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base of the prouotum; tbeaiiieiiaiferous rid^e stoat andruuiiiiig directly 

 down from the eye; basal joLot very short, hardly reacUiug beyoud the 

 tip of the tylus, second longest, ai)ical one thickest, fusiform, not quite 

 as long' as the second. Pronotum long, trapezoidal, gradually narrow- 

 ing anteriorly, the transverse diameter couv^ex, the longitudinal one 

 feebly convex, the surface much more elevated than the plane of the 

 corium and scutellum; collum contracted, flattened, on the under side, 

 divided on the prosternuui ; plagce placed far back on a convex ridge, 

 which is continued to the lateral margin; behind this the surface is 

 transversely grooved, causing the lateral margins to be sinuated ; behind 

 tliis to the posterior margin is a still more elevated, wider, transverse 

 ridge; the lateral margins bluntly rounded, not recurved, deep; posterior 

 margin truncated. Corium broad, blunt, sinuated on the posterior 

 margin, scarcely longer than the membrane, punctate in longitudinal 

 rows; membrane with about five long straight nervures, of which the 

 next to the outer one is forked, and at the ends of the nervures are 

 several small closed cells [these are sometimes absent]. Anterior femora 

 very stout and short; the under surface rough, with a curved channel 

 on the outer side, and a row of uneven teeth on the inner. 



H. abhreviatus. New sj). 



Thick, deep, long-ovate, grayish pale brown. Head coarsely, remotely 

 punctured, the punctures deeply sunken and with raised margins; sur- 

 face very uneven, depressed near ttfe eyes, rufous or piceous; bucculae 

 and antennae ochre-yellow; tylus blackish, with rows of coarse, uneven 

 punctures; antennae anuulated with black, once on the basal joint, 

 twice on the second, and all but the base and tip of the third blackish, 

 the fourth rufo-piceous or fuscous. Rostrum reaching between the 

 anterior and middle coxae, brownish-yellow, piceous along the middle 

 of the joints and at tip. Prouotum tawny or rust-brown, obsoletely 

 cannated ; the callosities, two short streaks adjoining the humeral 

 angles, and sometimes a trace or two on the middle of the sides and on 

 the anterior margin piceous ; surface deeply, unevenly, coarsely punc- 

 tured; humeral angles distinctly tumid, the anterior angles rectangular; 

 lateral margins bluntly rounded ; pectus and under side of head pow- 

 dered with white, coarsely, rather remotely punctured ; the mesosternum 

 each side and one or more spots on the metapleura piceous. Femora 

 black, excepting at base and tip, and a ring at base and another near 

 the tip of tibiie black ; the tarsi faintly tinged with piceous. Scutel- 

 lum tawny, tinged with rufous, infuscated and carinated on the middle 

 line, coarsely, closely punctured. Hemelytra ochre-yellow, a little infus- 

 cated at base, the posterior, raised boundary-edge of the corium with an- 

 gulated black line extending inward as far as the clavus; both corium 

 and clavus coarsely punctured in longitudinal rows ; membrane whitish. 

 Tergum piceous-blackish or chestnut-brown, coarsely, a little remotely, 

 punctured ; connexivum with alternate quadrangular S[)Ots of whitish 

 and black. Venter chestnut-brown or piceous, more or less tinged with 

 rufous, erodedly, deeply, remotely punctured, the base more or less 

 infuscated, pruinose. $ 9 . 



Length, 3 to 5^ millimeters. Width of pronotum, IJ to 2 millimeters. 



Inhabits Nebraska, Missouri, Illinois, Michigan, Massachusetts, New 

 York, Grimsby, Canada (Mr. Petit), New Jersey, Maryland, and North 

 Carolina. 



It occurs in Maryland very abundantly in places where the plants and 

 weeds grow rank, and also on small bushes forming the undergrowth in 

 open woods. 



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