Uhler.] 392 [April 17, 



coxse and surface adjacent pale rufo-piceous. Scutellum long, convex, 

 dull black, the raised edge, tip and submargins near the tip pale 

 ochreous-yellow, the surface before the tip remotely punctured, and 

 with a shallow depression upon the middle. Hemelytra pale, dull 

 ochreous-yellow, punctured obliquely, in numerous rows, with black; 

 a few dusky spots and clouds, caused by aggregations of punctures, 

 near the interior edge of the clavus and upon the disk and posterior 

 portion of the corium, the corium having the costal margin, and two 

 or more small spots on the disk, smooth, yellow. Membrane whitish, 

 with a spot not far from the interior angle and a few less distinct 

 ones upon the middle and sides, brown ; the milk-white spot of the 

 interior angle not very distinct. Venter black, shining, very mi- 

 nutely, closely punctured, covered with minute, yellowish pubescence. 

 Costal submargin at tip with a black spot. Length, 5 millims. ; hu- 

 meral breadth, 1.75 millims. d". 



No. 148, Harris' Collection. " Cambridge, Mass., April 20, 1837, 

 under a board." 



Gonianotus Fieber. 



G. marginepunetatus. 



Lygosus marginepunetatus Wolff, Ic. Ciin., 150, tab. xv, fig. 144. 

 Pachymerus marginepunetatus Halm, Wanz. Ins., i, fig. 32. Gonian- 

 otus marginepunetatus Fieber, Eur. Hemipt., 197, 1. 



No. 128, Harris' Collection. " Cambridge, Mass., May 1, 1835." 

 This species is probably an importation from Europe, as, it offers 

 no difference from specimens which I have examined from Germany. 

 Several of the varieties found in Europe are, also, to be met with in 

 this country. 



BLISSINA. 



Blissus Burm. 

 B. leucopterus. 



Lygreus leucopterus Say, Hemipt. New Harm., 14, 5. Micropus 

 leucopterus Fitch, Country Gent., V, 396; Trans. N. Y. State Agri- 

 cult. Soc, xiv, 293. Micropus leucopterus Signoret, Ann. Soc. 

 France, 3d ser., v, 31, No. 11, pi. 2, fig. 11. 



Harris' Collection, without a number. "Nov. 1, 1844. Cam- 

 bridge, June 17, 1853, garden. Illinois, Sept. 16, 1850, living." 

 "In meadows under stones and sticks; in swarms." 



All but one of the specimens from Massachusetts are of the short- 

 winged form. Those from Illinois have the hemelytra and wings 

 fully developed. 



