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ANNUAL REPORT OF NEYV-YORK 
say’s HETEROPTEROUS HEMIPTERA. 
ding one fuscous : thorax constricted in the middle; anterior 
portion impunctured : hemelytra piceous; lateral narrow margin 
yellowish, expanding behind into a small dot; membrane fuligi¬ 
nous with the nervures whitish; rostrum yellowish, first joint 
piceous : feet yellowish; anterior thighs dilated, with a few 
spines beneath beyond the middle, and with a piceous annulus 
near the tip. 
Length over seven-twentieths of an inch. 
This insect is not [unjeommon in many parts of the Union. 
Astemma, Latr. 
A. mavortia, Thorax cylindrical constricted before the basal 
margin. 
Inhab. U. S. 
Body black: antenna: honej'-yellow: thorax cylindrical, nar¬ 
rowed before to the width of the head, constricted on the basal 
6ubmargin ; base hardly wider than the middle : hemelytra punc¬ 
tured, piceous, a little shorter than the abdomen : wings imper¬ 
fect: ter gum rufous; margin and tip black: feet honey-yellow; 
anterior thighs dilated, with six or seven equal, equidistant 
spines : anterior coxae with a short spine. 
Length over seven-twentieths of an inch. 
Male, Anterior tibiae arquated towards the base and with a 
spine near the middle. 
I have taken this species in Pennsylvania, Florida, Indiana 
and Missouri. I have placed it in the present genus on account 
of its cylindrical thorax; but it ought perhaps to form a dis¬ 
tinct subgenus. 
« Capsus, F. 
1. C. ocreatus, Sanguineous; band on the hemelytra and their 
membrane black. 
Inhab. Georgia. 
Body light sanguineous : thorax with two transverse 
impressed lines before the middle; lateral edge black; heme¬ 
lytra with a narrow, black band ; the lateral edge a little reflect¬ 
ed ; membraneous part purple black, with a white terminal 
margin: beneath immaculate ; thighs simple, anterior pair about 
four spined beneath at tip; tibiae blackish-piccous. 
