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iow; the anal segment of the male with tufts of fulvous bristles above 

 and below. 



Length to tip of heiuelytra 6 millimeters. Width of pronotuin 2 mil- 

 limeters. 



Thus far I have found it only once, on the salt-marshes of the New 

 Jersey coast, in August. 



# 

 Bythoscopus Germ. 



1. B. pallidus. 



Idiocerus 2)alUdus Fitcli, Ins. N. Y. State Cabinet, 59, No. 5. 

 This species proved to be quite common in Clear Creek Caiiou, also 

 near the South Platte River and its tributaries near Denver, and at 

 Manitou and Colorado Springs, chiefly upon willows, August 6 to 18. 



2. B. verticis. 



Jassiis verticis Say, Jonrn. Acad. Phila., vi, .308. No. 6. 

 Found upon willows, at Denver, August 9 to 18. 



3. B. ramentosus, new sp. 



Form of B. paUidus, broader and more robusr than B. verticis; pale 

 testaceous, more or less clouded with rust-brown and fulvous. Head 

 broad and short, fulvous above, yellow inferiorly ; vertex with a round 

 black spot each side and a smaller black dot each side interior to the 

 ocelli ; face sometimes irregularly marked with small brown spots and 

 lines, those above being arranged transversely, and those below in a 

 horseshoe arc; epistoma chestiiut-brown, with the base and middle 

 line testaceous ; rostrum pale testaceous. Pronotum transverse, short, 

 pale testaceous, with a chestnut-brown uneven cloud on the disk, leav- 

 ing an abbreviated line of the ground-color along the middle ; each side 

 near the outer margins with a few brown patches ; the posterior mar- 

 gin feebly sinuated, and the lateral margins very obliqiie and a little 

 curved. Scutellum pale testaceous, a triangular black spot near each 

 basal angle, and a blackish dot each side of the middle of the disk ; the 

 base and sides more or less fuh'ous. Beneath pale yellow, with two or 

 more black spots on the center of the pleural pieces. Coxre with a few 

 .traces of brown ; femora and tibifE with a few brown streaks ; tarsi 

 banded with brown, the nails and pulvilli pioeous. Hemelj'tra pale 

 testaceous, or even milky-w^hite, the areoles and tips of the nervures 

 pale brownish ; costal and sutural margins and basal part of nervure 

 pale; wings hyaline, faintly tinged with brown, the nervures fuscous. 



L«;ngth to tip of hemelytra 5-5i millimeters. Width of pronotum 

 1^-2 millimeters. 



On willows in the city of Denver; also in Clear Creek Canon and at 

 Manitou. 



The upper surface of the head and the pronotum are frequently vari- 

 egated with brown, fulvous, and yellow in areas of different sizes; aud 

 the face lacks the spots, or a portion of them, from the front and cheeks. 



