192 prof. p. e. uhler on the [Mar. 6, 



This is a common species with an extensive distribution. It 

 inhabits Colombia, Central America, Mexico, California, Washington 

 State, Oregon, Colorado and Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, Minne- 

 sota, Lower Canada, and all the Atlantic States from Maine to 

 Florida, and the Gulf States west into Texas, as also San 

 Domingo and Cuba. Degrees of maturity affect its colours and 

 pattern of marking. 



Poeciloscytus, Fieber. 



PffiCiLOSCYTUS (Ltgus) cuneatus (Dist.). 



Lygus cuneatus,~Dist. Biol. Centr.-Am., Hem.-Het. p. 435, pi. 37. 

 fig. 24. 



This is a common species in the Antilles and on the borders of 

 the adjoining continent. It is found in Central America, Mexico, 

 Texas, and Florida, and apparently as far north as Virginia. 

 Specimens from the last-named State have passed through my 

 hands, but, as their antennae were mutilated, a slight element of 

 uncertainty exists in the identification. 



Many specimens were collected on the Mirabeau estate, April 7, 

 as they came to the light at night. At Balthazar and on the 

 Mount Gay estate they were swept from herbage in August. 



Fulvius, Stal. 



1. FULVIUS ATRATUS, Dist. 



Fulvius atratus, Dist. t. c. p. 282, pi. 27. fig. 18. 



Several specimens of this species were taken at Balthazar, 

 March 7, and also early in August, in bushy places on herbage 

 and at the light. Others were captured at Chantilly, and on the 

 Grand Etang they were met with at an altitude of 1900 feet upon 

 decaying weeds. In the United States this species frequents 

 fungi in damp, shady borders of woods, and it flies freely in the 

 sunshine. 



2. Fulvius lunulatus, sp. nov. 



Black, polished, oblong-ovate, with the head shorter than 

 normal, wider than the apex of pronotum, and swollen between 

 the eyes, vertex with a faint impressed line ; antennas dark brown, 

 the second joint paler, very long, and white on the apical one- 

 third, the third and fourth a little more slender than the second, 

 but not setaceous ; rostrum piceous, reaching behind the posterior 

 coxae. Pronotum wider than long, tumidly convex on the middle, 

 broadly indented, and grooved in the centre behind the collum, 

 the posterior submargin bounded by an incised line ; humeral 

 angles acutely prominent, the lateral margin deeply sinuated. 

 Scutellum piceous black, highly polished, convex. Legs pale 

 fuscous, the anterior femora darker. Hemelytra black, or 

 brownish black, marked with a minute pale fleck at the base of 



