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ZoPHOESSA, Dallas. 



1. Z. consocia. New sp. 



Form of Z. porosa, Germar ; brownish-black, with a brassy tiuge ; 

 minutely sericeous pubescent. Head more broadly, less abruptly sinu- 

 ated each side; antenniie piceous ; the base and tip of the second, third, 

 and fourth joints, and the basal joint entirely, testaceous ; the basal and 

 apical SLibequal, longer than the others ; the third shortest ; rostrum 

 pale yellowish, invaded with piceous on the basal, third, and apical 

 joints. Pronotum narrowly, transversely, but deeply and abruptly, in- 

 cised; anterior to this is another incised line, which does not reach the 

 lateral margins ; the lateral margin less deeply sinuated than in Z. porosa. 

 Corium testaceous at tip. Tarsi testaceous ; the last joint and nails 

 piceous. Scutellum widened posteriorly, crossed by several impressed 

 lines between the base and the middle ; the surface broken into re- 

 ticulated ridges of more or less distinctness •, on the base each side of 

 the middle is an elongated spot; the middle line interruptedly, and 

 several small, irregular spots at tip, yellow ; the apical margin bluntly", 

 a little obliquely, rounded. Yellow spots of the edge of connexivum 

 small. 2 . 



Length, 5 millimeters. Width of pronotum, scant 3 millimeters. 



Inhabits Arizona (John Akhurst). 



The surface is closely and deeply punctured, as in the other species. 



2. Z. poTosa. 



Pachycoris porosus, Germar, Zeits. i, 108, No. 56. 

 Zophoessa j)orosa, Dallas, Brit. Mus. List Hemipt. i, 43. 



Inhabits California, Texas, Florida, «&;c. 



Subfamily EUEYGASTRINA. 

 EURYGASTEE, Lap. 



E. alternatus. 



Tetyra alternaia, Say, Amer. Ent. tab. iii, 4.3, fisj. 3. 



Eiirygaster alternatus, Dallas, Brit. Mus. List Hemipt. i, 47, No. 1. 



Inhabits the hills of Colorado in September. Collected by Lieut. W. 

 L. Carpenter. It is quite common in many parts of the cold division of 

 the north-temperate zone, extending quite aci'oss the continent from 

 Maine to Puget Sound, and south to near San Francisco. On the east- 

 ern side of the continent, it has not yet been captured as far south as 

 Maryland. 



Subfamily P0D0PL\A. 



P. duhms. 



PoDOPS, Lnp. 



Scutellera dulia, Pal., Beanv. Ins. Afr. et Amer. 33, pi. 5, fig. 6. 

 Tetyra cinctipes, Say, Amer. Eut. iii, tab. 43, tig. 2. 



Inhabits Nebraska, Minnesota, Texas, and generally' throughout the 

 Atlantic region from Massachusetts to Florida. 



Phimodera, Germ. 

 P. torpida. 



Phimodera torpida, Walker, Brit. Mus. Catal. of Hemipt. pt. i, 75, No. 4. 



Black ; dull ; elliptical ; slightly convex ; minutely punctured. Head 

 subquadrate, less than half the breadth of the pronotum ; the tylus 



