— 29— Observations on some CAPSIDi'E with descriptions of a few new^ species. By p. R. Uhler. (No. 2.) Div. CYLLECORARIA. Pilophorus, Hahn. This genus was separated by Halin in his Icones ad Monog. Cim. I, No. 23, to contain a European species the Capsus hifasciaius Fab., which is also a synonym of Ciniex clavatus Linn. Since then two other species have been recognized, and all three have been placed in another genus {Camaronotus) by Fieber, in his Europaischen Hemiptera. Still later, Douglas and Scott in their British Hemiptera have gone so far as to base a family upon this genus, to which they have given the name Camaronotidce. North America is not less well provided with represen-tives of this genus than is Europe, and unless we are mistaken in the value of the characters employed to separate them, the United States has more species than the old world. Dr. O. M. Renter has recently studied the European forms of the Capsiihe, and with a larger amount of material than has been before any previous Hemipterist. Accordingly, with a wider view than any of his predecessors, he has deemed it more accurate to arrange this Pilophorus, in company with Mimocoris, Myrmicommus, Cremnocephalus, Ethelastia, Systellonotus, Lcemocoris, Era/icon's, etc. , in a division Pilophoraria. The genus Pilophorus has such a different facies from any of our other known Capsidce that it would seem to be recognizable at once by the shape and adjustment of the head alone. The Ant-like form of the body, especially in the nymph, together with its habit of rapidly coursing over the bark of trees renders it liable to be mistaken for one of the small red or brown Formicida;. Our American species differ much in the width of the body, the females being more robust than the males, but they are all more or less spindle-shaped, contracted across the basal half of the hemelytra. They have a broad head which curves back beyond the sides of the swollen pronotum, sits close against it, is of a conical form, scooped out behind and below there is a high carina connecting the eyes, and the face is very sloping anteriorly. The males usually have a more parallel-sided prothorax than the females. I. P. confusus Kirsclib. Rhyncliot, Wieshatlen, p. 133, 9. I'his species agrees almost exactly with the insect so named by Kirschbaum, of which I have several examples received direct from Meyer-Diir of Bergdorf, Switzerland, and which were determined by him to be the true P. coji/usus. Entomologica Americana. Vol. hi. 5 May, 1887,
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