Uhler.] 394 [April 17,. 



two-thirds as long, also enlarged at tip, fourth thick, scarcely shorter 

 than the third, conical at base and tip ; buccal gutter extending to 

 the base of the gula. Pronotum short-sub-campanuliform, moderately 

 declining forwards, surface almost flat, sides sinuated, carinately ele- 

 vated, posterior margin arcuated to receive the head, posterior mar- 

 gin subtruncated, emarginated each side adjoining the humeri, hume- 

 ral angles prominently raised ; pro- meso- and metasternum deeply 

 grooved, the groove also defined on the basal, second and third ven- 

 tral segments. Scutellum short, broad, transversely elevated at base, 

 from this a medial, raised, blunt carina runs backward to the tip; 

 clavus very little broader on a line with the tip of the scutellum than 

 at base ; corium truncated on its interior end, as far as to the median 

 nervure, exterior to this it is triangularly prolonged, becoming con- 

 nate with the cuneus, which is moderately bent on its interior mar- 

 gin; membrane with two closed areoles at base interiorly, from each 

 of these a nervule runs back to the tip, and besides these, nearer the 

 exterior margin, radiate three nervules, the two inner ones running 

 to the tip, the outer one curving to the exterior margin. Abdomen 

 flattened above, the connexivum thin, blade-like, much elevated, ven- 

 tral segments of the female much flattened, strongly overlapping and 

 carried very obliquely backward, in curved wedges, to the second 

 segment. 

 B. xmmenius. 



Lygaus numenius Say, Hemipt. New Harm., 15, No. 9. Belono- 

 chilus numerius Uhler, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., 1871, p. 104. 



No. 81, Harris' Collection, $. "Sept. 1, 1829. Pennsylvania, Dr. 

 Pickering." 



This is an extremely rare species in Maryland; but I have exam- 

 ined several specimens from Ohio and Illinois. It was determined 

 for Dr. Harris by Mr. Say. 



Ischnorhynchus Fieber. 

 I. resedse Stal. » 



Lygceus reseda Panzer, Faun. Germ., 40, 20. Lygaus didymus 

 Zett., Acta Holm., 71 (1819). Lygaus geminatus Say, Hemipt. 

 New Harm., 14, 7. 



No. 41, Harris' Collection. "April 20, 1822; May 20, 1831, and 

 New Hampshire, Mr. Leonard. Wier's, Aug. 16, 1851." 



Determined as Lygaus geminatus by Mr. Say. 



This species is quite common both in the Eastern and Western 



