PROC. ENT. SOC. WASH., VOL. 26, NO. 8, NOV., 1924 2! 1 A NEW SPECIES OF PSELLIOPUS (HEMIPTERA: REDUVIIDAE). Bv H. G. Barber, Roselle, N. J. Pselliopus latifasciatus, new species. Form rather broad. Sordid stramineous. Anterior lobe of head, with tylus, fascia running forward from between two small rounded black tubercles to the base of each antenna, a small spot between the eye and base of each antenna, posterior lobe with a broad lateral fascia running back from the eyes and con-nected near base of head with two broad somewhat crescentic fascia which run forward between the ocelli to connect at the transverse stricture, black; a some-what quadrangular stramineous spot between the ocelli. Antenna colored as in cinctus with the second and fourth segments about equal in length. Pronotum, except for a short median longitudinal black fascia anteriorly, unicolorous, some-times tinted with orange; scutellum sordid stramineous, with the Y-shaped callosed carina paler and with a whitish pruinose spot at base on either side; corium darker, somewhat ferrugino-fuscous; connexivum with narrow edge, except at incisures, the transverse fasciae outwardly narrow widely expanded within, ferrugino-fuscous; legs stramineous, not spotted but banded with black, the femora with six rings, the tibia with three rings before the middle; sternum and venter not fasciate, the latter with a small round black spot on segments two to six, situated midway between spiracles and middle of venter. Head, antennae and rostrum of the same character as in cinctus, the first named how-ever not so abruptly contracted to form the collum which appears somewhat shorter. Pronotum much more setose than in cinctus; anterior angle with a prominent, bluntly rounded tubercle directed obliquely forward and set with a seta; posterior angle armed with a prominent horizontal subacute tooth or spine which is directed backwards on a line with the outer margin, sometimes infus-cated at tip; anterior lobe with 10 to 12 prominently elevated, rounded tubercles, each set with a long seta; posterior lobe on the elevated disk granulate or pro-vided with numerous scattered low tubercles beset with setae; the disk not so sharply delimited laterally as in cinctus; posterior margin before scutellum weakly bi-sinuate. Scutellum a little more widely foliaceous than in cinctus. Corium with a rather dense coating of fine appressed hairs. Membrane brown-ish hyaline. Connexivum rather widely expanded and reflexed; extreme edge fuscous except just before incisures which are somewhat callosed; the transverse fusco-ferrugineous fascia narrow where it joins the margin just back of the incisures, widely expanded within. Terminal genital segment ot the male entire, slightly produced at apex in a short, stout, rather obtuse process, the posterior margins either side of process plainly callosed; the projecting genital lobes nearly straight, scarcely clubbed at apex, outwardly black. Length male: 11 mm.; width of abdomen 4.5 mm. Habitat. —Ty^c: male Keatchie, La., VI, 14, 1905 (U_. S. N. M. coll. La. Crop. Pest Comm.). Paratypes: males — Chain Brid2;e, Va. (U. S. N. M., D. H. demons Coll.); Boulder, Colo., Mch., Texas (U. S. N. M.); Plummer's Is., Md., IV, 5, 1914 (Coll. W. L. McAtee); La Hunta, Colo. (Oslar — my coll.): females —
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