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on the outer margin. Head long, subacute at tip, set with erect bristly hairs, trans- 

 versely wrinkled; rostrum yellowish, slender, reaching behind the middle coxy; an- 

 tennae pale yellow, slender, a little brown at points of articulation, the second joint 

 as long as from the front of the eye to the pronot.il stricture, the apical joint scarcely 

 darker than the others, equally as long as the second, first and third much shorter, 

 subequal in length. Pronotum highly polished, a little darker across the base, the 

 anterior lobe globosely convex, much narrower than the basal lobe, having a con- 

 striction and collum in front, the latter being punctate and a little produced behind, 

 bounded by a deeply incised line, the surface spread with some bristly hairs ; posterior 

 lobe depressed, about as wide as the length of the anterior lobe, coarsely remotely 

 punctate, with the humeral angles callous and elevated. Legs pale yellow, the an- 

 terior femora very stout, pale chestnut brown, with the knees and teeth darker, the 

 anterior tibiae strongly bent, pectoral and pleural areas polished roughly and coarsely 

 punctate and clothed with stiff pale hairs. Scutellum piceous, remotely punctate, 

 sparingly pubescent, ridged from the middle to the tip, and with the tip pale and 

 acute. Corium pale yellowish testaceous, darker at base, whitish at tip and on the 

 cuneus, remotely punctate with brown in longitudinal lines, the embolium a little 

 dusky and punctate in the crease, membrane dusky excepting the outer border, with 

 pale veins. Venter pale reddish chestnut, dusky at base, the female with a sickle- 

 shaped callosity running backward from the base. 



Length to tip of venter 6 mm , to end of membrane 6& mm , width of base of pronotum 



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A single specimen ( 9 ) was obtained in the Argus Mountains, Calif., April. I have 

 also examined two others from Texas and New Mexico. Only females have thus far 

 been sent to me for examination. 



Cropliius Stal. 



C. disconotus Say. Heteropt. New Harm., p. 14, No. 6. 



One specimen was collected on the Argus Mountains in May. This is Ly gains 

 diconotus Say, the specific name of which is a misprint for disconotus, and would have " 

 been more correctly disconotatus. 



TINGITID^E. 



Gargaphia Stal. 

 G-. opacula n. sp. 



Oblong, ovate, with the head, breast, abdomen, basal and last joint of antennae and 

 base of second joint black. Head produced in front, pale beneath, the rostrum ex- 

 tending to the middle coxae, having the bucculae white and continuous, with the 

 white raised border which bounds the whole length of the mesosternum on its 

 sides. Pronotum tri-carinate, convex, woolly over most of the surface and sides. The 

 short anteriorly blunt and twice-tufted bulla stands next behind the head, the sur- 

 face yellowish white, with a narrow reflexed border along the curved lateral mar- 

 gin, the scutellum narrow and less depressed than usual; also whitish, pubescent. 

 Legs pale rufo-testaceous, slender. Wing-covers white, with the veins a little 

 tinged with fuscous near the tip, the exterior margin bluntly curved, regularly 

 curved at tip, the areoles small, unusually regular in size, a double series of them oc- 

 cupying the costal area, but tapering off to a single series at tip, the clavus opaque, 

 coriaceous, coarsely punctate, minutely pubescent in common with the disk of 

 corium. Beneath dull black, minutely pubescent. 



Length to end of abdomen, 2£ mui . ; to tip of hemelytra, 3 m,D . ; width of prono- 

 tum, 1 mm . 



Only a single specimen of this peculiar species was secured. It was taken on the 

 Argus Mountains in April. The prominent convexity of the pronotum with its fur- 

 like covering of hair and narrow pronotum will serve to quickly distinguish this 

 species from the others thus far described. 



