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GENUS CROPHIUS 



has specimens from Colorado and Utah and in the National 

 Museum is one from War Bonnet, Nebraska. Mr. Bradley's 

 specimens were beaten from small juniper trees growing among 

 the sage-brush on the plains at the mouth of City Creek Canon 

 near Milford. He has kindly sent me a photograph of this col- 

 lecting ground, reproduced below, showing one of the junipers 

 in the fore ground and others in the distance. 



This species is congeneric and very close to the insect 

 described and figured in the Biologia Centrali Americana as 

 May ana costata Distant; (Heteroptera vol. i, p. 388, pi. 34, fig. 

 13, 1893.) but Mr. Distant has very kindly compared specimens 

 with his type and pronounces them distinct. In scabrosns the 

 rostrum is longer than in our other species, the pronotum is 

 shorter and broader and the general appearance of the insect is 

 somewhat different from Cropliius, but I can find no characters 

 which I would call of generic value. It really differs less gen- 

 erically from disconotus than does angiistatus. 



Characteristic sage-brush plain at mouth of City Creek Canon, Utah, 

 showing juniper tree on which Crophius scabrosus was found. 



