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edge uarrowly recurved ; propleume dotted with fuscous, the meso- and 

 meta-pleurne pale, a little tiuged with piceous on the disks. Legs pale 

 brownish, or dull testaceous, dotted with fuscous ; the coxai clouded 

 with fuscous, and the femora and tibite more or less piceous on the upper 

 face, and the latter sometimes also on the under face ; tarsal joints either 

 black beneath or at the apex or with the last joint; nails and pul villi 

 piceous. Scutellum short, acute, minutely rugulose and punctate at 

 base and in patches, minutely dotted with fuscous at remote, unequal 

 intervals. Hemelytra very broad, and with the costal margin more 

 arcuated in the female than in the male, and with the cells shorter and 

 more irregular; the nervules thick, prominent, margined each side, 

 throughout, with fuscous, impressed punctures; the costal edge thick- 

 ened, a little, recurved, the submargin punctate with fuscous; apical 

 cells longer and less oblique-sided in the female than in the male. 

 Tergum more or less black, and the venter black basally, or with the 

 disks only of the segments before the apex black, or with all the seg- 

 ments simply punctate with fuscous. . The surface is generally invested 

 with minute, prostrate, yellowish pubescence. 



Length to tip of hemelytra 7-9 millimeters. Width of pronotum 2J- 

 3 millimeters. 



One specimen from near Manitou, August 13. Other specimens have 

 been taken in Kansas, Utah, Illinois, and Connecticut. 



Parapholis, new gen. 



Aspect of Eupelix Burm., but with the head forming a more symmetri- 

 cally rounded scale, and with the ocelli placed on the back of the ver- 

 tex, a little in atlvance of the anterior line of the eyes. Head extremely 

 depressed and thin, composing a disk which is a very little wider than 

 long, with the sides obliquely rounded and meeting at tip almost in an 

 angle; front very long-elliptical, very convex and prominent, with the 

 adjoining fore part of the face correspondingly depressed ; the outer 

 cheeks narrow and long, sinuated exteriorly, and curving inwardly with 

 an acutely angular tip ; the inner cheeks small and very narrow, almost 

 confined to the sides of the epistoma. Antennae very short, stout at 

 base, the two basal joints subequal, roundish, the third much narrower, 

 conical, thence tapering and setaceous. Pronotum transverse, the 

 latero-posterior sides long and sinuated ; the middle of the posterior 

 margin also angularly sinuated. Posterior lobe of the scutellum very 

 long, narrow, and acuminate at tip. Hemelytra long, steep behind the 

 base, wider posteriorly, the inner margin straight, and at tip slightly 

 valvate, the costal margin broadly arcuated ; nervules coarse and wide 

 apart, the apical cells blunt, short and broad, five in number, the outer 

 one triangular at base, the inner one oblique, subtrapezoidal; tip ob- 

 liquely rounded. 



P. peltata, new sp. 

 Pale green, elongate, flattened disk-like in front, and wedge-shaped 



