40 HEMIPTERA-HETEROPTERA. 
11. Podisus congrex. (Tab. I. fig. 20.) 
Telepta congrex, Stal, Stett. ent. Zeit. xxiii. p. 91. 33°. 
Podisus congrex, Stal, En. Hem. pt. 1, p. 51. 17. 
Hab. Mexico! (Mus. Berol.); Guatemata, Capetillo, San Gerdnimo (Champion) ; 
Costa Rica, Irazu (Rogers). | 
The pronotal spines vary in colour from dark fuscous to bright rosy red. The size 
is also inconstant, specimens examined having been found to range from 9 millims. to 
13 millims. in length. The specimen figured is from Costa Rica, and was compared 
and identified by the late Prof. Stal. 
12. Podisus invaria. (Tab. IV. fig. 21.) 
Arma invaria, Walk. Cat. Het. i. p. 185. 151. 
Hab. Mexico, Oaxaca (Brit. Mus.). 
The figure is from the type in the British Museum. 
C. Anterior lateral margins of the pronotum not crenulated. 
13. Podisus iole. (Tab. IV. fig. 1.) 
Telepta jole, Stal, Stett. ent. Zeit. xxiii. p. 92. 35’. 
Podisus iole, Stal, En. Hem. i. p. 52. 20. 
Hab. Mexico (coll. Sign.). 
14. Podisus thetis. (Tab. IV. fig. 2.) 
Telepta thetis, Stal, Stett. ent. Zeit. xxiii. p. 92. 86; En. Hem. i. p, 52. 21. 
Hab. Mexico!; Guaremata, Zapote (Champion). — . 
The specimen figured is typical, and from the collection of Dr. Signoret. A variety 
has been received from Guatemala which differs in the upper surface being dark 
olivaceous; the anterior half of the pronotal lateral borders luteous as in the typical 
form. 
D. Scutellum ornamented with a macular callosity at each basal angle. 
(Subg. Tylospilus, Sta.) 
15. Podisus acutissimus. (Tab. II. fig. 22.) 
Podisus (Tylospilus) acutissimus, Stal, En. Hem. i. p. 53. 27°. 
Tylospilus acutissimus, Uhler, Bull. U.S. Geol. & Geog. Surv. ii. p. 2837. 
Hab. Norta America, Colorado?, Texas!-—Mexico!; GuaTemaLa, San Gerdnimo 
(Champion). 
Stal enumerates the following varieties :— 
Var. a. 
Thorace posterius fusco vel nigricante. 
