APIOMERUS. 230 
Apiomerus pilipes, Stal, Enum. Hemipt. ii. p. 96" (part.). 
3. Apiomerus hemorrhoidalis, Stal, in litt. (in Mus. Holm.)’. 
Hab. CotompBia’; Gurana, Surinam 56, Cayenne !~4+7; Amazons 8, Paré>; Braziu* 5, 
Var. The corium with a more or less distinct triangular sanguineous patch in the middle in the female, the 
patch larger and more extended in the male; the posterior lobe of the pronotum piceous in the male. 
Hab. Nicaracua, Chontales (Janson: 2); Costa Rica, Rio Sucio (Rogers: 2); 
Panama, Colon (Boucard: 3 9 )—AMazons. 
The five specimens from Central America referred to A. hirtipes agree very well with 
the figures of Stoll and Hahn, except in colour: the four females have a triangular 
sanguineous patch in the middle of the corium towards the apex, this being less 
distinct in the Panama example; the male, which is very much smaller, has the 
posterior lobe of the pronotum piceous and the light-coloured patch on the corium 
much more extended. The females have the foliaceous appendages moderately large 
and suborbicular in shape, with the base narrow. The males have the sixth dorsal 
segment dilated and produced, with the apex testaceous or sanguineous and somewhat 
rounded ; the two spines at the apex of the terminal genital segment are long, widely 
divergent, and curved upwards, and hooked at the tip; and the claspers are stout, and 
abruptly bent inwards at the middle. Stl sinks A. hirtipes (Fabr.) as synonymous with 
A. pilipes (Fabr.); but the specimens sent me by Dr. Aurivillius from the Stockholm 
Museum under these names (apparently in Stal’s handwriting) seem to me to belong to 
different species, the female of A. pilipes having the foliaceous appendages broader at 
the base, as well as differing in the colour of the elytra, &c. Stal, moreover, treats the 
A. hirtipes of Fabricius and the A. hirtipes of Hahn as different species, renaming 
the latter dA. nigrilobus, but in this I cannot follow him. The specimen labelled 
A. hemorrhoidalis in the Stockholm Museum, a male from the Amazons, has the 
intermediate and hind legs in great part, the anterior knees, and the abdomen 
testaceous, the latter with the apex bright sanguineous. 
3. Apiomerus elatus. (Tab. XIV. figg. 3,6; 3a, 34, last genital segment, ¢ ; 
4, apex of the abdomen from above, 2 .) 
Apiomerus elatus, Stal, Stett. ent. Zeit. 1862, p. 454’; Enum. Hemipt. ii. p. 96’; Walk. Cat. 
Hemipt. Heteropt. viii. p. 67 (part.) *. 
Hab. Mexico (Mus. Holm.1?; coll. Signoret}, in Mus. Vind. Ces.; Mus. Brit.), 
Orizaba (Bilimek, in Mus. Vind. Ces.), Oaxaca (Mus. Brit.*), Atoyac in Vera Cruz 
(Schumann), ‘leapa in Tabasco (4. H. Smith), Chiapas (WM. Trujillo) ; Guatemaa (Mus. 
Brit.), Tamahu, Chacoj, Panima, Sabo, and Cubilguitz in Vera Paz (Champion) ; 
Honpvuras (Mus. Holm.?; Mus. Brit.? ; Wittkugel, in Mus. Vind. Ces.). 
A large and robust species, with a large subtriangular sanguineous, orange, or pale 
ochreous patch on each elytron, extending completely across the corium, but not 
reaching its base or apex. The anterior and intermediate femora are sometimes 
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