RICOLLA.—REPIPTA. 267 
Hab. Mexico!3 (Sallé; Sichel, in Mus. Vind. Cas.), San Lorenzo near Cordova 
(M. Trujillo), Orizaba (Bilimek, in Mus. Vind. Ces.), Atoyac in Vera Cruz (Schumann, 
 H. H. Smith), Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith); Guaremauta, San Juan, Tamahu, 
\Teleman, Chacoj, Sabo, Panima, and San Gerdnimo in Vera Paz (Champion) ; 
Nicaragua, Chontales (Janson); Costa Rica, Talamanca (Mus. Holm.), Caché (Rogers) ; 
PanaMA, Bugaba, Volcan de Chiriqui, David (Champion). 
A common insect in Central America, from Vera Cruz southwards, though apparently 
confined to the Atlantic slope in Mexico and Guatemala. The males have a long, 
upwardly curved spine at the apex of the terminal genital segment. The third joint of 
the antenne is slender in both sexes. A specimen from Teapa is figured. 
2. Ricolla pallidinervis. 
Ricolla pallidinervis, Stal, Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Forh. 1859, p. 367:; Enum. Hemipt. ii. p. 78?. 
Hab. Panama, near the city (J. J. Walker). Vunezvea, Caracas 1, 
A single female specimen of this species has been found at Panama by Mr. Walker. 
‘It is extremely like R. stmillima, but differs from it in having a short conical tubercle 
at each of the anterior angles of the pronotum ; the marginal spines of the abdomen 
are also longer than in the females of that insect. 
REPIPTA. 
Repipta, Stal, Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Férh. xvi. p. 369 (1859), xxiii. p. 298 (1866); Hemipt. Fabr. i. 
p. 108, nota; Enum. Hemipt. 11. pp. 69, 80. 
Seven species from Central America are here referred to this American genus, one 
of them (R. taurus, Fabr.) being a well-known insect. #. miniata differs from the 
others in having the sides and apex of the abdomen spinose, but it seems better placed 
here than in Debilia or Rocconota. Some of these insects are superficially very like 
Zelus, but they may be easily separated therefrom by the comparatively short second 
joint of the rostrum. The third joint of the antenne is, in most of the species, more or 
less thickened in the males, this being especially noticeable in BR. fuscipes. | 
a. Abdominal segments unarmed at the sides. 
a’. Body moderately elongate, not very slender, not uniformly coloured 
above. 
a’, Head with two short spines or tubercles. 
a’, Legs unicolorous, black; corium, clavus, and rostrum black or 
blackish: size large . . 2. «© «© s+ ee . fuscipes, Stal. 
b’, Legs sanguineous, annulated with black ; corium and clavus partly 
fuscous : size small nigronotata, Stal. 
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