1878.] 413 [Uhler. 



cuneus long, conically triangular, the basal margin bowed ; mem- 

 brane long, subtriangularly rounded at tip, the basal areole large, 

 elongate-subquadrate, triangular at base, extending from the base of 

 cuneus almost to its tip. Venter subcylindrical, much narrower than 

 the hemelytra. 

 P. anthocoroides. 



Piceous-black, elongate oval. Head smooth, impunctured, eyes 

 pale piceous around the orbit, the facets very large ; sides of face in- 

 feriorly, and tip of tylus rufous ; antennae yellow, more or less infus- 

 cated, densely pubescent, the basal joint less so, that joint piceous 

 with a yellow tip ; rostrum pale yellowish, more or less infuscated at 

 tip. Pronotum dull black, sparsely pubescent, polished on the ele- 

 vated disk of the anterior lobe, neck constricted; the lateral margins 

 very oblique; the posterior margin almost twice the length of the an- 

 terior margin ; posterior lobe slightly scabrous, depressed, the hu- 

 meral angles obliquely produced, upturned, somewhat liguliform, 

 rounded at tip. Anterior area of pectus wrinkled ; coxa? yellowish 

 white, femora piceous, or rufous, tipped with yellow ; tibia? and tarsi 

 yellowish white, or slightly infuscated. Scutellum piceous or rufo- 

 piceous, a bright orange spot each side of disk, and the tip acute, 

 pale yellowish. Hemelytra yellowish white, minutely scabrous, 

 sparsely, minutely pubescent, infuscated at base, and with a large 

 fuscous cloud from the middle to the tip, (sometimes fuscous, with a 

 pale disk to clavus, and a pale spot on the disk of corium), cuneus 

 fuscous, with a round yellow spot at base ; membrane fuliginous. 

 Postpectus and venter rufous, the latter piceous in the middle; the 

 genital attachments more or less orange. Length, to tip of tegmina, 

 3-3^ millims. Humeral breadth, 1 millim. 



No. 96, Harris' Collection, 6. "July 20, 1831." 



This is a very interesting addition to the family, and supplies one 

 more link to the chain of connection between the Phytocoridae and 

 Anthocoridse. At a first glance it might readily be confounded with 

 some of the larger species of Anthocoris. 



Idolocoris Dougl. & Scott. 

 I. famelicus. 



Pale yellow, more or less rosy, polished, somewhat opaque on the 

 clavus. Face yellow, tinged with rosy, head behind the eyes rosy, 

 smooth, shining ; eyes large, prominent, brown ; cranium often hav- 



