ZELUS. 255 
Z. modestus and Z. prolixus, Stal. It is not quite certain that the male belongs to the 
same species; it has both lobes of the pronotum clothed with very short erect blackish 
hairs, the anterior angles of the pronotum not prominent, and the sixth ventral segment 
clothed with a patch of white tomentum on each side. 
4. Zelus pictipes, n. sp. (Tab. XV. fig. 14, 3.) 
Elongate, narrow, slender, dull, clothed with fine pallid pubescence and scattered erect hairs ; stramineous, 
the head more or less blackish above, with a pale stripe on each side anteriorly and a pale median line 
posteriorly ; the anterior lobe of the pronotum nigro-fuscous or black, with six small pale spots (four in a 
transverse row behind and two on the disc in front of these), the posterior lobe fusco-testaceous, with the 
sides and basal margin pale; the scutellum and elytra fuscous or fusco-testaceous, the nervures and outer 
margin of the corium stramineous; the dorsal surface of the abdomen, the connexival margins excepted, 
infuscate or sanguineous; the femora and tibiw speckled or annulated throughout with black; the 
antennz with joints 1 and 2 fuscous and the rest testaceous, sometimes entirely testaceous. Head about 
as long as the pronotum, very gradually narrowing behind the eyes, the post-ocular portion longer than 
the ante-ocular portion ; antennz very slender, as long as the body, joint 1 longer than the head and 
pronotum united. Pronotum longer than broad, depressed along the middle, the anterior lobe with a 
median sulcus, the hind angles tumid and rounded, the base feebly emarginate in the centre and with a 
narrow reflexed margin, the anterior angles tuberculiform. Elytra reaching beyond the apex of the 
abdomen, the latter narrow. Legs long and slender, sparsely pilose, the anterior femora as long as the 
hind femora. 
g. Third antennal joint thickened to beyond the middle, and the terminal genital segment armed at the apex 
with a long, upwardly curved, hooked spine. 
Length 11-13, breadth 2-23 millim. (¢ 9.) 
Hab. Mexico, Ciudad and Milpas in Durango, Presidio de Mazatlan (orrer), 
Hacienda de la Imagen, Xucumanatlan, and Chilpancingo in Guerrero (H. H. Smith) ; 
GuaTEMALA, San Gerénimo (Champion). 
Ten examples, one only of which is from Guatemala. This insect is closely allied to 
Z. cervicalis, St&l, but it has the legs annulated with black (as in the species of the 
genus Milyas), the legs less elongate, &c. The second joint of the rostrum is elongate. 
The head is very little narrowed towards the base, with the post-ocular portion longer 
than usual. The six small spots on the anterior lobe of the pronotum are glabrous and 
well-defined. The larva (from Milpas) has a long black spine at the sides of each of 
the abdominal segments. 7 | — 
5. Zelus cervicalis. 
Zelus cervicalis, Stal, Enum. Hemipt. ii. p. 90’; Uhler, Bull. U.S. Geol. & Geogr. Surv. i. 
p: 827’. 
Hab. Norra America, Carolina}, Texas 2, Florida 2, California Mexico 1, 
Included in our fauna on Stal’s authority. One of his specimens from Carolina has 
been seen. 
