Uhler.] 402 [April 17, 



clothed with pubescence and long, oblique setae, first joint red at 

 base, the two apical joints yellow, very slender. Posterior attach- 

 ment to the eyes red. Pronotum rather finely, deeply, confidently 

 punctured, clothed with erect, yellowish pubescence, the callosities 

 prominent, and together with the colluni and anterior corners polished 

 and impunctured. Scutellum polished, rather rugulose than punc- 

 tured, the middle of the base impressed. Hemelytra closely, con- 

 fluently punctured, the punctures becoming exteriorly more minute; 

 the posterior portion of the clavus, and a continuation of the same . 

 color to the base of the membrane, black ; membrane dusky, or black- 

 ish, veins of the basal areole red. Wings more or less infuscated to- 

 wards the tip, the veins blackish, costal vein red. Tibias more or less- 

 infuscated ; tarsi yellow, blackish at tip. 



" Capsus sanguinarius Say, MSS. So determined by himself. 

 New Hampshire, Mr. Leonard." 



Length to tip of membrane, 8 millims. Humeral breadth, 2 mil- 

 lims. 



No. 97, cf , Dr. Harris' Collection. 



A specimen from Canada in my collection has the inward half of 

 the hemelytra black, from behind the base of the clavus along its 

 whole breadth to the base of the membrane. The membrane is some- 

 times black, and the wings nearly so. I am indebted to the generos- 

 ity of Mr. Scudder for a specimen from North Carolina. 



Phytocoris Fallen. 

 1. P. inops, n. sp. 



Pale ash-gray, with a tinge of green; form more slender than in 

 P. nubilis Say ; legs and antennas very slender. Head long, pale yel- 

 low, tinged with brown, sparingly clothed with long white hairs hav- 

 ing a few black ones intermixed ; spots at base, apical one-third of 

 tylus, mottlings of cranium and oblique streaks each side, transverse 

 stripe below the antennas, a broader one below this running the 

 whole length of the head and interrupted only by the eye, and buc- 

 culas, dark brown ; underside of head yellowish white ; eyes large, 

 oblique, subreniform, emarginate below ; rostrum reaching the middle 

 of the venter, yellow, infuscated at tip, first joint longer than the 

 head, second and fourth subequal in length, third nearly equal to the 

 first; antennas yellowish white t a little longer than the entire insect, 

 basal joint much stouter than the others, equal in length to the thorax 

 and head as far as the fore -line of the eyes, clothed with remote 



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