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3 elongate, 4 as long as or slightly longer than 3. Pronotum moderately constricted at the sides, the 
posterior lobe slightly depressed along the middle, the surface impressed with rather coarse scattered 
_ punctures. Venter convex in both sexes. : 
Length 13-2 millim. (¢ 2.) | 
Hab. Mexico, Ventanas in Durango, La Noria in Sinaloa (Hoge); Guatemata, 
San Gerénimo, Guatemala city, Rio Naranjo (Champion); Panama, Tolé, Panama city 
(Champion). . 
This is apparently the commonest species of the family in Central America; it was 
found in plenty in the vicinity of the city of Guatemala. The insect is very like 
Hebrus concinnus, Uhler; but it has 4-jointed antenne, and the head is constantly 
rufescent at the sides between the eyes. The form of the antenne seems to be quite 
constant. The venter is similarly formed in both sexes. A specimen from Guatemala 
city is figured. 
| MESOVELIA. 
Mesovelia, Mulsant et Rey, Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 1852, p. 138; Fieber, Europ. Hemipt. 
pp. 33, 105 (1861). 
Fieberia, Jakowleff, Bull. Mosc. xlviii. 1, p. 276 (1874). 
Of the four known species of Mesovelia, two are American, the genus ranging 
from the Eastern United States to the Amazons valley, and occurring also in some of 
the Antillean islands. 
1. Mesovelia mulsanti. (Tab. VIII. figg. 10, undeveloped ¢; 11, winged 9.) 
Mesovelia mulsanti, Buch. White, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1879, p. 268°. 
Mesovelia bisignata, Uhler, in Kingsley’s Stand. Nat. Hist. ii. p. 273, fig. 324 (1884)°; P.Z.S. 
1893, p. 706°; 1894, p. 217*; Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. (2) iv. p. 289°. 
Hab. Norta America, Eastern United States24, Texas, Lower California *— 
Mexico, Teapa in Tabasco (//. H. Smith); Panama, near the city (Champion).— 
Amazons!; ANTILLES, St. Vincent °, Grenada 4. 
Two fully-developed examples (2?) were found by Mr. Smith at Teapa. The 
fourteen specimens, including both sexes, found by myself in the vicinity of the city 
of Panama are without wings and have abbreviated elytra, the membrane being 
undeveloped. They do not differ from the Antillean specimens named UV. bisignata 
by Prof. Uhler, which fit the description of VM. mulsanti, Buch. White. I have seen 
a winged specimen from Texas (Belfrage). 
In fresh specimens of this insect the femora above, the hind tibize within and without, 
and the intermediate tibize externally, are set with long blackish spines or sete, the 
intermediate tibie have some very long hairs on the inner side near the apex, and the 
anterior and intermediate femora are armed on the inner side with a series of very 
short, fine spines, with longer spines intermixed. 
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