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braue short, broadly rounded, pale brownish. Yenter very convex, 

 polished, ciliated across the segments, and with long hairs on the outer 

 edge of the counexivum ; the lateral and posterior surface minutely 

 punctured. 



Length, 4^ millimeters. Width of prouotum, 2|- millimeters. Width 

 of venter, 3 millimeters. 



Inhabits Calit'ornia (James Behrens). 



In one specimen, there is a transverse, impressed line placed a little 

 before the posterior margin of the prouotum ; in another, this line is 

 hardly visible. 



TmcHOCORis, Uhler. 



Oval, moderately convex above, more or less hirsute, very convex 

 beneath. Head bluntly semicircular, deeply seated in the prouotum ; 

 the anterior angles of the prouotum protracted as far as the middle of 

 the eyes. Eyes sunk to the middle in the margin of the head ; the ocelli 

 placed not far from them, and. on a line with their base. Submargin of 

 the clypeus with erect, stout, short spines ; the margin a little recurved ; 

 tylus broad, flat, not narrowed anteriorly, defined almost to the base 

 of the cranium ; the lateral lobes longer, but curving in front of it. 

 Eostrum reaching beyond the anterior cox?e ; the second joint longest, 

 but not as long as the third and fourth united, compressed ; the third, 

 and fourth subequal. Antennae moderately stout ; basal joint subcylin- 

 drical, slightly curved, as long as the fifth ; second shortest ; third some- 

 what longer, conical at base ; the fourth and fifth equal, stouter, fusiform ; 

 the latter acute at tip. Prouotum transverse, trapezoidal ; the lateral 

 margins obliquely narrowing anteriorly, and gently curved. Odoriferous 

 canal running outward almost half-way to the lateral margin, slenderly 

 sulcated, situated rather remotely from the suture, becoming slightly 

 tubular at the outer end ; the plate on which it is placed narrow, acutely 

 triangular beyond the osteole. Scutellum about two-thirds as long as 

 the abdomen, broad and long, bluntly rounded at tip, the base con- 

 vexly prominent, the sides not sinuated. Hemelytra broad, a little 

 wider than the abdomen, shorter than the scutellum, the costal margin 

 broadly arcuated ; the posterior margin of the corium bluntly oblique, 

 a little sinuated ; membrane obliquely declining. Legs stout ; femora 

 compressed, ciliated, expanded before the tip ; the anterior tibise a little 

 less compressed than in Cyrtomenus, subtriquetral when seen from 

 above ; the long, stout spines arranged in a whorl at tip ; posterior tibiae 

 much longer than the intermediate. Venter obesely convex ; the seg- 

 ments fringed with long, remote cilise ; the lateral margins densely set 

 with long hairs. 



T. conformis. ^ew sp. 



Moderately broad-oval, blackish-piceous, densely clothed exteriorly, 

 and less densely superficially, with long ferruginous hair. Head flat, 

 coarsely i)unctured in more or less oblique lines, or irregularly punctured 

 and wrinkled, clothed each side with long, remote, erect hairs ; spines 

 of the submargin close set, erect ; the tip of the tylus armed with two 

 spines; apex of the clypeus quadrately emargiuate. Antennae rust- 

 brown ; the basal joints somewhat i^iceous ; the third, fourth, and fifth 

 joints particularly clothed with fine yellow pubescence. Lateral margin 

 and eyes reddish-brown. Eostrum reaching behind the anterior coxje; 

 the basal joint almost hid by the bucculse ; the secoud longest, almost 

 as loug as the third and fourth together ; the third and fourth subequal. 

 Prouotum blackish-piceous, sometimes tinged with rufous on the lateral 



