SCOLOPOCERUS.—CERALEPTUS. 165 
basal half of lateral margins luteous. Corium subgranulose, more or less speckled with fuscous. Membrane 
pale hyaline, but appearing concolorous when folded from reflexion of upper surface of abdomen ; nervures 
brown and ramose. Connexivum pale ochraceous, each segment with a cluster of brownish punctures. 
Underside of body pale ochraceous; underside of head and sternum subgranulate, the basal portions of 
pro-, meso-, and metasternum fuscous. Rostrum reaching base of metasternum, pitchy towards tip, 
first joint a little shorter than head. Abdomen coarsely punctate. Legs pale ochraceous, spotted and 
annulated with pale fuscous. 
Long. 8 millim. . 
Hab. Mexico, Alvarez Mountains (Dr. Palmer). 
A specimen from Mexico, in the Stockholm Museum, appears to be a variety of this 
species, in which the fuscous markings are almost absent, and the whole upper surface, 
including the pronotum, is dull ochraceous. The sternum beneath is without the 
fuscous shading; and a fuscous spot is thus very distinct on pro-, meso-, and meta- 
.sternum; the abdomen beneath is also more mottled with pale fuscous. 
Apparently allied to 8. secundarius, Uhler, but differs by the rostrum reaching the 
base of metasternum, antenne with the joints of unequal thickness, and the colour of 
scutellum &c. 
CERALEPTUS. 
Ceraleptus, Costa, Cim. regn. Napol. cent. 2,t.11; Fieb. Eur. Hem. p. 219 (1861) ; Stal, Ofv. Vet.- 
Ak. Forh. 1872, no. 6, p. 53. 
The posterior coxe are contiguous or subcontiguous—a character which separates this 
genus from the preceding. But one American species is at present recorded :— 
1. Ceraleptus americanus. . 
Ceraleptus americanus, Stal, En. Hem. i. p. 219. 1°; Uhler, Bull. U.S. Geol. & Geog. Surv. ii. 
p. 2997. 
Hab. Norta America, Texas 12, California 2, Arizona 2.—MeExico ”. 
This species is included here on the authority of Prof. Uhler, who gives Mexico as a 
habitat, and states that the species varies greatly in size and in the thickness of the 
antenne, and somewhat in colour and distinctness of markings. 
Subfam. CORIZINA, 
Rhopalida, Stal, Hem. Afr. ii. pp. 1 & 111 (1865) ; Hem. Fabr. i. p. 67 (1868). 
Rhopalina, Stal, En. Hem. i. p. 219 (1870). 
Corizida, Mayr, Reise d. Nov. Hem. p. 121 (1866). 
Corizina, Stal, Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Férh. 1872, no. 6, pp. 50 & 54; En, Hem. iii. pp. 84 & 97 (1878). 
This subfamily, found in each of the great zoological regions, is well represented in 
Tropical America, apparently and according to present knowledge more numerously 
than in the eastern tropics, though the last are localities of which still comparatively 
little is known of the smaller Heteroptera. 
