Uhler.] 416 [April 17, 



as far as the tip; only the base of the lateral margin elevated, the 

 middle carina high, not so high as the pronotal vesicle, gradually de- 

 clining to the tip, the base arched, bearing two large areoles sur- 

 mounted by a series of smaller ones, the upper edge spinous. Raised 

 margin of the sternum whitish, the metasternum circular, auriculate 

 each side. Legs pale honey-yellow, embrowned at tip and on the 

 tarsi. Hemelytra rather quadrangular, with the basal angles, very 

 acute, very widely removed from the pronotal lateral lobes, the basal 

 margin distinctly concave ; lateral margins spinous until a little be- 

 yond the middle, the tips widened, bluntly, broadly rounded ; areoles 

 large, next to the apical series is a transverse row of three or four 

 very large ones, usually connected with another large one in front 

 exteriorly; vesicular elevations small, with a high carina, spinous, 

 bearing posteriorly a brown spot; a brown spot exteriorly near the 

 basal angle, another submarginal near the middle, and a broad brown 

 band at tip which omits the subapical series of large areoles. 



Length, 3 millims. Breadth at base of hemelytra, l\ millims. 



This species is most nearly related to T. gossypii Auctor., of the 

 West Indies. In some specimens the surface of the processus is 

 almost completely embrowned. 



The two specimens of this species in the Harrisian collection pre- 

 sent marked differences in color ; the one, a male, being almost des- 

 titute of brown markings, having only pale indications where the 

 spots should be. " North Carolina, Prof. Hentz." Dr. Harris at- 

 tached No. 61 to the pins of these specimens, no doubt mistaking 

 them for varieties of the preceding species. 



ANTHOCORID^. 



Lyctocoris Hahn. 

 L. domesticus. 



Cimex domesticus Schill., Isis, 1834, p. 738. Anthocoris bicuspis 

 H.-Schf, Nomencl. Entom., 50. Lyctocoris domesticus Uhler, Proc. 

 Bost. Soc. N. H., 1871, p. 106. 



No. 143, Harris' Collection. " Alabama, February, and North 

 Carolina, Prof. Hentz." 



'After a severe, critical comparison of specimens from different 

 parts of North America with a series from Europe, I can find no per- 

 manent or important differences between them. There is a decided 

 clearness of color in some specimens which strongly contrasts with 



