218 HEMIPTERA-HETEROPTERA. 
We possess thirteen specimens of this species from within our limits. They vary a 
little in the shape of the large ochreous spot on the membrane, this being sometimes 
rounded in the females. The coloration of the legs appears to be much more constant 
than in R. diguttatus. In one of the Guatemalan specimens the anterior lobe of the 
pronotum is pitchy-red and the clavus is almost entirely pale. The outer portion of 
the corium is constantly dark. 
Dr. Bergroth, who has examined Fallou’s types, states (Rev. d’Ent. xi. pp. 262, 263) 
that R. sipolisii, Fall.*=R. hamatus (Fabr.), and Lestomerus varipes, Fall.= Pirates 
concisus, Walk.; the last-mentioned insect is not separable from &. hamatus. No 
locality was given by Walker for Pirates indecisus 18 and P. contiqguus'*. One of 
Stal’s specimens of R. hamatus, from Minas Geraes, Brazil, has been seen, with which 
our insect perfectly agrees. A male from Tolé is figured. 
5. Rasahus scutellaris. (Tab. XIII. fig. 9, 3.) 
Reduvius scutellaris, Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. p. 818 (1787) *; Ent. Syst. iv. p. 2077; Syst. Rhyng. 
p. 279°. 
Macrosandalus scutellaris, Stal, Hemipt. Fabr. i. p. 121 *. 
Rasahus scutellaris, Stal, Enum, Hemipt. ii. p. 107°. 
Pirates scutellaris, Walk., var.?, Cat. Hemipt. Heteropt. vii. p. 102 (9 nec ¢)°. 
Cimex scutatus, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. 4, p. 2196 (1788) ’. 
Pirates myrmecinus, Erichs. in Schomb. Reisen Brit.-Guiana, iii. p. 613 (1848) °. 
Hab. Guatremata (Mus. Brit.6); Panama, Bugaba, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). 
—Gurana §, Cayenne 1-57, 
Stal’s description of the Fabrician type of this species was made from a badly 
mutilated, discoloured example, with the antenne, legs, (corium ?), and abdomen missing. 
In the thirteen specimens obtained by myself in Chiriqui the head and pronotum have 
an eneous or greenish-zeneous lustre; the scutellar process is whitish at the tip; the 
elytra are black, with the inner margin of the corium at the base, an elongate mark 
on the posterior half of the clavus, a similar mark on the adjoining portion of the 
corium, a large transverse spot a little below the base of the membrane, a large 
suboval spot at its apex, and a short, slender, curved streak immediately beyond the 
apex of the corium, sordid white; the connexival segments are each broadly banded 
with whitish, and the bases of the intermediate and hind femora are similarly coloured. 
The spongy fossa on the underside of the apex of the anterior tibie is short, not nearly 
reaching the middle. ‘The third joint of the posterior tarsi is a little shorter than the 
other two united. These examples measure from 103-12 millim. in length, and 24-32 
in breadth: Stal gives length 15, breadth 8 millim. A specimen from Bugaba is figured. 
-* According to the description, this insect should have a small additional spot towards the middle of the 
elytra. 
