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South. In some parts of England, it inhabits the sea-sbore. Specimens 

 from the United States have thus far been collected only in Illinois and 

 Utah. 



11. S.poUta, new sp. 



Elliptical, highly polished, jet-black, very indistinctly punctate ; the 

 whole upper surface set with erect, remote, brown hairs. Head from 

 above short, vertical in front and a little decurving, dull black, densely 

 and irregularly scabrous and rugnlose, the raised margin of the clypeus 

 and the tylus ferruginous or pale piceous. Eostrum pale piceous, 

 reaching between the intermediate coxse ; base of vertex a little convex, 

 formed into a distinct neck, contracted on the occiput 5 eyes very prom- 

 inent, brown, placed obliquely. Antennre setulose, moderately long, 

 stout, the two apical joints about as stout as the basal one ; basal joint 

 short, blackish-piceous, paljn above ; second joint much shorter than 

 the two apical ones unite^pale piceous or dull yellow; two apical 

 joints dusky black, subfusiform, subequal in length, but much longer 

 than the basal one. Pronotum subtrapezoidal, transverse, short, highly 

 polished; the callosities forming the anterior lobe very convex, not 

 reaching the sides, with a large, indented point in the center; the pos- 

 terior lobe much shorter, arched, higher than the anterior one, deeply 

 concave, the humeral angles long, broad, and flat, subtruncated, with 

 an oblong tubercle near the outer angle ; the impressed line around the 

 callosities very deep-seated, punctate ; lateral submargins broadly flat-, 

 tened rugulose, the edge recurved, decurving anteriorly. Pleural pieces 

 dull black, obsoletely and minutely punctate; the prosternum very 

 short, scarcely covering the base of the coxse. Coxse black ; femora dull 

 yellow or ferruginous, the under side of the anterior pair piceous ; tibiae 

 dull yellow, their tips, the tarsi, and nails piceous. Scutellum moder- 

 ately convex, obsoletely scabrous at base ; the apical portion a little less 

 prominent than the base, and the depression between them shallow ; the 

 surface faintly rugulose. Hemelytra flat, ferruginous, the clavus dusky 

 black, and the costal area jet-black, polished, the whole surface mi- 

 nutely scabrous ; the costal margin moderately arcuated, a little broadly 

 and almost uniformly reflexed ; membrane very long, pale dull yellow- 

 ish, somewhat clouded basally, the nervules piceous, long, and almost 

 straight. Venter black, highly polished, minutely punctate and pubes- 

 cent; the genital segment and sometimes the posterior edges of the 

 others testaceous. The costal margin is testaceous in two specimens, in 

 which the black of that area is much reduced and limited to the poste- 

 rior portion, inwardly. 



Length to tip of membrane 4^-5| millimeters. Width of base of pro- 

 notum 1^-lf millimeters. 



From San Diego, Oal. Kindly sent to me for examination by Dr. 

 Hagen from the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 



