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appressed, fuscous pubescence. Head stout, obliquely curving, almost 

 vertical, pale tawny, inscribed with black on the vertex and with a black 

 spot behind, the base convex ; clypeus longitudinally indented at the 

 base of the tylus ; front with an indented, oblique, brown line each side, 

 and the usual impressed line in tbe middle; basal margin of the eyes 

 and an impressed line bounding the quadrangular bed of the ocelli 

 blackish; ocelli honey-yellow. Rostrum reaching upon the base of the 

 posterior coxoe, slender, yellowish, becoming piceous toward the tip. 

 Antennre stout, setose, pale flavo-piceous, more or less dusky, particu- 

 larly on the last two joints, the basal pale, short, thickened toward the 

 tip; second joint very long and slender, faintly thicker at tip; fourth 

 much longer than the basal and a little shorter than the third. Pro- 

 notum transverse, closely punctate, short, the sides ver^^ oblique, broadly 

 reflexed ; the anterior margin truncate, with a slender collum extending 

 along its entire length, the anterior angles rectangular; the posterior mar- 

 gin coucavely a little siuuated, with the outer angles moderately lobed, 

 truncated at the end, and a little folded, and bounded on the inner side 

 of the fold by an impressed short line ; the anterior lobe moderately 

 convex, variegated with black, transversely impressed, and with a few 

 coarse punctures in the impression; the impressed line environing the 

 lobe sharply defined, brown, and set with small punctures. Prosternum 

 whitish, a little inscribed with piceous, finely sericeous pubescent ; meso- 

 pleurse black, sericeous pubescent, more or less bounded and invaded 

 with tawny; metapleurse tawny, sericeous pubescent. Coxse a little 

 piceous at or near the base; legs tawny; the femora more or less dotted 

 with brown, pubescent; the apex and spines of the tibice and the ends 

 of the tarsal joints dark piceous; nails pale piceous. Scutellum finely, 

 closely punctate, yellow, blackish on the base and disk, finely sericeous 

 pubescent. Corium pale, dull clay-yellow, remotely sericeous pubescent, 

 lialer at base and tip, a little more coarsely punctate; the costal margin 

 broadly arcuated at base, the expansion there wide and thin ; costal 

 area broad, pale, in fuscated on the inner side, sutures, and nervures; 

 centers of a few of the outer, discal, and apical areoles whitish, with dusky 

 iiervules ; the clavus dusky ; membrane pale, dull testaceous, with strong, 

 slightly curved, piceous nervules, inclosing five long areoles. Venter 

 pale, obsoletely punctate, closely invested with pale, minute, prostrate 

 pubescence. 



A variety of the male is more dusky on the hemelytra, has the disk 

 of the venter (excepting the edges of the segments) piceous, and irreg- 

 ular series of brown dots on the sides. The male genital segment is 

 long, semi-oval, densely set with long hairs. 



Length to tip of venter 4-5 millimeters; to tip of membrane 5-6 mil- 

 limeters. Width of base of pronotum lf-2 millimeters. 



This species is exceedingly abundant on the discolored sandy and 

 marshy brown spots of the tide-water districts of Eastern Massachusetts 

 and Maryland. Some of these tracts of country are no longer within 



