Uhler.] 390 [April 17, 



allel to each other, the extreme outer one very short and almost 

 straight. 



Similar in form to the preceding genus, but differing at first sight 

 by the carinate reflexed. margin of pronotum, etc. 

 O. picturata. 



Ozophora picturata Uhler, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., 1871, p. 102. 



Pale rufo-piceous, or dull rufo-testaceous, elongate-oval, colors be- 

 neath and upon the anterior lobe of pronotum opaque; hemelytra and 

 base of pronotum glossy. Antennae, rostrum, legs, hemelytra, poste- 

 rior lobe of pronotum, and scutellum, testaceous. Apex of the sec- 

 ond and third joints, and apical two-thirds of the last joint of the 

 antennas, blackish, the basal third of the latter white. Head finely 

 punctured beneath, and more densely so upon the middle line, front, 

 and near the eyes; tips of the lateral lobes, and of the tylus, honey- 

 yellow, tip of rostrum piceous. Anterior lobe of pronotum impunc- 

 tured, more or less dark brown, the raised collar yellow, with a few 

 brown spots; lateral elevated margins more or less' yellow, or pale 

 piceous; posterior lobe coarsely, irregularly, remotely punctured with 

 brown, and with brown longitudinal stripes (usually five), of which 

 the middle one is divided longitudinally by a smooth yellow line; hu- 

 meri smooth, yellow, generally with a dark brown spot exteriorly. 

 Pectoral areas with fine, remote, shallow punctures ; posterior and 

 upper edges of the metasthetium yellow, coxae and the surface at 

 their base pale piceous, or yellow. Scutellum remotely punctured, 

 having a Y-shaped, smoofh, yellow line (with its apex pointing 

 towards the apex of the scutellum), the lateral edges and tip, also, 

 yellow. Hemelytra punctured with brown in oblique lines, the clavus 

 clouded with brown; corium with a small streak near the base, a 

 broad spot behind the middle, which reaches the exterior edge in a 

 small (usually detached) spot, a spot at the apical exterior corner, 

 which continues along the suture of the membrane to the inner an- 

 gle, fuscous; costal margin broadly white, impunctured ; membrane 

 fuscous, a few irregular figures near the base, the nervures, and a 

 large spot at the tip, white. Venter impunctured, clothed with fine 

 yellowish pubescence. Length a trifle more or less than 6 millims. 

 Humeral breadth, 1.5 millims. 



No. 127, Harris' Collection, ?. "Cambridge, Mass., April 9, 1835." 



Beosus Burmeisteri Guer., belongs to this genus, and is so closely 

 allied to this species that a long series of specimens may prove them 

 to be identical. I have examined only females. A careful study of 



