COSMOPEPLA.—MORMIDEA. 53 
Its affinity is with the genus Stodiia, found in the Palearctic, Oriental, and Australian 
Regions. 
1. Cosmopepla decorata. 
Eysarcoris decoratus, Hahn, Wanz. Ins. ii. p. 117. f. 1981; Dall. List Hem. i. p. 225. 1?. 
Pentatoma decorata, H.-S. Wanz. Ins. vii. p. 96. 
Cosmopepla decorata, Stal, En. Hem. ii. p. 19. 2°; Uhler, Bull. U.S. Geol. & Geog. Surv. ii. 
p. 2844, 
Hab. Norta America, Texas*, Arizona*—Mexico!?34, Oaxaca (Mus. Berol.); 
GuaTeMaLA*, San Gerénimo (Champion); Costa Rica (Mus. Berol.), Irazu (Rogers). 
Prof. Uhler thinks it probable that this species, the following (C. conspicillaris), and 
C. carnifex constitute in reality but one species. He considers the last as “ the con- 
tinental form, but which does not cross the meridian of the Sierra Nevada Mountains; 
the second does not cross beyond the eastern base of the Rocky Mountains,” whilst C. de- 
corata ‘is the subtropical southern form.” All the specimens, however, which I have 
seen, or which we have received from Central America, have been constant in character ; 
and this view was taken by Prof. Stal, who described a fourth species from Colombia. 
2. Cosmopepla conspicillaris. (Tab. V. fig. 8.) 
Eysacoris conspicillaris, Dall. List Hem. i. p. 225. 27. 
Cosmopepla conspicillaris, Stal, En. Hem. ii. p. 19. 4°; Uhler, Bull. U.S. Geol. & Geog. Surv. ii. 
p. 284. 2°; Wheeler’s Rep. Geog. Expl. v. Zool. p. 830%. 
Hab. North AMERICA, Vancouver’s Island 2, Colorado ?, California 3 4—Muxico 23 
(coll. Sign.). 
Prof. Uhler describes this as “a most variable species, both in colour and size. 
Specimens measure from 4 to 74 millims. in length by 3 to 5 millims. in width. The 
orange band across the pronotum sometimes invades almost two thirds of its surface ._ 
posteriorly, and the black colour is replaced by pale dirty rufous.” 
MORMIDEA. 
Mormidea, Amyot et Serville, Hist. des Hém. p. 184 (1843); Stal, Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Forh. 1867, 
p. 527, 
This genus is differentiated at once from the preceding by the shape of the scutellum, 
which is more or less triangular; it agrees with it, as St&l has accurately diagnosed, in the 
character “ tibiis omnibus teretibus, sulco destitutis ;” and is separated from the following 
genus Hbalus by “articulo primo rostri bucculas paullo superante.” It is confined to 
North and Tropical America ; and in the Old World its nearest congener is the Ethiopian 
genus Aspavia. It exhibits a strikingly variable character in the structure of the pro- 
notum, the lateral angles of which are generally found in the same species either pro- 
duced and spinous or obtusely rounded. 
