1878.]' 389 [Uhler. 



No. 122, Harris' Collection. " Milton, Aug. 15, 1831." 



Determined as Pamera constricta by Mr. Say. 



This species is moderately common in Eastern Massachusetts, and 

 extends as far south as Mexico and Central America. It seems to be 

 abundant in Cuba, and occasional in the other large islands of £ke 

 Antilles. 



In colors and proportions, as well as in amount of pilosity, it is 

 quite variable, and but for the links between the extremes, might 

 readily be arranged in about three species. The males are some- 

 times very slender, causing them to appear abnormally long-legged; 

 while the females are occasionally very obese, dark and dull, espe- 

 cially when distended' with eggs. They live in the rubbish of fields 

 and gardens, especially among tangled grasses and plants, in late 

 summer. 



Ozophora Uhler. 



Elongate-oval, sides subparallel. Head small, sinuated before the 

 eyes, the diameter through the eyes greater than the anterior width 

 of the pronotum ; tylus convex, bluntly curved ; cranium bald at 

 base, and on each side of the vertex, the remainder and the face pu- 

 bescent ; surface behind the eyes tumid; the eyes situated on the 

 sides a little below the plane of the vertex, deeply seated, and not 

 close to the pronotum. Antennae long, slender, minutely pubescent; 

 basal joint more than half as long as the head, stouter than the api- 

 cal one ; second almost as long as the b'asal and third conjoined ; 

 fourth a little curved, as stout as the thickened tip of the third. Ros- 

 trum reaching behind the posterior coxse, the basal joint as long 

 as the head. Thorax trapezoidal, sinuated on the sides, the lat- 

 eral margins narrowly reflexed from the humeri to near the collum, 

 the reflexed line thick and undulated ; anterior lobe of the pronotum 

 moderately convex, a little more than half as long as the posterior 

 lobe, the anterior margin with a narrow, raised collum ; posterior lobe 

 wider than the length of the two lobes conjoined, the posterior mar- 

 gin concave, and the lateral margins sinuated; the humeri much ele- 

 vated, smooth, tubercle-like; pleura with a crescentic, smooth, ele- 

 vated longitudinal lobe, placed just below the lateral carina of the 

 pronotum. Legs long, the anterior femora thick, abruptly narrowed 

 at base, with a few very slender remote spines between the middle 

 and the tip, posterior femora very long and slender. Scutellum short, 

 acute. Membrane with five curved nervures, the two inner ones par- 



