262 NORTH AMERICAN FAUNA. [No. 1 



LYG.'KID.K. 



Lygceosoma Feib. 

 L. solida n. sp. 



Narrow and deep, gradually narrowing from the middle of corinm to tbo front of 

 pronotum; the surface dull, minutely grayish, pubescent all over, black, with the 

 corium and humeral angles and a spot on the middle of the basal margin of prono- 

 tum dull red. Head broad, convex, appearing longer from the acutely projecting 

 tylus, each side of which the cheeks are sunken toward the antennal lobes; anten- 

 na-stout, coated witb minute gray pubescence; rostrum black, piceous, peaching to 

 behind the middle coxa?. Pronotum longer than wide, almost liat, crossed next the 

 "middle by an indistinct ridge, humeral angles tubercular. Prosternum in front and 

 margins of the pleural segments dull yellowish. Legs polished, black, hoary pubes- 

 cent. Scutellum minutely pubescent, the carinate cross acute and pale at tip. Co- 

 rium and clavus a little rough, closely pubescent, with the edge next the membrane 

 a little dusky, the costal margin curved, and the membrane dusky black; tergum 

 polished black, venter dull black, rendered a little gray by the hoary pubescence. 



Length to tip of venter, 4£ mm ; width of base of pronotum, L} mm . 



Two specimens, a male and a female, of the bracbypterous form were secured in 

 Mariposa County, Calif. 



The membrane has an obscure pale lunule on the middle, and a very narrow whit- 

 ish outer border. 



Lygwtis Fab. 

 L. melanopleurus n. sp. 



Form of bistriangularis Say, but having the pronotum a little shorter, more de- 

 pressed behind the middle, and with the lateral margins a little sinuated. Color 

 mainly dull black, rendered grayish by the close, whitish pubescence which invests 

 both the upper and lower surface. Head stout, moderately wide, convex above, 

 marked with a red dot next the middle of base, the front narrow, with the cheeks 

 compressed from the antenniferous lobes downward; the rostrum piceous, black, 

 reaching upon the posterior coxa?., antenna? black, thick, grayish, pubescent; prono- 

 tum a little wider than long, depressed, and with a few coarse, dragged punctures 

 behind the anterior margin; callosities transverse, distinct, the surface behind them 

 depressed, a little rough, and with a few coarse punctures; lateral margins moder- 

 ately oblique, feebly sinuated before the middle, with the humeri a little raised into 

 a longitudinal ridge, the posterior margin nearly straight and slenderly edged with 

 yellow; scutellum a little rough, depressed behind the middle, with the "tip carinate 

 and acute. Hemelytra paler and more lead-colored than the thorax, with the costal 

 border broadly yellowish red, the posterior border more slenderly yellow, the sur- 

 face pubescent and remotely minutely punctate; msmbraue long, black, broadly 

 bordered with white. Pectus black, hoary, pubosce it, marked each side of line of 

 legs with a row of pale spots. Legs black, pubescent. Venter reddish, black at 

 tip, and with a broad blackish stripe on the side following the line of the stigmata. 



Length to end of venter, ii to 5 mm . ; to tip of membrane, 6 mm . ; width of base of 

 pronotum, 2 mm . 



Two specimens were obtained on the Panamint Mountains in April. It inhabits 

 also Colorado. 

 Lygaeosoma sp. 



A specimen with robust figure and of the bracbypterous form was collected in 

 Mariposa County, Calif., but it is too greasy for description. 



Pamera Say. 

 P. nitidula n. sp. 



Dull blackish, with the head and thorax polished, chestnut brown, and the heme- 

 lytra pale testaceous, with a broad black band across the posterior part of the corium, 

 an irregular spot near its base, and a spot at tip of cuueus, which runs back slenderly 



