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Show 192 PROF. P. R. UHLER ON T H E [Mar. 6, This is a common species with an extensive distribution. It inhabits Colombia, Central America, Mexico, California, Washington State, Oregon, Colorado and Utah, N e w Mexico, Arizona, Minnesota, Lower Canada, and all the Atlantic States from Maine to Florida, and tbe Gulf States west into Texas, as also San Domingo and Cuba. Degrees of maturity affect its colours and pattern of marking. POSOILOSCYTUS, Fieber. POSCILOSCYTUS (LYGUS) CUNEATUS (Dist.). Lygus cuneatus, Dist. Biol. Centr.-Am., Hem.-Het. p. 435, pi. 37. fig. 24. This is a common species in the Antilles and on the borders of the adjoining continent. It is found in Central America, Mexico, Texas, and Florida, and apparently as far north as Virginia. Specimens from the last-named State have passed through my hands, but, as their antennae were mutilated, a slight element of uncertainty exists in the identification. Many specimens were collected on the Mirabeau estate, April 7, as they came to the light at night. At Balthazar and on the Mount Gay estate they were swept from herbage in August. FuLvrus, Stal. 1. FULVIUS ATRATUS, Dist. Fulvius atratus, Dist. t. c. p. 282, pi. 27. fig. 18. Several specimens of this species were taken at Balthazar, March 7, and also early in August, in bushy places on herbage and at the light. Others were captured at Chantilly, and on the Grand Etang they were met with at an altitude of 1900 feet upon decaying weeds. In the United States this species frequents fungi in damp, shady borders of woods, and it flies freely in the sunshine. 2. FULVIUS LUNULATUS, sp. nov. Black, polished, oblong-ovate, with the head shorter than normal, wider than the apex of pronotum, and swollen between the eyes, vertex with a faint impressed line ; antennae dark brown, the second joint paler, very long, and white on the apical one-third, the third and fourth a little more slender than the second, but not setaceous; rostrum piceous, reaching behind tbe posterior coxae. Pronotum wider than long, tumidly convex on the middle, broadly indented, and grooved in the centre behind the collum, the posterior submargin bounded by an incised line; humeral angles acutely prominent, the lateral margin deeply sinuated. Scutellum piceous black, highly polished, convex. Legs pale fuscous, the anterior femora darker. Hemelytra black, or brownish black, marked with a minute pale fleck at the base of |