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fourth a little more slender, as short or shorter than the basal joint. 

 Prouotiuu a little wider than long, broadly a little convex, the sides 

 rounded off, the lateral margins concave; posterior margin arcuated, 

 the anterior margin concave; callosities large, convex, transverse, 

 bounded behind by an impressed line, separated in the middle by a 

 transverse indentation. Legs stout, the thighs compressed, posterior 

 tibiiie very long ; basal joint of tarsi shorter than the second. Scntel- 

 lum almost equilateral, the surface even, very feebly convex. Hemely- 

 tra flat, the costal margin strongly carinate, almost straight. 

 1. S. chloris, new sp. 



Pale green, or greeni.sh-white, elongate, pubescent. Head long, 

 five-angled, almost vertical, pale green, polished, clothed with sparse, 

 long, whitish pubescence; center of the vertex posteriorly with a short 

 black line, indented in front, which connects with a subquadrangular 

 black ring bounding the inflation of the cranium ; face black, highly 

 polished, the superior cheeks green ; space beneath, before, and above 

 the eyes also green ; throat and base black. Eyes brown. Bucculfe 

 margined with green. Rostrum testaceous, reaching to the back of 

 the posterior coxie, the third and fourth joint piceous. Antennie as 

 long as the hemelytra including the membrane, black or piceous, with 

 the two last joints dusky ; basal joint a little shorter than the width be- 

 tween the eyes; second joint as long as from the front of cranium to the 

 base of the pronotura; the third a little shorter; fourth shortest. Pro- 

 notum transverse, green, yellow anteriorly, clothed with erect, long, 

 whitish pubescence, the middle longitudinal line a little depressed, and 

 sometimes having a few black points anteriorly; each side of middle with 

 a round black dot ; anterior angles obliquely rounded, the posterior 

 ones i)rominent, with the margin behind them arcuated. Scutellum 

 bright green, sparsely clothed with white hairs, the basal middle with 

 a black spearhead-mark. Sternum black ; the deflected propleura green, 

 polished; the other pleural segments blackish, margined with white. 

 Coxae more or less dusky, but green at tip ; legs green, the tibife at the 

 tip and the tarsi piceous, the nails black. Corium and clavus apple- 

 green, sometimes a little sprinkled with black, obsoletely rugulose, mod- 

 erately clothed with white, long, oblique, pubescence ; membrane smoky, 

 paler at base, the nervures greenish ; wings smoky. Venter black, 

 broadly greenish-white each side of disk, neatly clothed with silky 

 white pubescence, the segments more or less margined with white. 



Length to tip of venter 3-3^ millimeters. Width of pronotum li^ 

 millimeters. Length of hemelytron 3^ millimeters. 



An elegant little Capsid, of which I found a few setting singly upon 

 the flowers of a slender pale Composite, growing in Mauitou Park, Au- 

 gust 14. Another specimen was swept from some weed in the vicinity 

 of Colorado Springs, in the low grouuds near the Fountain Creek. 



2. S. malina, new sp. 

 Larger and more slender than the preceding species, with longer an- 



