1878.] 411 [Uhler. 



golden-rod and ox-eye daisy in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and 

 Maryland, during the greater part of summer. 



Rhopalotomus Fieb. 

 R. ater. 



Cimexater Linn., Sy st. Nat., n, 725,72; Fab., Ent. Syst., IV 

 178, No. 156. Lygceus flavicollis Wolff, Icon. Cim., tab. 4, fig. 32. 



" Capsus testudineus Say, Mass." Named by himself. The variety 

 with yellow thorax. 



Nos. 43 and 59, Harris' Collection. " On grass, June 17, 1827. 

 June 30, 1826." No. 59, "Capsus lugubris Say, MSS., also determ- 

 ined by Mr. Say. On grass, June, Maine, Randall." Another spec- 

 imen with locality unmarked. 



This is the black variety with yellow cranium. The species varies 

 rather considerably in the thickness of the second joint of the an- 

 tennas. It is found from the extreme north of British America to 

 the southern parts of the United States. In Europe it is also widely 

 distributed. 



Halticocoris Dougl. & Scott. 



H. pallicornis. 



Salda pallicornis Fab., Syst. Rhyng., 115, 6. Halticocoris palli- 

 cornis Dougl. & Scott, Brit. Hem., 479, 1. 



"Capsus alliens Say, MSS.," determined by himself. 



No. 99, Harris' Collection, ?. " New Hampshire, Mr. Leonard." 



I can find no satisfactory characters to separate this from the Eu- 

 ropean species to which it is here referred. By a direct comparison 

 with foreign specimens it seems to be the same, although some speci- 

 mens show a tendency to be yellow against the inner side of the eyes, 

 and to have the front pair of legs entirely yellow. When fresh, the 

 hemelytra are sprinkled with minute dots of prostrate silvery hairs. 

 Dr. Fieber says the " body is coarsely punctured above." In all the 

 specimens which I have examined from both sides of the Atlantic, 

 the upper surface, particularly of the pronotum, is rather rastrated 

 and shagreened than punctured. The anterior part, and occasionally 

 the posterior part, of the pronotum is' transversely wrinkled. In my 

 collection are specimens from Illinois, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, 

 and Maryland. The s'pecies sometimes abounds near Baltimore 

 around the edges of fields, in the month of July. 



Dr. Harris' two specimens are females, of a dull black color, faintly 



