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Reduvius mutillarius, Guér. in Ramon de la Sagra’s Hist. fis. polit. y nat. de Cuba, Ins. p. 171° 
(nec Fabr.). | 
Rasahus (Macrosandalus) thoracicus, Stal, Enum. Hemipt. ii. p. 106". 
Hab. Nortu America, Southern States 8, Louisiana! 23 6, Texas’, Lower California’. 
—Mexico®?9 (Mus. Holm. 411), Presidio de Mazatlan, Ciudad in Durango (forrer), 
Amula and Omilteme in Guerrero (H. H. Smith), Orizaba (Sallé, in Mus. Brit.° ; 
Bilimek, in Mus. Vind. Ces.), Atoyac (Schumann), Jalapa (Hége); GuateMaLa, San 
Gerénimo (Champion), Guatemala city (Salvin); Panama §.—Amazons, Paré 8 ; 
ANTILLES, Cuba & 7 8 10, 
Apparently a common insect in Mexico. Prof. Uhler’ has called attention to the 
colour-variation in this species, comparing it in this respect with Sirthenea stria 
(carinata). ‘The head and pronotum are sometimes entirely rufous, sometimes entirely 
black, or, usually, black, with the posterior lobe only of the latter rufous (¢horacicus, 
Stal); the legs are generally rufo-testaceous, with the intermediate. and hind femora 
broadly flavous at the base, but sometimes the reddish portions are almost entirely 
black; the ochreous coloration at the base of the elytra varies in extent, usually 
extending down the outer portion of the corium; the membrane, however, is constantly 
black or blackish, with a large oval or rounded ochreous patch about the middle, and 
sometimes with indications of a paler spot at the apex. The pronotum is entirely 
rufous in the earlier stages of this species. One of Stal’s types of &. thoracicus has 
been seen. <A specimen from Atoyac is figured. 
4. Rasahus hamatus. (Tab. XIII. fig. 8, ¢.) 
Reduvius hamatus, Fabr. Spec. Ins. ii. p. 881 (1781)*; Syst. Rhyng. p. 278”. 
Callisphodrus hamatus, Stal, Hemipt. Fabr. i. p. 121°. 
Rasahus (Macrosandalus) hamatus, Stal, Enum. Hemipt. ii. p. 106* (nec Walk.). 
Rasahus hamatus, Uhler, P. Z. 8. 1894, p. 209°. 
La Punaise Mouche & deux taches, Stoll, Représ. Punaises, p. 92, t. 23. fig. 163 (1788) °. 
Cimex uncinatus, Gmel. Syst. Nat. i. 4, p. 2200 (1788) ’. 
Reduvius mutillarius, Fabr. Syst. Rhyng. p. 280 (1808) °. 
Pirates mutillarius, Herr.-Schaff. Wanz. Ins. viii. p. 61, t. 269. fig. 829 *. 
Callisphodrus mutillarius, Stal, Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Férh. 1866, p. 258 *°. 
Pirates maculipennis, Walk. Cat. Hemipt. Heteropt. vii. p. 101 (1873) " (nec Lepel.). 
Pirates concisus, Walk, loc. cit. p. 101”. 
Pirates indecisus, Walk. loc. cit. p. 104”. 
Pirates contiguus, Walk, loc. cit. p. 130”. 
? Rasahus sipolisii, Fallou, Le Nat. 1887, p. 68°°. 
Lestomerus varipes, Fallou, Rev. d’Ent. x. p. 10 (1891) *. 
Hab. Mexico®; Guaremata, Zapote, Guatemala city (Champion); Panama (Boucard), 
Tolé (Champion).—Sovuta AmeErica!’?, Colombia! 12, Venezuela 121°, Guiana ? § °, 
Amazons 11, Brazil#9 101115; Anvittes, Grenada >, 
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