STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
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SAY’S HETHROPTEROUS beviptera. 
12. C. insignis, Black; head, thorax and scutel more or less 
sanguineous. 
Inhab. U. S. 
Body black; sanguineous with a black mark at the base of the 
rostrum, sometimes extending into a triangle, of which the apex 
is at the base of the head: antenna, black; first joint not half 
as long as the second; second joint not remarkably larger at 
tip; remaining joints not abruptly smaller: thorax sangui¬ 
neous, sometimes with two blackish spots at base, which in some 
specimens are so dilated as to occupy nearly all the surface ex¬ 
cepting the anterior margin and a re-entering angle; scutel san¬ 
guineous, with sometimes a blackish more or less dilated spot 
each side at base: hemelytra immaculate ; beneath sanguineous 
varied with black: feet black. 
Length to tip of hemelytra about one fourth of an inch. 
A specimen was sent me from Georgia by Mr. Oemler, and 
in my cabinet are others which I think were taken in Pa. A 
variety has the scutel entirely black and the thorax black ex¬ 
cepting the anterior margin. 
13. C. scrupeus, Black; thorax with two black dots, and with 
the scutel yellowish. 
Inhab. U. S. 
Body black: head with a dull yellowish line and superior 
orbits, variegated at the mouth and beneath : antenna , first joint 
more than half the length of the second, and rather robust 
hairy; second joint a little thicker at tip : thorax yellowish, 
anterior margin, two dots and a slight dot near the posterior 
angles black: scutel yellowish, dusky on the middle of the base 
and on the basal angles: hemelytra immaculate: feet with 
minute pale points. 
Length to tip of hemelytra nearly one-fourth of an inch. 
Resembles insignis Nob., but the second joint of the antennee 
of that species is not obviously thicker at tip ; the first joint is 
naked and much shorter than that of the present species, &c. 
14. C. circumcinctus , Above black; with a sanguineous mar¬ 
gin, thoracic line and scutel. 
Inhab. Indiana. 
Body black : head beneath excepting the trophi, sanguineous : 
