212 HEMIPTERA-HETEROPTERA. 
Opinus crocinopterus, Walk. Cat. Hemipt. Heteropt. viii. p. 1‘. 
Pirates semirufus, Walk. op. cit. vii. p. 99°. 
Hab. Mexico? * (Mus. Holm.'!*; Mus. Vind. Ces.), Presidio de Mazatlan (Forrer), 
Orizaba (Sallé, in Mus. Brit.>), Jalapa (Hége); GuateMaLa, Pantaleon, Mirandilla, 
Zapote (Champion); Panama, Bugaba (Champion). 
We possess eleven specimens of this species, seven of which are from Guatemala. A 
male from Pantaleon is figured. 
PHORUS. 
Phorus, Stal, Stett. ent. Zeit. xxiii. p. 458, nota (1862); Hemipt. Afr. i. p. 113; Ofv. Vet.-Ak. 
Forh. 1866, p. 251; Enum. Hemipt. ii. pp. 105, 108, and iv. p. 56. 
A monotypic Tropical-American species, ranging from Panama to Brazil. The name 
Phorus has long been preoccupied in Mollusca. 
1. Phorus femoratus. (Tab. XIII. fig. 4, ¢.) 
Cimex femoratus, De Geer, Mém. des Ins. iii. p. 346, t. 35. fig. 4 (1773)'; Goeze, Ent. Beytr. ii. 
p- 270 (1778) ’?; Retzius, Gen. et Spec. Ins. De Geer, p. 87°. 
Phorus femoratus, Stal, Enum. Hemipt. ii. p. 108*. 
Cimex arcuatus, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. 4, p. 2181 (1788) °. 
Pirates lepidus, Walk. Cat. Hemipt. Heteropt. vii. p. 105°. 
Hab. Panama (Boucard).—Guiana, Surinam! 45; Amazons, Pard®; Brazt‘. 
We have received a single male example of this beautiful Tropical-American insect, 
labelled as having been found by M. Boucard at Panama. It has the head, thorax, 
scutellum, meso- and metasternum, and nearly the apical half of the abdomen (the con- 
nexival margins excepted), violaceous or ceruleous, the anterior lobe of the pronotum 
being green on the disc. The elytra have the outer part of the corium broadly rufescent 
and the inner portion testaceous; the clavus testaceous, with the apex white; the mem- 
brane in great part black, with a transverse arcuate fascia a little below the base, and an 
elongate, anteriorly truncated, stripe in the middle at the apex, white, the basal portion 
being of the same colour as the inner part of the corium. The basal half of the venter 
is bright rufous. The anterior legs have the femora entirely rufous, and the tibiz 
testaceous, with the apex blackish externally. The intermediate and hind legs are 
nigro-violaceous, with the femora broadly testaceous at the base and the tarsi fusco- 
testaceous. The antenne are black, with the first joint entirely, and the second to near 
the tip, testaceous. A Brazilian specimen ( ¢ ) before me, belonging to the Stockholm 
Museum, merely differs from the Panama insect in having the posterior lobe of the 
pronotum reddish. 
