HEMIPTEEA OF COLORADO. 
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Athysamis gaiuiuaroides VanD. Det. YanDuzee,. 
Colorado (Gillette—see YanDuzee, 3). Colorado (YanDuzee, 4). 
* 
Foot-hills, five miles west of Fort Collins, April 25th 
(Gillette). 
Athysamis instabilis YanD. Det. YanDuzee. 
Colorado (YanDuzee, 4). 
Steamboat Springs, July 26th; Leaclville, August 23cl 
(Gillette). 
Athysamis pliitoniiis Uhl. 
Clear Creek Canon, August 6th (Uhler, 5). Colorado (YanDuzee, 4). 
Athysamis relativiis n. sp. 
Near obsoletus. Female: Clypeas fully one-tliircl longer than broad, sides nearly 
parallel, apex nearly truncate; lorae as long and nearly as broad as clypeus; genae 
broad, slightly depressed, outer margin broadly 
rounded, attaining tip of clypeus and moder¬ 
ately broad beneath the lorae; front as long as 
broad, less than twice as long as the clypeus, 
superior angle rather sharply rounded; face and 
anterior third of vertex rather coarsely shagreened, 
posterior two-thirds of vertex medially longitudi¬ 
nally wrinkled; disc of vertex nearly flat, at middle 
nearly two-thirds longer than at the eyes. Prono- 
tum smooth on anterior third, transversely wrinkled 
on posterior two-thirds, width more than twice the 
length, anterior margin broadly rounded, posterior 
rather strongly concave, posterior angles rounded, 
sides feebly carinated. Scutellum coarsely sha¬ 
greened, transverse groove curved forwards. Hind 
margin of last ventral segment with posterior 
angles produced, acute, with a broad shallow me¬ 
dian notch, having a short blunt tooth at the center. 
Color pale sordid yellowish; face with six smoky 
transverse lines on the front; vertex unicolorous; 
pronotum without distinct marking; scutellum with 
two small, more or less distinct, darker spot.- near 
base; elytra with nervures whitish, areoles more or 
less distinctly broadly margined with fitscous or 
blackish; venter yellow; lateral margins and apex 
of last ventral segment black; legs nearly concolor- 
ous, spots at bases of tibial spines black, tarsi infus- 
cate. Length 5 mm. 
Male: Clypeus a little narrower than in female; 
venter sometimes almost entirely black. 
Described from two females and one male. 
Fort Collins, Sei^tember 27th on grass (Gillette). 
* Athysamis 6-vitta1nis YanD. Ddt. V^anDuzee. 
Colorado (YanDuzee, 4). 
*In Trans. Amer. Eat. Soc, XIX, Mr. VanDuzet^ separates Athysanus on ‘'Elytra shorty 
without an appendix,” giving no exceptions. In his arrangeinent of the species of the- 
