STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
795 
SAY’S HETEROPTEROU3 HEMIPTERA. 
on which is a brown spot; and a brown band before the carina 
and another on the terminal margin; lateral edge concavely 
arquated, without spines on its posterior third and tip : ter gum 
and beneath black: feet yellowish. 
Length to tip of hemelytra nearly three-twentieths of an inch. 
Resembles ciliata N. but may bo distinguished by the brown 
bands and the arquated exterior edge of the hemelytra. 
Araous, Fabr. 
1. A. crenatus, Antennae, second and third joints subequal, 
cylindrical [;] edge of the abdomen obtusely crenated. 
Inhab. U. S.» 
Body dull brown or yellowish brown; head inequal, with two 
longitudinal, indented lines: an acute projecting point before 
each eye; tip prominent, obtuso: antennce, second joint cylin- 
dric, hardly longer than the third, which is cylindrical, slightly 
narrower at base: fourth joint a little shorter than the third, 
rather thicker at the tip and obtuse : thorax quadrilineate; sides 
widely rounded, obviously recurved and irregularly dentato on 
the edge: scutel, margin elevated: hemelytra minutely dentate 
on the exterior basal edge: ter gum rufous; margin cinerous 
with blackish angular spots; edge rather deeply crenate: 
beneath dull rufous in the middle: feet yellowish, annulate with 
brownish. 
Length nearly nine-twentieths of an inch. 
Much larger than quadrilineatus Nob. which has short and 
robust antennae, the second joint smaller at base, &c. Mr. 
Nuttall presented me with an individual taken iu Missouri, and 
I possess other specimens obtained in this State. 
2. A. acutus, Third and fourth joints cf the antennae together, 
two-thirds the length of the second. 
Inhab. Florida and Indiana. 
Body fuscous: head inequal, with two longitudinal, indented 
lines; an acute, projecting point before each eye; tip promi¬ 
nent, obtuse : antennce black ; second joint elongated, narrower 
at base; third and fourth joints equal, thaken together not more 
than two-thirds the length of the second : thorax quadrilineate, 
three or four very obvious denticulations on the anterior part 
