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Of this species seven specimens were captured by myself in Chiriqui. It is easily 
recognizable by its large size and robust build, in connection with the dense shaggy 
pallid pubescence of the head, thorax, pleura, and sterna, and the unilobate last genital 
segment of the male. In the Central-American specimens the corium is brownish- 
ochreous, with the base and apex darker, and the membrane is paler towards the base. 
The males have a single, long, very stout, upwardly curved process at the apex of the 
terminal genital segment, this process being truncate and slightly emarginate at the 
tip; the claspers are long, and strongly curved beyond the middle. The females are 
without foliaceous appendages. A single ( 2 ) specimen, labelled “ Mexico,” belonging 
to the Vienna Museum (sent to me under the name of A. flavipennis), seems to belong 
here; the locality requires confirmation. 
6. Apiomerus binotatus, n.sp. (Tab. XIV. figg.11,¢; 11a, 114, last genital 
segment, 3.) . 
Moderately elongate, rather slender (¢), broader and more robust (@ ), shining, black ; the elytra each with 
a large subtriangular ochreous or reddish-ochreous patch on the corium, extending to the outer margin 
but not reaching the base or apex, the membrane nigro-fuscous; the anterior coxee and trochanters, a 
broad annulus on the posterior tibize before the middle, and usually the base of the anterior and inter- 
mediate femora beneath, flavescent; the connexival margins with a row of more or less distinct flavous 
spots, the venter sometimes with a submarginal row of similarly-coloured spots; the apical joint of the 
antenne ferruginous at the tip ; the body sparsely clothed with erect blackish hairs, and also with a very 
short fine decumbent greyish pubescence ; the legs somewhat thickly setose. Antenns with joints 1 and 2 
subequal in length, 3 more than twice the length of 2, 3and 4 subequal. Pronotum with the base feebly 
sinuate on each side near the hind angles. Elytra extending to far beyond the abdomen in both sexes. 
Legs rather slender, the femora slightly swollen before the tip. 
g. Terminal genital segment produced at the apex into a short truncated process, which is armed on each 
side with a moderately long, upwardly curved, divergent spine, the apex thickly clothed with long hairs ; 
the claspers stout, abruptly bent inwards a little beyond the middle; posterior tibia with a short brush 
of bristly hairs on the upper edge. 
Q. First genital segment truncate at the apex; posterior tibia compressed and sinuous before the apex, and 
with a dense brush of short bristly hairs on the upper edge beyond the middle; venter closely pilose. 
Length 133-163, breadth 33-54 millim. 
Hab. Panama, Bugaba, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). 
Found in plenty in Chiriqui. This species resembles A. edatus in colour, except that 
it has a flavous annulus on the posterior tibie ; but it is much smaller and less robust, 
with the genital structure very different in the male, and the female without foliaceous 
appendages. From the similarly-coloured variety of A. mestus, Stal, it may be separated 
by the more elongated apical joint of the antenne and the structure of the terminal 
genital segment of the male. In one specimen there is a small ochreous spot on each 
side of the anterior lobe of the pronotum. 
7. Apiomerus subpiceus. (Tab. XIV. figg.12, g; 12a, last genital segment, ¢ .) 
Apiomerus subpiceus, Stal, Stett. ent. Zeit. 1862, p. 4547; Enum. Hemipt. ii. p. 97°; Walk. Cat. 
Hemipt. Heteropt. viii. p. 66°. 
Hab. Mexico (Mus. Holm.12; Sichel, in Mus. Vind. Ces.; Sallé), Orizaba (Bilimek, 
