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and closely punctate ; the cuneus usually pale green, and the mem- 

 brane hyaline, with rufous or pale-brown nervures, sometimes having a 

 pale-brown streak protracted beyond the uervure. Scutellum more 

 finely punctate than the pronotura, often having the punctures of the 

 middle and base fuscous ; the middle line pale and smooth. Tergum 

 green or pale rufous, with the disk more or less infuscated. Venter 

 green or testaceous, invested with close-set sericeous pubescence. Legs 

 pale green, usually having the tarsi and tip of the tibite rufous ; poste- 

 rior femora usually having two series of piceous dots above and two 

 similar series beneath ; the nails and adjacent joint piceous. 



Length, 6 to7^ millimeters. Breadth of pronotum, If to 2 millimeters. 



Collected on the hills of Colorado in July (Lieutenant Carpenter). It 

 is very common on low meadows in many parts of the Atlantic region. 



Although this insect was referred to Miris dorsalis, Say, by Dr. Har- 

 ris, it does not sufficiently agree with the description of that species to 

 enable us to accept the determination. M. dorsalis, Say, still remains 

 undetected by modern entomologists. 



Phytocoris, Fallen. 



1. P. nubilus. 



Caj)sns nuhiliis, Say, Heteropt. New Harmony, 22, No. 10. 



Inhabits Texas ; Mexico, near Matamoras, in the collection of Dr» 

 Berlandier ; Canada ; l!^ew England ; jSTew York ; Pennsylvania ; New 

 Jersey, in August ; Maryland, on Eupatorium, in July and August ; 

 Georgia, and North Carolina. 



2. P. scrupeus. 



Capsiis scrupeus, Say, Heteropt. New Harmony, 23, No. 13. 

 Capsus tetrasfigma, H.-Schf., Wanz. Ins. ix, 166, tig. 959. 

 Capsus exiernus, H.-Sclif., Wanz. Ins. viii, 16, fig. 791. 



Inhabits Texas, Indian Territory, Mexico, Nebraska, Illinois, New 

 England, Maryland, New Jersey, and Georgia. 



This is a very variable insect, both in colors and in the width and 

 thickness of the body and members. Pigmy sj)ecimens often occur in 

 Eastern Massachusetts. I have found it in July on the grape-vines north 

 of Baltimore. 



The two figures of Herrich-Schaeffer represent varieties which are 

 occasionally found in Maryland. Neither of them represents accurately 

 the shape of tlie joints of the antennae, although figure 791 is more 

 nearly correct than the other. 



LoPiDEA, Uhler. 

 L. media. 



Capsus medius, Say, Heteropt. New Harmony, 22, No. 11. 



Found on the foot-hills and plains of Colorado, September 19 and 

 October 4, by Lieutenant Carpenter. 



Hadronema, Uhler. 

 S. militaris. 



Rddronema militaris, Uhler, Hayden's Survey of Montana, 412. 



Collected July to September on the hills of Colorado. 



