Uhler.] 100 [February 1, 



tip orange. Hem elytra densely, finely punctured, minutely granu- 

 lated at base and on the costal area. Legs blackish piceous, the 

 anterior and intermediate from near the base, the tips of the poste- 

 rior tibiae and all the tarsi, fulvous ; posterior femora robust, clavate, 

 longer than in femoratus Fab., the row of five teeth nearest the tip 

 large and stout; the tibia? moderately dilated exteriorly almost to 

 the tip, tapering, the sinuosity shallow, the angle at its base not very 

 prominent, interior dilatation very narrow, sublinear, from its mid- 

 dle to the apex of the tibia minutely denticulated ; three or four 

 minute teeth on the opposite side of the tibia?. 



Length, 23 millims. Humeral breadth, 8 millims. tf. 



"Florida. Mr. Doubleday." 



In Dr. Harris's Collection without a number. 



bur 



Fam. COREIDA. 

 Neides Latus. 



N. deeurvatus, n. sp. 



Form and general appearance of Neides spinosus Say. Luteus, or 

 pale cinnamon yellow. Head with a slender, decurved tooth pro- 

 jecting forward and downward from the vertex. Thorax a little 

 longer, less coarsely punctured, the callosities at the anterior end 

 of the median carina small and indistinct ; sternum dull black, no 

 spines against the posterior coxa?. Tip of the corium of hemelytra 

 without the dusky spot. Venter densely punctured. 



Length 7-9 millims. Humeral breadth |— 1 millim. 



No. 72. Harris Collection. $ ? . "Dublin, N. H., Mr. Leonard." 



Fam. LYCEIDiE. 



Ptochiomera Say. 



P. nodosa. 



Ptochiomera nodosus Say. Heteropt. p. 18, no. 9. 



Aphanus clavatus Dallas. Brit. Mus. Cat. Hemipt. p. 560. no. 5. 



No. 144. Harris Collection. " Alabama, February ; Prof. 

 Hentz." 



This genus must not be confounded with Plociomerus Amyot and 

 Serv., as has been done by several European hemipterists. The 

 clavate, irregular antennae and shape of the thoracic pieces are quite 

 different from those of the types of that genus. 



