76 HEMIPTERA-HETEROPTERA. 
Body oblong, widening posteriorly, flattened, the head, pronotum, and apex of the abdomen clothed with | 
short curled hairs. | 
This genus includes a single species from the State of Panama. It is perhaps 
nearest allied to Hesus, from which it differs in the shape of the head, the relatively 
longer antenne and legs, the antenne with the first and third joints very elongate and 
the fourth joint short, the small eyes, the prominent neck-like constriction of the 
pronotum, the pronotum itself truncate at the base, the long genital segment in the 
male, &c. 
1. Miorrhynchus longipes, n. sp. (Tab. V. figg. 17,6 *; 17a, antenna.) 
3. Fuscous, opaque, the head, femora, and antenne more or less ferruginous, the antenne with the third 
joint black at the apex and the fourth black at the middle, the basal halves of the tibie flavo-testaceous ; 
the under surface, some rows of spots on the abdomen excepted, and the upper surface of the connexivum 
in part, coated with a thin whitish-ochraceous incrustation ; the short shaggy hairs on the head, pronotum, 
and apical margin of the abdomen, and the bristly hairs on the two basal joints of the antenne, as well 
as those on the femora, fulvous ; the raised portions of the scutellum and corium, and the apical margins 
of the connexival segments, also clothed with very short fulvous hairs. Head with a smooth bare oblong 
spot on each side between the eyes, the post-ocular portions moderately tumid, unarmed. Pronotum with 
the neck-like apex not wider than the head, granulate; the posterior portion conspicuously granulate, 
slightly callous at the sides, the latter parallel behind, rounded at the middle, and converging in front ; 
the anterior portion rounded at the sides in front, the outer callosities with a row of short hairs similar 
to those on the margins. Scutellum transversely wrinkled on each side of the indistinct median ridge, 
the margins slightly thickened. Corium arcuate-emarginate within. Abdomen widening to about the 
middle and slightly narrowing beyond ; connexivum rugosely punctured, the outer apical angles of the fifth 
segment laterally produced, those of the sixth segment strongly and subtriangularly produced posteriorly. 
Venter with a smooth bare spot on the middle of each segment, that on the sixth segment large. 
Length 7, breadth 23 millim. 
Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 3000 feet (Champion). 
One example. 
ARTAGERUS. 
Artagerus, Stal, Rio Jan. Hemipt. i. p. 67 (1860) ; Enum. Hemipt. ii. pp. 139, 142. 
In this Tropical-American genus the basal joint of the antenne and the femora and 
tibize appear to be excessively stout, but this is partly due to the spaces between the 
sete being filled up by an earthy incrustation, which usually leaves the tips only of 
the sete visible. The other joints of the antenne are very slender. The surface 
of the body is also more or less coated with earthy matter, hiding the sculpture and to 
‘some extent the very short, coarse, rusty-brown, matted hairs. In the males the sixth 
segment of the abdomen is strongly raised in the centre in front of the genital segments, 
forcing the apex of the membrane into a vertical position in repose. 
Three of the four known species of the genus occur within our limits, whence one 
other is now added. 
a. Antenne with joint 1 nearly twice as long as 3; outer apical angles of 
the connexival segments angularly projecting in both sexes, that of the 
fifth dilated into a very prominent triangular platgin the male. . .  setosus, Stal. 
* The insect is more widened posteriorly and also more elongate than represented by our artist. 
