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rioily, and with the sides curving inward to concur with the margin of 

 the epistoma, the lateral margins dotted with fuscous; on the disk are 

 a few fuscous flecks ; the central carina feeble, almost obsolete beneath ; 

 sides of the face smootb, yellow; epistoma shorter than the front, prom- 

 inently convex and ridged, the middle line thick, pale yellow, each side 

 of it obliquely striated with brown ; antennae fuscous; rostrum reaching 

 to the posterior coxre, ochreous, piceous at tip; pronotum longer than 

 the cranium, ochreous, dotted with brown, on the middle with two in- 

 dented ijoiuts, the anterior margin broadly arcuated to iit the cranium, 

 the posterior margin truncated; mesonotum pale yellow, with a blunt 

 thick carina on the middle, the surface depressed each side, and the 

 apex a little tumid ; pleural pieces pale yellow, the anterior ones mar- 

 gined and spotted above with fuscous or pale brown ; legs piceous at 

 base of femora, and some patches, particularly on the forward surface, 

 and the outer face of tibiae pale testaceous ; tips of the spines and the 

 nails piceous-black ; hemelytra short and broad, clear wine-brown, i)ale 

 orange on the costal areole, the nervules of tliis part obsolete, apex 

 bluntly rounded, base narrower than the width beyond the middle, the 

 surface coarsely and irregularly scabrous, longitudinal nervures parallel, 

 distinct, a few areoles present near the apex, and these irregular, retic- 

 ulated, and indistinct; abdomen greenish-yellow, more or less saturated 

 with rosy-orange ; the genital segments fuscous, with the hooks rufo- 

 piceous. 



Length to tip of heuielytra, 5 millimeters. Width of pronotum, 1$ mil- 

 limeters. 



Inhabits Texas; collected by G. W. Belfrage. 



2. I. acicidatus. Xew. sp. 



Short, robust, grayish testaceous, minutely punctate with fuscous; 

 upper side of head about as lo.ng as the pronotum, transverse, quadrang- 

 ular, ochreous, concave, each side with an arcuated fuscous line, and 

 some fuscous points and specks, the anterior margin a little elevated, 

 scooped out in the center, the i)osterior margin prominently carinate, 

 broadly sinuate; front a little longer than broad, pale ochreous, irregu- 

 larly punctate, a. transverse band above, a geminate spot below, and 

 numerous dots, more or less aggregated near the outer margins, fuscous, 

 the lateral margins carinate, arcuated ; central carina percurrent to the 

 base of rostrum, pale, the carinse each side not much elevated, the 

 inferior margin triangular ; epistoma shorter than the front, moderately 

 convex, obliquely striated with fuscous, and infuscated inferiorly ; 

 antennae iufuscated; rostrum reaching behind the posterior coxse ; pro- 

 notum ochreous, regularly and remotely dotted with fuscous, the ante- 

 rior margin broadly arcuated, and the posterior margin straight ; pro- 

 pleura fuscous, but with the base and margins ochreous, remotely dotted 

 with fuscous, and with some fuscous traces on the middle, the middle 

 line sulcated ; meso- and meta-pleura ochreous and white; legs pale 

 ochreous, three bands on the femora, the exterior surface of the tibite 

 somewhat, the spines and tarsal joints infuscated ; the femoral grooves 

 and tibial carinte well defined; hemelytra short, broad, dotted with 

 fuscous, narrower at base, the apex obliquely rounded; nervures stout, 

 wide apart, pale, margined with fuscous; the areoles from behind the 

 middle to the tip large, trapezoidal, or irregularly quadrangular, form- 

 ing about five series; the inner and outer submargins and the disk a 

 little washed with fuscous and pale testaceous; the genital pieces fuscous 

 beneath. 



