204 HEMIPTERA-HETEROPTERA. 
3. Spiniger limbatus. 
Reduvius limbatus, Lep. et Serv. Encycl. Méth. x. p. 275 (1825)*; Blanch. Hist. Ins. iii. p. 1047, 
Spiniger limbatus, Burm. Handb. der Ent. ii. p. 234°; Hahn, Wanz. Ins. i. p. 28°; Amyot et 
Serv. Hist. Nat. Ins. Hémipt. p. 335°; Stal, Stett. ent. Zeit. 1859, p. 398°, and 1862, p. 4567; 
Berl. ent. Zeitschr. 1869, p. 283°; Enum. Hemipt. ii. p.115°; Walk. Cat. Hemipt. Heteropt. 
vii. p. 154°°. 
Acrocoris circumcinctus, Hahn, Wanz. Ins. iii. p. 22, t. 80. fig. 246™. 
Hab. Mexico? ® 1°, Vera Cruz (Sallé, in Mus. Holm.) ; Guatemaua, Teleman in Vera 
Paz (Champion); Panama (Boucard), Volcan de Chiriqui 3000 feet (Champion).— 
Amazons, Paré}°; Braziu! 9%, Bahia‘ ®, Rio Janeiro 4 !°. 
Found in numbers on the slope of the Volcan de Chiriqui, and singly at Teleman in 
the Polochic valley. In all the Central-American specimens the pronotum is ochraceous, 
with a black transverse fascia or a line of spots on the disc of the posterior lobe in front, 
and a transverse row of black spots on the anterior lobe behind; the two long spines 
on the disc of the anterior lobe are constantly black. Stal’s Mexican specimens have 
been examined. 
4. Spiniger superbus, n. sp. (Tab. XII. figg. 17, 17 4, 2.) 
Q. Elongate, robust, opaque above, the legs and under surface moderately shining ; sanguineous, fading to 
ochreous, the posterior lobe of the pronotum with two very broad black vitte on the disc, not reaching the 
base, and an oblique black patch on each side in front; the scutellum black in the middle in front; the 
elytra black, with a very large triangular ochreous patch a little before the apex of the corium, extending 
narrowly along the costa to the base and inwards to the base of the membrane ; the connexival segments 
each with a black patch at the outer apical angles ; the antenna, and the apical joints of the rostrum in great 
part, black; the legs black, with the base of the hind femora very narrowly, and that of the other femora 
broadly, sanguineous, the tarsi fuscous; the body and legs sparsely clothed with long hairs, the antenne 
finely pubescent, with longer hairs intermixed. Head oblong, the juge not raised, the gene obtuse at 
the apex, the eyes very large, the ocelli large and prominent; antenna moderately elongate, joint 1 short, 
about reaching the ocelli, and less than one-fourth the length of 2. Pronotum almost smooth, strongly 
constricted at the sides before the middle; the anterior lobe short, one-half the length and about one-half 
the width of the posterior lobe, unarmed, shallowly and obliquely bisulcate on each side of the disc; the 
anterior angles stout, obliquely prominent, obtuse at the tip; the transverse median sulcus widened out 
into a deep fovea in the centre; the posterior lobe strongly dilated, the hind angles obtuse and raised, 
the basal margin reflexed. Scutellum produced into a long semierect spine. Elytra extending to beyond 
the abdomen. Legs elongate, rather stout; femora unarmed; anterior and intermediate tibie with a 
very elongate fossa beneath, extending to the middle; posterior tarsi with joint 3 a little longer than 2. 
Ventral segments 2-4 sharply carinate. 
Length 31; breadth of the abdomen 9, of the pronotum nearly 8 millim. 
Hab. GUATEMALA, Sinanja in Vera Paz (Champion). 
One example, from a tributary valley of the Polochic. This fine species does not fit 
into any of the sections of the genus noticed by Stal. 
5. Spiniger rubropictus. (Tab. XII. figg. 16,164, 2.) 
Platymeris rubropicta, Herr.-Schaff. Wanz. Ins. viii. p. 31, t. 260. figg. 806 (¢ )’. 
Spiniger rubropictus, Stal, Berl. ent. Zeitschr. 1869, p. 235°; Enum. Hemipt. ii. p. 117°. 
