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Show 712 PROF. P. R. UHLER ON HEMIPTERA-HETEROPTERA [NOV. 21, from the humeri to near the bluntly rounded anterior angle; the surface polished, with the callosities large, smooth, almost contiguous, the suture behind them faintly defined, the humeri acutely tubercular, the anterior margin slightly excavated across to the middle of the eyes, and the posterior margin feebly sinuated. Scutellum of medium size, about as wide as long, prominently convex. Legs of medium size, the posterior femora long, curved, compressed; unguiculi long, slender, widely spreading apart. Hemelytra complete, much longer than the abdomen, bluntly rounded at tip, almost parallel-sided, the costal margin only a little curved, abruptly reflexed, the discoidal vein well defined, and the membrane almost as long as the corium. Abdomen ample, not contracted at base, blunt at tip in the female, but tapering towards tip in the male. CYLLOCEPS PELLICIA, sp. nov. Pale testaceous, long elliptical, polished, minutely pubescent. Head yellow, black along the middle line, including the tylus, sometimes with a black band between the lower line of the eyes; bucculae blackish; rostrum yellowish, piceous at tip, reaching behind the middle coxae. Antennae long, gradually decreasing towards the tip, the basal and second joints stout, the second much the longest, obscure yellowish, the third a little shorter than the second, and the fourth still shorter, the basal one shortest, a little longer than the head, black excepting at base and tip. Pronotum moderately polished, dull yellow, obscured by brown posteriorly and towards the sides, the surface a little scabrous, transversely wrinkled, remotely punctate, minutely pubescent, the sides beneath more or less infuscated and a little scabrous ; sternal segments polished, mostly yellow, those of the mesosternum more or less dusky. CoxaB and legs pale yellow, the femora usually a little darker at base and with the immediate tip piceous, the nails and tip of tarsi piceous. Scutellum dark brown, obsoletely carinate on the middle line, polished, not distinctly punctate. Hemelytra pellicular, translucent, pale testaceous, obsoletely fuscous on the inner border of the clavus and corium, the coarse bounding vein at basal angle of membrane piceous, the vein on middle of corium is also dusky in some specimens; veins of membrane usually a little brownish. Venter yellow, more or less dusky on the middle, with the sides tinged with rufous or orange and the ovipositor piceous. Length to end of venter 2 | millim., to tip of membrane 3 millim.; width of base of pronotum barely 1 millim. Several specimens of both sexes, collected by Dr. Gundlach in Cuba, were submitted to m e for examination, and others are in the collection from the island of St. Vincent, which were captured by Mr. Herbert H . Smith in the month of May. I have also seen a specimen from Southern Florida and others from the island of San Domingo. Not having specimens for dissection, I have been unable to ascertain a few points necessary to establish the precise relations |
