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tennse; deep green, highly polished, very sparingly pubescent. Head 

 curved posteriorly, with the neck more defined than in the preceding 

 species, greenish-yellow, indented on the vertex, the transverse carina 

 a little arched, with the surface in front of it a little depressed ; middle 

 of cranium with a roundish, large, black shield, which connects with the 

 black cilor of the face ; the whole face, under side, and base of the head 

 polished black; tylus abruptly elevated, prominent, a little scooped out 

 each side, not impressed at base, pubescent at tip ; eyes brown, promi- 

 nent. Rostrum reaching upon the intermediate coxse, greenish ; the last 

 joint piceous; the basal joint very broad, rounded at tip ; biicculfe pale. 

 Antennae as long as the entire hemelytra; pronotum and vertex con- 

 joined, black, excepting the basal joint, which is green excepting the 

 black tip and under side next the tip; the basal joint longer than the width 

 between the eyes ; second very long; third a little shorter, dusky; fourth 

 scarcely shorter than the first, also dusky. Pronotum campanulate, longer 

 than wide, obsoletely rugose, yellow anteriorly, clothed with white, re- 

 mote, pubescence, with a large, round, black spot each side, the surface 

 distinctly sloping toward the sinnated sides; posterior margiii feebly con- 

 vex, the lateral angles subacutely prominent, with the margin behind 

 them almost sinuated. Scutellum green, feebly convex, with a slightly 

 depressed black spot near the middle at ba?e, from which a blunt faint 

 carina runs backward to the tip. Propleura with a large black spot 

 reaching to the base of the cox^ne ; sternum dull blackish, and sometimes 

 also the greater part of the meso- and meta-pleurte. Coxse green, a little 

 dusky at base; legs green, or greenisji-yellow, the tips of tibiae and tarsi 

 and the nails piceous. Hemelytra clear, deep green, reuiotely whitish- 

 pubescent, remotely punctate, with a blackish streak on the disk of the 

 corium ; costal margin thick and prominent; membrane black or black- 

 ish, with the basal margin and che nervures pale greenish ; wings black- 

 ish. Tergum black, shining; venter blackish, or with the outer margins 

 pale, the whole surface minutely sericeous pubescent. G-enital segment 

 of the male pale piceous or yellow, the right side with a long triangu- 

 lar lamina extending obliquely toward the left and terminating in a 

 long slender hook, which curves far backward. 



Length to tip of venter 4-5 millimeters; to tip of membrane 5-7 mil- 

 limeters. Width of base of pronotum 1^-2 millimeters. 



Inhabits Eastern Massachusetts, Kew York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, 

 in places with long grass, in June; Ohio, Southern Illinois, and Texas. 

 Fragments of a male, a little stouter than usual, were brought from the 

 borders of Russian America, in the far nortliern part of the British 

 possessions. Missouri, C. Y. Riley. 



Orthops Fieber. 

 O. SGutellatus, new sp. 



Form of 0. peUuGldus Fieber. Greenish-yellow when fresh. Head 

 yellow, smooth, highly polished, impunctate; tylus black and connect- 

 ing with a long black spot, which runs back to near the base of vertex; 



