348 . 

 Lepyronia, Amyot & Scrv 



L. anguUfera. New sp. 



A broad, short, gibbous species, rather more inflated than the dwarf 

 specimens of L. coleoptrata^ Linn. Pale fuscous or grayish-brown, 

 closely coated with small, prostrate, golden or hoary, pubescence, the 

 upper surface minutely and closely punctate. Head a little more than 

 one-half as long as tlie width between the eyes; the cranium depressed, 

 indented each side of base and on the basal prominence ; each side of 

 submargin, center of tylus, and a short transverse line near the anterior 

 angle of each eye impressed ; tylus with a short carina near the base; 

 anterior edge of head a little recurved, triangularly rounded. Face 

 and under side of body piceo-fuscous ; the front broad, a little flattened 

 on the middle line; antennae piceous, and, excepting the basal joints, 

 as fine as a hair. Pronotum short, the anterior margin straight, the 

 latero-posterior margins feebly sinnated, the lateral margins short, 

 direct, a little oblique ; surface deeply impressed on the middle line as 

 far as the center of the disk, the disk a little convex, each side of it 

 anteriorly with about three round indentations, the anterior submargin 

 with an impressed point each side behind the eyes. Scutellum obso- 

 letely grooved on the middle, the apex whitish; jnst behind it is a 

 blackish spot. Legs dark piceous, more or less rufescent, scabrous, 

 sericeous pubescent; the femora with a medial and apical yellow band, 

 the under sid^ longitudinally grooved ; spines of tibise and tarsi yellow, 

 tipped with black. Hemelytra paler posteriorly, more or less clouded 

 with fuscous, minutely punctured and shagreeued, with an oblique, 

 fuscous, macular baud at the base of the membrane; nervures dark 

 fuscous, or black, with the apical ends of a few of them forked ; costal 

 margin broadly arched, and with a pale spot before and another behind 

 tlie middle, sometimes also with a few pale dots aggregated near the 

 middle and inner margin. Abdomen dark fusco-piceous, margined 

 with pale ochreous, the genital pieces usually ochreous, with the ovi- 

 positor and outer margins piceous. 



Length to tip of hemelytra, 5 to 6 millimeters. Width of base of 

 pronotum, 1^ to 1% millimeters. 



Collected for me in Northwestern Florida in July by Miss Modeste 

 Hunter. Found by myself in a low marshy spot adjacent to spring- 

 water, a few miles south of Baltimore, August 14 ; also in Ocean County, 

 New Jersey, in tipliagmim swamps, in August. I have also examined 

 specimens from Cuba, Texas, and Northern Mexico. 



As the Mexican hemipterous fauna extends into New Mexico and 

 Arizona, we may safely premise that this species will hereafter be 

 collected in these Territories. 



Clastoptera, Germ. 

 G. delicata. New sp. 



Form of C. p);oteus, Fitch, hut vfith a more prominent front. Pale 

 greenish-yellow. Head broad, apparently impunctate; cranium short, 

 transversely depressed, as is also the tylus ; anterior edge of the vertex 

 carinately elevated, bordered from eye to eye with a black line ; eyes 

 margined behind with black ; front smooth, polished, bright yellow, 

 rounded, the transverse rugfe substituted by slender black bands; lovyer 

 down grooved, and with a broad black spot, adjoining which each side 

 on the cheeks is a smaller spot; under side bright yellow ; rostrum 

 black, reaching almost to the posterior coxse; antennte black at base. 



