295 



Protenoe, Stal. 

 P. BelfrageL 



Frotenor Bi'lfragci, Hagluud, Stettiner Eut. Zeit. xxis, 162; Stu], Eauineratio 

 Hemipt. i, 217. 



Inhabits Texas, Micbigau, Illinois, Vv^isconsiii, Colorado, and occurs 

 rare]3- in Maryland. 



Subfamily MEROCORINA. 



CoRYNOCOKis, Mayr. 

 C. distinctns. 



Crinocerus acridloklcs, H.-Scbf., Waiiz. Ins. vi, 20, fig. 57.5. 

 Merocoris disiiiictus, Dallas, Brit. Mus. List Hemipt. ii, 419, 2. 



Inhabits Texas, Colorado, Indian Territory, Kansas, Illinois, Missouri, 

 jSTew England, Pennsylvania, ISTew Jersey, Maryland, and Florida. 



Very variable in depth of color, distinctness of marking, and in the 

 shape and proportions of the head, antenna, and legs. In Maryland, it 

 is often corumou in corners of fields adjoining woods, wkere the small 

 weeds and shrubs grow luxuriantly. It may be swept from the plants 

 in such places as late as to the middle of the month of October. 



Subfamily MICTINA. 



Pachylis, St. Farg. & Serv. 

 P. gigas. 



FachyUs glgas, Bnrin., Haiidb. ii, 338, No, 3; Blaucbarcl, Hist. Nat. Ins. 121; 

 Dallas, Biit. Mus. List Hemipt. ii, 383. 



Inhabits Arizona, New Mexico, and Mexico. 



This is at once the grandest and showiest heteropterous insect yet dis- 

 covered within the limits of the United States. It seems to be by no 

 means rare in the regions where it occurs ; and if its habits are similar 

 to those of its less pretending brethren of the Eastern United States, it 

 must make havoc with the shrubs of which it sucks the juices. The 

 meaning of such a peculiar type of marking, including such a striking 

 contrast of brilliant and different colors, has not yet been revealed to us. 

 Certainly, it is not easy to see how such an arrangement of yellow lines 

 of the coriuni upon a blackish ground, and of broad orange bands upon 

 the still blacker surface of the legs, venter, and base of the third joint 

 of the antenuiie, could serve to disguise the insect so as to hide it from 

 its enemies. 



The nymph, probably in its fourth dress, is almost equally showy, but 

 is differently painted. Its ground-color is dark steel-blue, velvety ; the 

 scutellum cadmium-orange 5 the venter with large broad bands along 

 the middle ; the tergum with transverse white streaks, and a row of 

 short white lines on the middle, with a series of carmine spots each side 

 of the middle line, and with the femora and tibine banded with cadmium, 

 but with entirely blue-black antennsB. 



These statements are introduced here to suggest to those who are 

 favorably situated the importance of noting the manner of life of these 

 exceedingly interesting insects. 



MozENA, Amjot & Serv. 

 1. M. lunata. 



ArcJiimenis Junatus, Barm., Handb. ii, 322, No. 2 ; H.-Scbf., Wauz. Ins. vi, 24, fig. 580. 

 Mozeua Innata, Stal, Enumeratio Hemipt. i, 134. 



Inhabits Mexico, Texas, and New Mexico. 



