LARGUS. 221 
poorly represented in the first and principally and most characteristically inhabiting 
the second. | | 
Eyes very prominently stylated. 
1. Largus lunatus. 
Cimex lunatus, Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. p. 8302. 287 7. 
Cimex lunaris, Gmel. Syst. Nat. i. 4, p- 2178. 429. 
Lygeus lunatus, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iv. p. 167.110; Syst. Rhynch. p. 232. 140. 
Lygeus calidus, Fabr. Syst. Rynch. p. 230. 180. 
Lygeus lunulatus, Fabr. Syst. Rynch. Index, p. 16. 
Acinocoris calidus, Hahn, Wanz. Ins. ii. p. 114, fig. 194; Blanch. Hist. des Ins. p. 128. 1°. 
Largus lunulatus, Burm. Handb. ii. 1, p. 282. 1°; Blanch. Hist. des Ins. p. 127. 1*. 
Largus interruptus, H.-S. Wanz. Ins. ix. p. 181. fig. 978 °. 
Acinocoris lunatus, Stal, Hem. Fabr. i. p.81. 1; Uhler, Bull. U.S. Geol. & Geog. Surv. ii. p.315°. 
Largus lunatus, Stal, En. Hem. i. p. 92.17; Berg. Hem. Argent. p. 112. 189°. 
Hab. Norta America, California °—Mexico®; Panama (coll. Dist.).— ANTILLES (coll. 
Dist.) ; Guiana, Demerara (coll. Dist.), Surinam ®78, Cayenne 15; Brazin? 4678, Para 3, 
Madeira river, Amazons (coll. Dist.), Rio Janeiro’; Peru®; ARGENTINE REPUBLIC 8. 
This species is of a very variable nature, the bright vitte and fascie to the pronotum 
and corium becoming frequently almost obsolete. My specimen from Panama agrees 
well with Herrich-Schaffer’s figure. 
Eyes moderately stylated. 
Base of metasternum and basal joint of abdomen greyish or ochraceous. 
2. Largus subligatus, n. sp. (Tab. XX. fig. 11.) 
Head black, shining, sparingly pilose. Antenne black, the apical joint somewhat paler; basal joint distinctly 
incrassated at its apex, third joint very short, second longer than third, a little shorter than fourth, basal 
joint longest. Pronotum with the anterior lobe shining black, the posterior lobe shining piceous, coarsely 
_and thickly punctate, the posterior margin red and impunctate ; scutellum piceous, pilose, coarsely punc- 
tate, with its extreme apex sometimes obscurely reddish. Corium dull reddish; basal portion of clavus 
and a very large subtriangular apical patch on corinm (the apex of which in some specimens extends 
nearly to base) black. Membrane very pale ochraceous. Body beneath black; sternum and posterior 
segmental margins to abdomen greyish tomentose (this tomentosity, except in carefully captured speci- 
mens, is more or less obsolete). Legs black, pilose; anterior femora armed with two subapical spines, one 
long and prominent, the one near apex subprominent. Rostrum black, reaching intermediate coxe. 
Long. 15~19 millim. 
Hab. Guatemaua, San Gerénimo, Tocoy (Champion). 
The females in all the specimens examined are considerably larger than the males. 
The species principally varies, as already pointed out, in the amount of black suffusion 
to the corium, caused by the extension or retrenchment of the apical triangular 
patch. 
