and one showed a healed wound.

numerous.

Perforated humeri were

There was nothing to show the identity of the persons buried in the pit, the only articles found being the two shell beads mentioned. The territory was at one time occupied by the Neuter Nation and the Wenroes, people of Iroquoian family, and by the Missisaugas, of Algonquin stock. Both these people had the custom of burying their dead in communal pits, with ceremonials. Other pits on the Niagara Frontier, probably Neuter, contained many articles, which had been thrown into the pit with the bodies. The absence of articles here would seem to indicate an origin other than Neuter. The village at Shelby may have been a Wenro village, but it has its own cemeteries which seem to have been large enough to account for its dead. It is entirely probable that the Missisaugas who wandered over the country thereabouts considered the high hill a suitable place to bury their dead and there held a "Feast of the Dead".

Hemipterological Gleanings.

BY EDWARD P. VAN DUzee.

The following descriptions and synonymical notes have accumulated in the course of my studies on our North American Hemiptera during the past year or so:

CAPSIDAE.

Phytocoris rufus n. sp.

Closely allied to mundus but smaller, more reddish in color and wanting the vestiture of whitish hairs so conspicuous in that species. Length 4 to 41⁄2 mm.

General characters substantially as in mundus. Surface almost nude, with a few short scattering hairs only, not distinctly long-pubescent as in the allied form. Notch on the sinistral aspect of the male genital segment rounded, not right angled as in mundus, the margin behind this feebly subangularly produced.

Color dull rufous becoming dark sanguineous on the head, basal joint of the antennæ and legs; pronotum, outer margin of the elytra and most of the lower surface paler; basal joint of the antennæ and the femora obscurely irrorate with paler, the latter pale at base. Second joint of the antennæ paler with a dusky band before the middle and another at apex. Third and fourth joints blackish, the narrow base of the third pale. Tip of the rostrum black. Hind submargin of the pronotum with a dusky vitta, the extreme edge paler, thus giving the impression that there is a linear depression along this margin. Corium shaded with obscure sanguineous forming an oblique vitta on the disk posteriorly and another parallel along the claval suture. Cuneus entirely sanguineous or sometimes a little paler exteriorly, marked with two dusky points on the inner margin. Membrane deeply infuscated with a pale spot at the apex of the cuneus, the nervures fusco-sanguineous. Tarsi black, the posterior pale at base.

Described from ten examples representing both sexes, taken at Sevenoaks, Florida, on May 1st, 1908, and listed as Phytocoris sp. in my report on Florida Hemiptera. (P. 180, No. 139.)

This species is very close to mundus but its smaller size, deeper color, the pale posterior margin to the pronotum bordered by dusky, the obscurely banded second antennal joint, colored cuneus, darker membrane, and especially the want of the conspicuous pale pubescence on the upper surface will distinguish it.

Phytocoris vau n. sp.

Aspect of tibialis but larger and more elongated: pale greenish-yellow; antennæ, legs, clavus and membrane rufous or rufopiceous. Length 6 mm.

Head small, nearly vertical before. Antennæ slender; basal joint stout, as long as the pronotum, armed with short stiff black hairs; second joint very long, two and one-half times the length of the first; third and fourth together not longer than the second. Pronotum polished, much narrowed anteriorly, the sides feebly arcuated. Elytra long, parallel, minutely sericeus, the corium polished.

Color pale greenish-yellow. Clypeus, cheeks and loræ rufous. Basal joint of the antennæ dark rufous, immaculate; second paler, becoming piceous at apex, marked with a pale ring at base and a broader one beyond the middle; apical joints fuscous, the third narrowly pale at base. Rostrum rufous at base, black beyond the middle. Pronotum and scutellum entirely pale. Clavus rufo-piceous, the pale pubescence conspicuous on this dark surface. Corium pale with a rufous vitta at the inner angle connecting the dark color on the clavus with that on the membrane. Cuneus rufous at apex. Membrane fuscous tinged with rufous and minutely irrorate and clouded with whitish on its disk. Beneath pale. Legs almost sanguineous; the tibiæ paler becoming infuscated at apex; tarsi blackish.

Described from one male example taken at Pasadena, California, June 17th, 1909, by Mr. Fordyce Grinnell Jr. This slender species is very distinct by its pale greenish color with rufous antennæ, legs. clavus and inner angle to the corium.

Argyrocoris n. gen.

Closely allied to Phytocoris. Head nearly horizontal; the vertex oblong, continued in the plane of the pronotum; moderately convex. without a median sulcus. Eyes oval, nearly vertical, contiguous to the angles of the pronotum; clypeus strongly produced, narrow, compressed. First joint of the antennæ short, scarcely thickened, little longer than the inner margin of the eye; second linear, longer than the head and pronotum together; third more slender and shorter; fourth still more slender and shorter than the first. Pronotum transverse, base and apex truncate, the latter reaching nearly to the outer angles of the eyes; collum entirely wanting; sides nearly straight, scarcely carinate. Scutellum small. Elytra and wings. as in Phytocoris. Rostrum passing the posterior coxæ. Anterior coxæ elongated. Posterior femora strap-like as in Phytocoris. Basal joint of the tarsi not longer than the second. Arolia linear, long and free as in this sub-family.

This genus has the form and aspect of Phytocoris, but the entire absence of a pronotal collum, the short basal joint of the antennæ and the strongly compressed and arched clypeus seem to warrant its separation. It has much the aspect of the Mirinæ but the non-sulcate vertex, elongated anterior coxæ and short basal joint of the tarsi exclude it from that division.

Argyrocoris scurrilis n. sp.

Testaceous white; pronotum with five lines of appressed silvery scales the three median of which are continued over the head. Length 5 mm.

Vertex viewed from above oblong, a little longer than broad between the eyes; clypeus abrupt, narrow, viewed from the side forming a semicircular plate distinctly wider than the narrow cheeks and loræ. Eyes castaneous. Basal joint of the antennæ surpassing the clypeus by about one-third of its length, attenuated on its immediate base, a little thicker than the second; third about two-thirds the length of the second; fourth short and feeble, not half the length of the third and much thinner, hardly so long as the first. Callousities of the pronotum obsolete. Elytra long, parallel, surpassing the tip of the abdomen by practically the whole length of the membrane. Hind femora much compressed, ligulate, regularly narrowing from near the base.

Color whitish testaceous, clothed with scattering soft white hairs. Pronotum with five slender longitudinal lines of brilliant silvery-white appressed scale-like hairs, the three median of which are continued on the head and are connected behind by a similar line across the base of the scutellum; the pronotal lines more or less distinctly margined with fuscous. Scutellum somewhat infuscated at base, the broad median line and slender margins silvery pubescent. Elytra nearly uniclorous. Membrane white, sparingly marmorate with fuscous beyond the areoles. Legs concolorous, the hind femora with three longitudinal black lines below, which are more or less visible above. Tarsi slightly infuscated, the claws black.

Described from three examples taken at light in the Huachuca Mts., Arizona, in July, by Prof. H. G. Barber.

Eustictus venatorius n. sp.

Closely allied to grossus but of a yellowish-testaceous color mottled and dotted with fuscous or black. Length 7-8 mm.

Head as in grossus; exerted base polished black with a fulvous spot behind the inner angle of each eye; surface pale clouded with fuscous between the antennæ and more indistinctly on the vertex; cheeks polished black; throat blackish. Antennæ pale closely dotted with black; tip of the second joint and apical one-half of the third whitish; fourth joint black, the extreme tip paler. Pronotum coarsely punctured, variegated, anteriorly mostly black, posteriorly largely pale. Scutellum black; a large