1871.] 95 [Uhler. 



a corresponding series of spots which are sometimes reduced to mere 

 dots. Yenter punctured with rufous and black, the latter arranged 

 each side in a longitudinal series of patches; interior to these is a row 

 of black spots, and upon the middle line four round spots, with the 

 largest one at the posterior end. 



Length to tip of abdomen, 9| millims. Humeral width, 5 

 millims. 



No. 40. Harris Collection. $ . " Cambridge, Mass., April 20th, 

 1827." 



The specimens vary very much in depth of color and in the size 

 and distinctness of the markings. 



In my own collection are specimens from Maine and Minnesota. 

 A female from Massachusetts is twelve millims. in length. 



Fam. HALYDIDA. 



Brochymena Am. et Serv. 



B. Harrisii, n. sp. 



Similar to B. annulata Fab., but broader and shorter. Head elon- 

 gate-subquadrate, much shorter than in B. annulata, the lateral mar- 

 gins straight, parallel ; the tylus a little shorter than the lateral lobes, 

 the anterior prolongations of these lobes not much longer than the 

 lateral projections, the exterior corner of the latter almost toothed. 

 Pronotum short and broad, the anterior lobe having the lateral teeth, 

 direct and sub-equal in size; humeral angles obliquely rounded, 

 elevated, having a few short, oblique, ill-defined teeth, the 

 surface behind the humeri obliquely impressed. Connexivum 

 with a transverse, black, subdepressed spot before and behind each 

 incisure. Membrane, hardly reaching beyond the abdomen, 

 charged with fuscous ramifications as in B. annulata. Yenter very 

 convex, the longitudinal groove continued distinctly to the penulti- 

 mate segment. Femora mottled with brown, having a yellow, mac- 

 ular ring before the tip ; tibiae brownish, with a yellow ring upon 

 the middle. 



Length, 16^—18 millims. Humeral width, 9| millims. 



Hab. South Carolina. In Dr. Harris's Collection, without a num- 

 ber. A female in my own collection was taken in Lancaster Co., 

 Pennsylvania, from a tree, in the month of May. 



