Uhler.] dyb [April 17, 



turned, the vertex densely pubescent, minutely confidently punc- 

 tured, at base bald, irapunctured and with a central impressed line. 

 Antennae robust, rufous, the basal joint a little longer than the 

 head, sometimes greenish, armed with long stiff hairs. Eyes round, 

 prominent, posteriorly in contact with the pronotum. Rostrum 

 reaching to behind the middle coxae. Pronotum convex behind, 

 finely, deeply and in part confluently punctured, the lateral margins 

 broadly sinuated, and the carinate edge sharply prominent ; the ante- 

 rior angle callous exteriorly, and destitute of the carinate edge. Hu- 

 meral angles slightly recurved behind, the median line distinct, pale. 

 Propleura coarsely and confluently punctured, having each side a 

 slender brown or red line which is continued interruptedly along the 

 venter; meso- and metapleura punctured on the middle. Hemelytra 

 almost white on the costal margin and on the inner edge; the surface 

 pubescent, minutely closely punctured ; the cuneus usually pale 

 green, and the membrane hyaline, or tinged with brown, with rufous 

 or pale brown nervures, sometimes having a fuscous streak protracted 

 beyond the nervure. Wings hyaline or faintly infuscated, iridescent, 

 with the nervures brown. Scutellum more finely punctured than the 

 pronotum, often having those of the middle and base fuscous, the 

 middle line pale and smooth. Tergum green or pale rufous, with the 

 disk more or less infuscated. Venter green or pale rufo-testaceous, 

 invested with rather close set yellow sericeous pubescence. Legs 

 pale green, pubescent, usually having the tarsi and apex of the tibiae 

 rufous; posterior femora commonly with two series of piceous or ru- 

 fous dots above and two similar series below ; the nails and part of 

 joint next to them piceous. Length, 6-71 millims. Breadth of pro- 

 notum, If— 2 millims. 



No. 70, [u] Harris' Collection, 1 cf. "New Hampshire, Mr. Leon- 

 ard. Milton, July 20, 1828." 



Dr. Harris refers this to Miris bivittatus Say, but as no published 

 description of it has previously appeared, the above will serve to 

 characterize it for the present. It seems strange that among the 

 thousands of specimens of Miris which have been collected in regions 

 whence Prof. Say obtained his, that not one has yet been reported 

 which agrees with his short diagnosis of Miris dorsalis. Our species 

 abounds in New England, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, 

 Delaware, Maryland, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North 



1 The letter " u " in the Harris catalogue means that the specimen is unique. 



