278 NORTHERN ZOOLOGY. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Body oblong, pale, somewhat lurid with a very slight tint of green. Head triangular, impunc- 

 tured ; eyes a little embrowned, prominent; antenna; as long as the prothorax, subtestaceous with 

 the two last joints and the underside of the first black : thorax, scutellum, and hemelytra very minutely 

 punctured ; a small portion of the prothorax adjoining the head is separated from the rest by an 

 impressed sinuous line and is not punctured : legs pale ; abdomen subpyramidal, black above, pale 

 underneath. This appears to be the American representative of M. pabulinus. 



(388) 2. * Miris ventralis. Ventral Maris. 



M. (ventralis J pallidus ; hemehjtris nigro subnebulosis ; abdomine supra et infra nigro ; ventre vittis duabus rufescentibus. 

 Ventral Miris, pale; with the hemelytra faintly clouded with black; abdomen black above and below, with two ventral 

 abbreviated reddish longitudinal stripes. 



.Length of the body 3 lines. 



Taken with the preceding. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Very similar to M. punctulatus, and perhaps only a variety, but the hemelytra are faintly clouded 

 with black, the underside of the abdomen is dusky with two longitudinal reddish spots or stripes. 



Family ACANTHIADiE. Acanthiadans. 



CLXVIII. Genus ARADUS. Fab. 



(389) 1. * Aradus tuberculifer. Tubercle-bearing Aradus. 



A. (tuberculifer) niger, prothorace antice lobato, supra sexcarinato, scutello margine reflexo, disco tuberculum subhemisphcericum 



gerente. 

 Tubercle-bearing Aradus, black ; prothorax lobed anteriorly, above six-ridged ; margin of the scutellum reflexed, bearing a 



subhemispherical tubercle on its disk. 



PLATE VI, FIG. 5. 

 Length of the body 3f lines. 



A single specimen taken with the preceding. 



