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flavescent beneath. The females have the foliaceous appendages moderately large 
and rounded, with the base narrow. The males have the sixth dorsal segment dilated 
and produced, with the apex more or less testaceous and subtruncate; the two spines 
at the apex of the last genital segment are long, widely divergent, curved upwards, and 
feebly hooked at the tip; and the claspers are long and slender, and abruptly bent 
inwards at the middle. A. elatus is very closely allied to A. hirtipes, but it is more 
shining and more sparsely pilose; the foliaceous appendages of the female are smaller, 
and the claspers of the male are more slender. The thirty-six specimens seen only 
vary in the colour of the elytral patch, this fading from sanguineous to pale ochreous. 
A. repletus, Uhler (?= occidentalis, Glover), from California, is a somewhat similarly 
coloured form, and perhaps a variety of the present species. 
4. Apiomerus ochropterus. (Tab. XIV. figg.7,¢; 74, last genital segment, 
from within ; 8, one of the appendages of the @ .) 
Apiomerus flavipennis, Stal. Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Férh. 1855, p. 188 (2)? (nec Herr.-Schiff.). 
Apiomerus ochropterus, Stal, op. cit. 1866, p. 249 (2)? 
Apiomerus proteus, Stal, Enum. Hemipt. ii. p. 96°. 
Hab. {Mexico (coll. Signoret, in Mus. Vind. Ces.: 3 2 ).—Cotomsta! 2, Bogota 3, 
Antioquia? (Mus. Holm.). 
There are two specimens of this species in the Vienna Museum labelled as from 
“Mexico”; this locality is almost certainly incorrect, but as the species may occur in 
the State of Panama, it is included here. A. ochropterus, the type of which is before 
me, is nearly allied to A. elatus, but it is less elongate (appearing relatively broader), 
the corium is pale ochreous, with the extreme base only darker, the membrane is 
quite pale and subhyaline, the antenne are ferruginous, the head is comparatively short, 
and the propleura are thickly clothed with pale shaggy pubescence; the female, more- 
over, has much larger foliaceous appendages, and the male has the sixth dorsal segment 
more broadly extended round the apex of the abdomen. In two of the three specimens 
seen the posterior tibie, except at the apex, and the apices of the posterior femora are 
rufous or testaceous. The males have the two spines at the apex of the terminal 
segment a little shorter than in the same sex of A. elatus or A. hirtipes; the claspers 
are more slender than in A. hirtipes, and shorter than in A. elatus. 
5. Apiomerus lanipes. (‘Tab. XIV. figg. 13,9; 14, 14a, last genital seg- 
ment, ¢ .) 
Reduvius lanipes, Fabr. Syst. Rhyng. p. 274 (1803) *; Lepel. et Serv. Encycl. Méthod. x. p. 276’. 
Aptomerus lanipes, Amy. et Serv. Hist. Nat. Ins. Hémipt. p. 352°; St4l, Hemipt. Fabr. i. p. 117°; 
Enum. Hemipt. ii. p. 97°. 
Apiomerus lanius, Stal, Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Forh. 1855, p. 188°; op. cit. 1866, p. 249 (f 2)”. 
Hab. ? Mexico (Mus. Vind. Ces.); Panama, Pefia Blanca in Chiriqui (Champion).— 
SourH AMERIca! 4, Colombia ®, Guiana? 35, Brazil 5 6, 
