APIOMERUS. 243 
Mexico, whence we have received a good series of specimens. The pronotum is rufous, 
and usually has one or two transverse black fasciz, the base being broadly flavous; the 
apex of the scutellum and the lower part of the propleura are broadly flavous; the 
corium is rufous, with the apical margin flavous ; the connexival segments are flavous, 
banded with black; the venter (the genital segments excepted) is flavous, with some 
spots at the sides and the sutures very narrowly black; the legs are rufous, banded 
with black, there being usually a conspicuous rufous ring near the apices of the 
intermediate and hind femora; the head, membrane (when closed), and antenne are 
black. The males have the apex of the terminal genital segment somewhat broadly 
produced in the centre, and armed on each side with a stout, horizontal, laterally 
extended, hooked spine; the claspers are long and stout, and strongly curved. The 
females have the outer apical angles of the first genital (terminal dorsal) segment 
deflexed at the sides, so as to form a triangular plate, and the last segment large and 
trapezoidal. 
18. Apiomerus pictipes. (Tab. XIV. figg. 28, 29, 3, vars.; 29a, 298, last 
genital segment, ¢; 30, 31, 2, vars.) 
Apiomerus pictipes, Herr.-Schaff. Wanz. Ins. viii. p. 75, t. 273. figg. 843 a-c (1848)'; Stal, Enum. 
Hemipt. ii. p. 98° (nec Walk.). 
Hab. Mexico (Mus. Brit.; coll. Siguoret and Sichel, in Mus. Vind. Ces.), Presidio 
de Mazatlan (Morrer), Venta de Peregrino and Dos Arroyos in Guerrero, Teapa in 
Tabasco (H. H. Smith), Orizaba, Cuesta de Misantla (MM. Trujillo), Atoyac (Schumann), 
Jalapa (Hoge), Valladolid and Temax in N. Yucatan (Gaumer), Tabi in Yucatan 
(F. D. G.); British Honpuras, R. Sarstoon (Blancaneaur); Guaremaua (ex Uhler), 
San Gerénimo and Tocoy in Vera Paz, El Reposo, Duefias (Champion); Nicaraeua, 
Chontales (Janson); Panama (Boucard), Bugaba, Volcan de Chiriqui, David, Tolé 
(Champion) ; CuntraL America '—CotomBia, Bogota ?, Cartagena ?. 
A very variable and abundant species within our limits. Some of the Yucatan 
specimens are only separable from A. flaviventris by their slightly smaller size and the 
broader black bands across the ventral segments. The genital spines and claspers are 
similarly formed in the males of each species; the females, however, have the sides 
of the first genital segment more narrowerly deflexed than in the corresponding sex of 
A. flaviventris. The large number of specimens received from Yucatan have the 
corium (except at the apex), and the pronotum more or less (except at the base), dark, 
and the ventral segments broadly banded with pale flavous. Most of the other Mexican 
examples, as well as those from Guatemala &c., resemble Herrich-Schaffer’s figure. The 
Panama specimens have the corium and the posterior lobe of the pronotum sordid 
ochreous. The ventral segments vary greatly in colour, but in the darkest specimens 
there are traces at the sides of transverse yellow lines. ‘The six males dissected show 
not the slightest variation in the form of the genital spines or claspers. 
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