446 BULLETIN UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SUEVEY. 



This is a translation of the Latin descriiJtion given by Dr. Stal in the 

 memoir quoted above. 



It is as yet not in any of the collections of the entomologists or mu- 

 seums of the Eastern United States. 



17, i^. coxalis. 



Acantliia coxalis Stal, Euum. Hemipt., iii, 149, No. 4. 



" Black, shining, clothed with very short gray pubescence ; the labrum, 

 tylus, two small spots on the front of the head, the lateral margins of 

 the pronotum slenderly from the base to beyond the middle, the front 

 margin of the anterior acetabulse, and the legs, pale yellowish. Heme- 

 lytra soiled-white, with fuscous nervures ; the clavus, the inner mar- 

 gin, and base of thecorium exteriorly with two longitudinal lines black, 

 and next to the apex with pale spot. Coxie and the extreme apex of 

 the tibife black. Posterior margin of the segments and the posterior 

 part of the sixth segment of the female whitish. 



"Length $ 4^ millimeters. Width of pronotum 2 millimeters. Width 

 across the hemelytra 2^ millimeters. 



" Inhabits Cuba." 



This species is also unknown to me. The above description is a trans- 

 lation of Dr. Stal's Latin one, from the paper cited above. 



18. 8. pallipes. 



Sald^ pallipes Fab., Syst. Eliyng., 115, No. 12. — H. Schf., Watiz. Ins., vi, fig. 600. 

 Moderately long-oval, thickly clothed above with appressed golden 

 pubescence, and fringed with almost erect pile. The head, fore part of 

 the pronotum, and basal parts of the hemelytra with erect black hairs. 

 Head from above short and blunt, the front nearly vertical, dull black, 

 moderately flat, minutely granulated, clothed with appressed golden 

 pubescence and some longer black erect pile ; inferior margin of clypeus 

 emarginated in the middle, thick, elevated into a slight ridge, yellow, 

 smooth ; tylus a little prominent, bald, narrowing inferiorly, and, to- 

 gether with the labrum, reddish-yellow ; the latter a little longer, pubes- 

 cent, infuscated at tip ; rostrum reaching to the tip of the middle coxjb, 

 piceous; antennae black, with short hairs; the first and second joints 

 more or less fulvous, black above and beneath. Ocelli black. Pronotum 

 very transverse, minutely scabrous, the sides arcuated, flattened, the 

 edge a little reflexed ; the posterior margin ver^' concave across the 

 scutellum ; the humeral lobes roundly produced; callosities occupying 

 half the length, moderately prominent, the central fovea deep and 

 transverse, the side-impressions obsolete, the bounding furrow deep; 

 scutellum convex, the central depression deep, sharply defined behind; 

 the base finely scabrous, the apical half rugulose. Hemelytra slightly 

 convex; clavus black, the apex with a large or small wedge-shaped 

 yellow spot; corium black at base, sharply distinguished from the rest 

 of the pale yellowish surface ; the basal one-third of the costal margin 



