240 HEMIPTERA-HETEROPTERA. 
Found in plenty at Purula. The type (now before me) was probably from the 
Atlantic slope, from Vera Cruz or Tabasco. A rather small species, the males 
comparatively narrow, with the elytra extending far beyond the abdomen in both 
sexes. The corium usually has an irregular narrow transverse fascia towards the apex, 
and one or two of the inner nervures, ochreous, this colour sometimes extending over 
the greater portion, leaving the base and apex only dark. The basal margin of the 
pronotum is sometimes flavescent. ‘The posterior tibize are in some specimens broadly 
ferruginous or testaceous in the middle. The apical joint of the antenne is shorter 
than the third, and ferruginous at the tip. The males have two moderately long, 
divergent, upwardly-curved spines at the apex of the terminal genital segment; the 
claspers are long, strongly curved, and rather stout. 
12. Apiomerus venosus. (Tab. XIV. figg. 21, 29; 22, 22a, last genital seg- 
ment, ¢.) 
Apiomerus venosus, Stal, Enum. Hemipt. ii. p. 97°. 
Hab. Mexico (Sallé, in Mus. Holm.+), Cuernavaca in Morelos (Bilimek, in Mus. Vind. 
Ces.; H. H. Smith), Chilpancingo and Soledad in Guerrero (H. H. Smith). 
Eight specimens have been seen of this very distinct species, four of which were 
obtained by Mr. Smith. It is black, with the membrane in great part clear hyaline, 
its base only being infuscate ; the nervures of the corium are either entirely pale or 
pale at the apex only. The antenne are ferruginous or fusco-ferruginous, with the 
third-and fourth joints subequal in length. The males have two long, widely separated, 
divergent, upwardly-curved spines at the apex of the terminal genital segment, the apical 
margin of this segment being thickly clothed with long hairs in the centre, and armed 
with a short tooth on each side opposite the points of insertion of the claspers; the 
latter are moderately long, rather stout, and abruptly bent inwards beyond the middle. 
13. Apiomerus rubrocinctus. (Tab. XIV. fig. 23, var. nigripes, 3.) 
Apiomerus rubrocinctus, Herr.-Schaff. Wanz. Ins. viii. p. 76, t. 274. fig. 845 (1848)'; Stal, Enum. 
Hemipt. ii. p. 98°. 
Apiomerus guttaio-venosus, Stal, Rio Jan. Hemipt. p. 73°. 
_ Apiomerus geniculatus, Stal, loc. cit. p. 73 *. 
Apiomerus nigripes, Stal, loc. cit. p. 73°; Stett. ent. Zeit. 1862, p. 455 °. 
Apiomerus rufipes, Stal, Rio Jan. Hemipt. p. 73”. 
Hab. t Mexico (coll. Signoret®, in Mus. Vind. Ces.).—Brazit, Rio Janeiro !~7. 
‘The variety nigripes of this very variable Brazilian insect has been recorded by Stal 
from ‘‘ Mexico,” on the authority of a male specimen so labelled in the Signoret 
collection. This locality is almost certainly incorrect, like that of many other insects 
in the same collection. The present species differs from all the Central-American 
