28 HEMIPTERA-HETEROPTERA. 
6. Stiretrus anchorago. (Tab. I. figg. 14 & 15.) 
Cimex anchorago, Fab. Ent. Syst. p. 86. 25. 
Tetyra anchorago, Fab. Syst. Rhyng. p. 187. 44. 
Tetyra diana, Fab. Syst. Rhyng. p. 137. 45. 
Tetyra fimbriata, Say, Amer. Ent. pl. 43. fig. 1; Compl. Writ. i. p. 93, pl. 43. fig. 1. 
Asopus diana, Burm. Handb. ii. p. 381. 12'. 
Pentatoma pulchella, Hope, Cat. Hem. i. p. 427. 
Pentatoma anchorago, Hope, Cat. Hem. i. p. 42°. . 
Stiretrus diane, Germ. Zeitschr. i. p. 19. 194; H.-S. Wanz. Ins. v. p. 8, fig. 454. 
Asopus variegatus, H.-S. Wanz. Ins. iv. p. 90, fig. 427. 
Stiretrus anchorago, Dall. List Hem. i. p. 80. 7°; Stal, En. Hem. i. p. 24. 18°; Uhler, Bull. U.S. 
Geol. & Geog. Surv. ii. p. 281’. 
Stiretrus fimbriatus, Dall. List Hem. i. p. 81. 10; Uhler, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. xix. p. 369; 
Packard, Guide, p. 547, fig. 551 (5th ed.). 
Stiretrus ornatus, Dall. List Hem. i. p. 80. 8°. 
Stiretrus (Oncogaster) personatus, Stal (part.), En. Hem. i. p. 25. 14. 
Stiretrus atricapillus, Walk. (part.) Cat. Het. i. p. 115. 8, 9’. 
Tetyra violacea, Say, Am. Ent. pl. 438. fig. 2. 
Stiretrus personatus, Germ. Zeitschr. i. p. 16.12”; Stal, En. Hem. i. p. 25. 14. 
Stiretrus violaceus, Germ. Zeitschr. i. p. 12.3; A. et S. Hist. des Hém. p. 76. 2, pl.1. fig. 1; Dall. 
List Hem. i. p. 79. 3; Stal, En. Hem. i. p. 25. 15. 
Hab. NortH America, Connecticut®, Havannah!, Carolina’, Georgia??5, Texas§7, 
New Mexico’.—Mexico® (coll. Sign., Mus. Berol.), Vera Cruz®; Brit. Honpuras 
(Blancaneaux) ; GuateMaLa, Capetillo, San Geronimo, Vera Paz (Champion) ; Costa Rica 
(Van Patten); Panama (coll. Dist.). 
Of this variable and wide-ranging species Prof. Uhler writes:—‘ Almost all the 
varieties, from an almost uniform yellow jimbriatus through the red and blue diana to 
the uniform violet violacea, have passed through my hands.” The Central-American 
specimens which I have had the opportunity of examining vary from the form pulchella 
(ground-colour greenish black or reddish purple) to the var. violaceus. The form 
figured, Tab. I. fig. 14, is from Costa Rica, and has the fore femora banded as in some 
of the more typical species, one of which, with the fore femora unicolorous, is figured 
on the same Plate (fig. 15), from Guatemala. The specimen confounded by Walker 
with S. atricapilius, Hope, is a variety which is reddish and unicolorous, with the legs 
bluish black. SS. ornatus, Dall., is described as having the “thorax more than twice 
as broad as long,” which would render it distinct, and bring it into the first section of 
the genus. I have, however, with Mr. Waterhouse, carefully measured the type and 
only representative in the British Museum, and find that the pronotum does not exceed 
in breadth more than twice the length. I have included the S. personatus, Germ., as 
a variety on the authority of Prof. Uhler, who states that the same form occurs in 
Pennsylvania. “In Maryland it frequents Aus glabra, and sucks the blood of the 
