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Superfamily REDUVIOIDEA. 



Family EEDUVIID^. 



Subfamily EEDUVIIN^. 



SiNEA Amyot et Serv. 

 8. diadema. 



Eeduvms diadema Fab., Geuera lus., 302 ; Ent. Syst,, iv, 206, No. 46. 

 Beduvms raptatorius Say, American Entomology, ii, pi. 31. 

 Sinea diadema Stal, Enum. Hemipt., ii, 70, No. 1. 



Swept from weeds in the suburbs of Denver, August 8. It did not oc- 

 cur in numbers, as in Maryland and other States. Eoving about from 

 place to place in fields and near woods, it ascends the Golden-rod and 

 other plants, and seizes such insects as come within its reach. 



DiPLODUS StM. 

 D. luridus. 



Diplodus luridus Stal, Stettin. Ent. Zeit., xsiii, 452. 



Collected by Dr. Packard, July 13-16, at Manitou and in the Garden 



of the Gods. One specimen was found by myself near Colorado Springs, 



August 10. 



Subfamily APIOMERINiE. 



Apiomerus Hahn. 



1. A. flaviventris. 



Ainomerus flaviventris H.-Scbf., Wanz. Ins., viii, 77, fig. 847. — Stal, Enumeratio 

 Hemipt., ii, 98, No. 16. 



Dr. Packard secured specimens of the brown variety on the foot-hills, 

 at the mouth of Clear Creek Caiion, on July 3, and in the Garden of the 

 Gods and at Manitou, July 13-15. 



A larva of this species was swept by me from some bush in Clear 

 Creek Caiiou, near the mouth of Beaver Brook Gulch, August 7. 



2. A. spissipes. 



Eeduvius spissipes Say, Journ. Acad. Pbila., i, 199, No, 20. 

 Apiomerus spissipes Stal, Enum. Hemipt., ii, 98, No. 15. 



One specimen from the valley of the Arkansas, near Caiion City, Au- 

 gust 11. 



Family SALD^. 



Form oval or long-ovate. Head vertical, from above 5-angled, be- 

 tween the eyes broader than long j ocelli 2 ; the tylus prominent, cylin- 

 drical ; superior cheeks short, obtuse; the bucculi© long, broad, rounded 

 plates, partly covering the base of the rostrum. First joint of antenujB 

 short, cylindrical ; second the longest, cylindrical ; the third and fourth 

 generally a little fusiform, and more or less thickened. Eyes projecting 

 prominently outward and backward. Pronotum trapezoidal, with the 

 anterior side much the shortest, the posterior side the longest, and the 



