Uliler.] 382 [April 17, 



subacuminate, having a slightly backward curvature ; surface finely 

 remotely punctured, and with scattered small tubercles, some of 

 which are excavated, lateral margins deeply sinuated, the subcarin- 

 ated edge bearing a few short, oblique, rather remote teeth, margins 

 behind the humeri granulated: scutellum transversely wrinkled, the 

 extreme tip yellow; hemelytra minutely, closely punctured, the punc- 

 tures becoming a little coarser upon the clavus, the costal area, near 

 the base, bearing a few minute granules; anterior pleura shining, 

 granulated and punctured; odoriferous glands fulvous; legs blackish- 

 piceous, the tarsi and ends of the tibiae fulvous, nails piceous; poste- 

 rior femora almost straight, the teeth graduating in size towards the 

 tip, the five in a row nearest the tip large and curved; posterior tibise 

 dilated exteriorly for two-thirds their length from near the base, sin- 

 uated upon the middle, the base of the sinus almost acutely angu- 

 lated, the opposite end tapering, and beyond this a few very small, 

 remote teeth, inner dilation very feeble, extending to about the mid- 

 dle, beyond this to the tip minutely tuberculato-denticulate, upper 

 and lower surface of the dilatation granulated. Length, 19 mil- 

 lims. Humeral breadth, 7 millims. 



No. 50, Harris' Collection, cf. "Anisoscelis prominulus Say, MSS. 

 So named by Mr. Say. Pennsylvania, Dr. Pickering; North Caro- 

 lina, Prof. Hentz." 



The typical specimen is the one from North Carolina. The other 

 is probably destroyed, as it is not now in Dr. Harris' collection. 

 3. M. confraterxms. 



M. confraternus Uhler, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., 1871, p. 90. 



Dark-brown, blackish-fuscous beneath; clothed, even upon the 

 legs, with yellowish, almost prostrate hairs. Form and general ap- 

 pearance of the preceding species, but very distinct by the long and 

 very robust posterior femora. Antennas very long, slender, fuscous, 

 the apical joint fulvous, longer than the basal one. Thorax very mi- 

 nutely punctured, remotely tuberculated, some of the tubercles ex- 

 cavated, humeral angles a little upturned, bluntly subacuminate; 

 lateral margin subcarinate, with small, rather remote tubercular 

 teeth, the sides subsinuated, anterior pleura polished, granulated, 

 anteriorly with a few coarse punctures; odoriferous glands yellow; 

 scutellum a little elevated on the disk, each side with a shallow im- 

 pression, surface obsoletely transversely wrinkled, the extreme tip 

 yellow ; hemelytra densely, finely punctured, minutely granulated at 

 base and on the costal area; legs blackish-piceous, anterior and inter- 



