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TAGALIS. 
Tagalis, Stal, Rio Jan. Hemipt. p. 76 (1858) ; Hemipt. Fabr. i. p. 180, nota; Enum. Hemipt. ii. 
p. 124, and iv. p. 91. 
St&l included in this genus a single Tropical-American species, which is now known 
to extend as far north as the Mexican State of Tabasco; a second very distinct form 
from Panama is here added. The genus is easily recognizable by the three long spines 
on the anterior tibie, the anterior femora also having a double row of spines. These 
spines, like those on the underside of the head, arise from conical prominences. Most 
of the specimens obtained by myself were beaten from the pendent withered leaves of 
various musaceous plants. 
1. Tagalis inornata. (Tab. XI. figg. 6,3; 64, anterior leg.) 
Tagalis inornata, Stal, Rio Jan. Hemipt. p. 76 (2) (1858)'; Enum. Hemipt. ii. p. 124°. 
Saica annulipes, Uhler, P. Z. 8. 1894, p. 210 (?)*. 
Hab. Mexico, Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith); Guatemaua, Senahu in Vera Paz, 
Las Mercedes, Pantaleon (Champion); Panama, Bugaba, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). 
—Brazit, Rio Janeiro! 2; ANTILLES, Grenada 3. 
Found in numbers at Senahu and Las Mercedes. This insect is usually testaceous, 
but the head, thorax (the disc of the anterior lobe of the pronotum excepted), and 
scutellum are in a few examples more or less piceous or black. The connexivum in 
fresh specimens is stained with carmine-red. The basal joint of the antenne is blackish 
at the tip, and in the males clothed with very long fine projecting hairs. The 
anterior femora are armed beneath with a row of very short spines, with about five 
longer spines intermixed, and they also have a row of long spines in front. The 
anterior tibie have three long curved spines on their basal half externally. The anterior 
trochanters and coxe, the underside of the head, and the front of the prosternum are 
also armed with spines. The femora usually have a narrow fuscous or blackish annulus 
before the tip, but this is not always distinct. The scutellum and post-scutellum are 
each armed with a long erect spine, and there is a very short spine just in front of the 
post-scutellar one. Twenty-seven specimens have been received. 
2. Tagalis seminigra, n. sp. (Tab. XI. fig. 7, 2 .) 
Elongate, slender, shining, very sparsely pubescent; black or piceous, the basal portion of the head and the 
disc of the anterior lobe of the pronotum sometimes reddish; the abdomen ochraceous, with the base 
beneath and the middle of the dorsum blackish, and the connexivum carmine-red; antenna: with joint 1 
broadly black at the base and more narrowly so at the apex, and for the rest flavous, the other three 
joints brownish; legs with the femora and the base of the tibie black and for the rest flavous; anterior 
cox and trochanters piceous, the intermediate and hind pairs flavous; elytra with the nervures and their 
immediate vicinity fuscous, for the rest pale ochraceous; the femora with a few very fine, long, projecting 
hairs. Head with two spines on each side beneath, and the prosternum with a still longer spine on each 
side in front; eyes large; antenne as long as the body, joint 1 about as long as 2 and 3 united, clothed 
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