskirts of Denver, Colo., Au- 

 gust 4. 



Trigonotylus Fieber. 

 2\ rujicornis. 



Miris ruficorms Fallen, Heraipt. Suec, i, 133, No. 8. 

 Trigonotyhts ruficorms Fieber, Europ. Hemipt., 243. 



Some specimens of the normal type occurred upon weeds and grass 

 in damp situations near Denver, and also on the hills near water a few 

 miles west of Denver. 



Miris Fieber. 

 M. instabilis. 



Miris instabilis Uhler, Bull. U. S. Geol. Surv., vol. ii, No. 5, p. 50. 



The yellow variety occurred upon the weeds near water in the suburbs 

 of Denver. A beautiful green variety, strongly marked with fuscous, 

 was collected from rank-growing plants in Beaver Brook Gulch, Au- 

 gust 6. 



Phytocuris Fallen. 



1. P. nuhilus. 



Capsus mibiliis Say, Heteropt. New Harmony, 22, No. 10. 

 Phytocoris nubilus Uhler, Bull. U. S. Geol. Surv., vol. ii. No. 5, p. 51. 



A single specimen from near Denver, August 4. 



2. P. inops^ new sp. 



More slender than P. nubilus^ and more regularly elliptical, with the 

 sides of the pronotum more oblique and not sinuated. Color i^ale ash- 

 gray or light brown ; the legs and anteuufe very slender. Head long, 

 triangular anteriorly, pale yellow, spotted with brown, the cheeks mar- 

 gined with brown, and the tylus with a reddish-brown spot, the upper 

 surface clothed with grayish hairs ; buccukc dark brown ; rostrum reach- 

 ing the middle of the venter, slender, distinctly compressed at base, 

 pale yellow, tinged with brown near the base and at tip, the basal 

 joint much longer than the head, the second and fourth longer, 



