UHLER ON INSECTS. 467 



It occurrec] at Maoitoii aud uear Caiion City, upon small bashes near 

 water, August 11-16. 



2. P, robustiis, new sp. 



Shorter and more robust than the preceding species, with a shorter 

 and blunter vertex. Color pea-green, yellowish when faded. Face 

 broad and short, the surface microscopically punctate and very minutely 

 wrinkled across the whole width ; cheeks broad, a little angular exte- 

 riorly, emarginated next the anterior coxae ; antennae short, yellowish ; 

 eyes fuliginous; rostrum dusky at tip. Pronotum transverse, feebly 

 convex, transversely wrinkled ; the posterior margin a little concave; 

 the lateral margins oblique, a little arcuated, with the edge recurved; 

 the lateral angles triangular, a little rounded at tip ; postero-lateral 

 margin oblique, hardly sinuated. Legs pale green, with the sockets of 

 the tibial spines, the apical margins of the tarsal joints, the nails, and 

 pulvilli piceous. Scutellum transversely wrinkled, and with a trans- 

 verse, arcuated, impressed line on the middle. Hemelytra beset with 

 short, oblique, .black bristles in the punctures all over the surface, the 

 tip a little narrow, slightly infuscated within the margin ; the nervures 

 brighter green, the inner, bounding one, apically, oblique, angularly 

 emarginated at base ; the apical areoles short, the central one quad- 

 rangular ; wings whitish. Tergum more or less orange on the disk ; 

 venter yellowish-green, set with remote, small punctures, and remotely 

 pubescent, the tip with bundles of longer hairs. 



Length to tip of venter 4 millimeters ; to tip of hemelytra 4J milli- 

 meters. Width of pronotum 2 millimeters. 



Inhabits New Mexico aud Texas. Two fine specimens from Waco 

 were sent to me by G. W. Belfrage. 



The tegmina are thick and more opaque than in the delicate green 

 Gyponas, and in this species rather more so thfin in the preceding one. 

 The male is as yet imknown to me. 



Pediopsis Burm. 

 P. viridis. 



Pediopsis viridis Fitch, Insects New York State Cabinet, 59, 

 One specimen from the willow, in Clear Creek Caiion, and another 

 from the vicinity of Caiion City. 



Jassus Germar. 



1. J. irroratus. 



Ja>isus irroratus Say, Jouru. Acad. Phila., vi, 303, No. 7. 

 Jassus testudinarius Burm., Genera Insect. Jassus, No. 4. 



Common in most parts of the United States u])0u a great variety of 

 plants and bushes. I secured specimens in tlie suburbs of Denver and 

 in the valley of the Arkansas. 



2. J. excultus, new sp. 



Pale testaceous, marked and marbled with pale brown and fuscous, 



