1878.] 409 [Uhler. 



ous, paler on the basal joint. Pronotum grayish testaceous, regularly- 

 convex, with deep, remote, black punctures, which are confluent near 

 the sides, a large black cloud on the disk, and several vestiges about 

 the sides and near the posterior margin ; callosities black, smooth, but 

 rather slightly elevated ; collum, lateral carinas, and posterior edge 

 yellow, the lateral margins sinuated, deflexed, carinate on the edge; 

 posterior margin broadly rounded, feebly sinuated on the middle and 

 adjoining the humeri, humeral angles a little raised, broadly rounded; 

 anterior angles almost rectangular, a little rounded ; pleurae black, 

 margined with yellowish, and together with the anterior xyphus 

 deeply, confluently- punctured ; sternum opaque black, posteriorly 

 margined with yellow, the odoriferous glands pale yellow. Femora 

 black, remotely whitish pubescent, obsoletely punctured, at tip pale 

 yellow, knees with a black spot; tibiae pale yellow, with two piceous- 

 black rings a short distance below the knees and another at tip ; tarsi 

 pale yellow, more or less piceous at base and tip, nails blackish. 

 Scutellum blackish piceous, confluently punctured, except at tip, each 

 side of the base and on the apex is an ivory-yellowish spot. Heme- 

 lytra olive-testaceous, remotely punctured with brown, costal edge, 

 base, the tip exteriorly, several large and occasionally coalescing 

 spots beyond the middle and base, interior edge and apex of the 

 clavus, interior corner and apex of the cuneus, dark brown; cuneus 

 broad, short, acute, sharply incised at base ; membrane transparent, 

 the nervures of the areole, the middle of their margin, a small spot 

 beyond and a vestige at base, brown. Venter black, polished, re- 

 motely, minutely yellowish pubescent, finely, remotely, obsoletely 

 punctured ; genital pieces of the female piceous. Length, 3^-4 mil- 

 lims. Humeral breadth, 1^ millims. 



This species is in the collection, but without a number. "May 15/ 

 Specimens in my own collection were captured in Canada, Maine, 

 Massachusetts, Illinois, etc. In eastern Massachusetts I have beaten 

 many specimens from the pine trees during all the summer months. 



Plagiognathus Fieb. 

 P. obscurus. 



Plagiognaihas obscurus Uhler, Hayden's Surv. of Montana, 418. 



Elongate-oval, dull black, or fuscous, clothed with yellowish pubes- 

 cence. Head black or piceous, the occipital ridge pale, face trans- 

 verse, moderately convex, obliquely inclining, smooth, sparingly pu- 

 bescent ; tylus rather abruptly prominent, cylindrico-convex, black, 



