HEMIPTERA—C0RE1DAE— SCOLOPOCERUS SEOCNDARIUS. 833 



thickness throughout, closely beset with acute granules, which form also a 

 crown on the ends of the joints ; the basal joint longer than the second, the 

 third longest, fourth very short, conical at tip, having only the base granu- 

 lose. Rostrum extending nearly to the intermediate coxae. Pronotum nar- 

 rowing anteriorly, a little longer than wide, the lateral margins bluntly ele- 

 vated. Sternum deeply grooved, almost to the base of the metasternum. 

 Scutellum scarcely longer than wide, the lateral margins feebly elevated. 

 Legs short, the posterior pair placed wide apart. Basal joint of the poste- 

 rior tarsi nearly as long as the second and apical united. Hemelytra, — 

 costal margins parallel, let into the surface of the tergum, and leaving an 

 elevated and wide connexivum each side ; nervures of the membrane very 

 numerous, irregular, and ramose. Osteoles situated behind and beyond the 

 intermediate coxae. 



SCOLOPOCERUS SECUNDARIUS, Uhler, sp. nov. 

 Plate XLII, Fig. 5. 



Form similar to Dasycoris ptticomis, Burm.; fusco-testaceous, freckled 



with black and fuscous ; both the upper and lower surface granulated with 



black and brown ; beneath paler than above. Antenna? appearing black 



by reason of the close set granules. Head testaceous, beset with remote, 



round, black granules anteriorly and near the outer angles ; ocelli red, set 



in round, black dots ; elevations behind the eyes with a few black points. 



Grular surface whitish-testaceous, with coarse, irregular granulations, some 



of which, on the cheeks, form longitudinal series continuously with the bed 



of the antennoe. Rostrum extending to behind the middle of mesosternum, 



dark piceous, paler at base and at the ends of the joints ; basal joint shorter 



than the head, second a very little longer than the apical one, third not more 



than one-half as long as the second. Pronotum dull rufo-testaceous, pitted 



with large and irregularly placed piceous punctures, and with granules in 



some of them ; lateral margins sinuated and granulated, the submargin 



linearly depressed ; middle line distinct to near the base, the intra-humeral 



submargin a little tumid. Scutellum pitted and granulated with piceous. 



Leys rather closely granulated with black on a dull testaceous ground, the 



granules forming two or three bands at base of tibia', and a broader one at 

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