234 HEMIPTERA-HETEROPTERA. 
1. Apiomerus vexillarius, n. sp. (Tab. XIV. figg. 1, 2; la, one of the 
appendages, 2; 16, part of posterior leg, 9; 2, sixth dorsal segment, ¢; 2a, last 
genital segment, ¢ ; 26, ditto, from within ; 2 ¢, ditto, in profile.) 
Broad, robust, shining, black, the corium, except at the base narrowly, brownish-ochreous or flavescent, the 
membrane smoky hyaline, the antenne ferruginous, with the basal one or two joints sometimes infuscate, 
the connexival segments bordered with ochreous in front, the legs entirely black or with the apices of the 
femora and the tibie in part rufous; the dilated portion of the sixth dorsal segment in the male and the 
foliaceous appendages of the female bright sanguineous in life (often discoloured in dried specimens), 
the narrow basal portions of the latter flavescent ; the body sparsely clothed with erect black sete, the 
elevated portions of the anterior lobe of the pronotum, the entire posterior lobe, the base of the scutellum, 
and also that of the corium, the pleura and sterna, densely, and the head more sparsely, clothed with 
short cinereous or fulvo-cinereous decumbent pubescence, the other parts of the body also finely 
pubescent, the connexival margins with a dense fringe of short black hairs; the legs densely setose. 
Antenne with joints 1 and 2 equal in length, 3 nearly twice as long as 2,3 and 4 equal. Pronotum 
with the base feebly sinuate on each side near the hind angles. Elytra longer than the abdomen in 
both sexes, the connexival margins sinuate. Legs moderately stout, the intermediate and hind femora 
thickened before the tip. 
3. Terminal genital segment with two long, upwardly curved, divergent spines; the claspers moderately 
long, abruptly bent inwards at the middle; sixth dorsal segment produced posteriorly into a broad, 
laterally dilated, foliaceous plate, which is emarginate in the centre at the apex ; posterior tibive with a 
short brush of hairs on the upper edge beyond the middle. 
2. First genital segment with a very large, elongate, broadly piriform, foliaceous appendage on each side; 
venter densely pilose; posterior tibize compressed and sinuous before the apex, and with a long dense 
brush of short bristly hairs on the upper edge beyond the middle. 
Length 21-26, breadth 74-104 millim. 
Hab. Panama, Bugaba, Volcan de Chiriqui, Tolé (Champion). 
Found in abundance by myself in forest-clearings in Chiriqui, in 1882-83. This 
large and conspicuous species is closely allied to the South-American A. pilipes (Fabr.), 
differing from it in having the foliaceous appendages of the females much more 
elongate and about twice as large as in the corresponding sex of that insect, a specimen 
of which has been communicated by Dr. Aurivillius for comparison. In the males 
these appendages are shorter and completely connate, forming a broad, laterally dilated 
plate round the apex of the abdomen. The specimens are quite constant in colour 
(the variation noticed being merely due to discoloration after death or to immaturity), 
except that the legs are sometimes partly rufous. The present species superficially 
resembles A. lanipes, which, also, is quite constant in colour, so far as the Central- 
American examples are concerned. Upwards of 100 examples of A. verillarius have 
been examined. 
2. Apiomerus hirtipes. (Tab. XIV. figg. 9, 9, var.; 9a, one of the appen- 
dages of the 2 ; 10, last genital segment, ¢ .) 
Reduvius hirtipes, Fabr. Mant. Ins. 1. p. 311 (1787)*; Ent. Syst. iv. p. 2017; Syst. Rhyng. p. 274°. 
Apiomerus hirtipes, Hahn, Wanz. Ins. 1. p. 29, t. 5. f. 19 (go) (1831)*; Burm. Handb. der Ent. i. 
p. 281°. 
La Punaise noire 4 pattes raboteuses, Stoll, Représ. des Punaises, p. 57, t. 18. fig. 90 (¢) (1788) °. 
