276 HEMIPTERA-HETEROPTERA. 
down the middle of the anterior lobe and with two converging carine on the disc of the posterior lobe 
extending from the spines forwards, the anterior angles obtuse. 
Length 12-153 millim. (3 9.) 
Hab. Muxico, Atoyac in Vera Cruz (H. H. Smith), Temax in N. Yucatan (Gaumer) ; 
PanaMA, Bugaba (Champion). 
Three females and one male. The spines on the upper part of the head are long 
and curved forwards, those on the gene being short. The outer apical angles of the 
fifth connexival segment are very acutely produced in the Atoyac specimens, forming a 
sharp spine. A male from Atoyac is figured. 
LINDUS. 
Lindus, Stal, Rio Jan. Hemipt. ii. p. 61 (1862); Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Férh. xvi. p. 369 (1859); Enum. 
Hemipt. ii. pp. 69, 79. 
This genus is based upon a single species, L. sahlbergi, Stal, from Brazil. The 
second species now added, also known from a single female specimen only, is very like 
it, agreeing perfectly in the structure of the head, pronotum, &c.; but has the abdomen 
longer and less dilated posteriorly, with the sixth connexival segment, as well as 1-5, 
armed with a long spine at the outer apical angles. Both insects have a small discoidal 
area on the corium adjoining the base of the membrane, but in ZL. ericius the two 
areas of the membrane are unequal in size. The type of L. sahlbergi has been kindly 
communicated by Dr. Aurivillius. 
1. Lindus ericius, sp.n. (Tab. XVI. fig. 26, 9.) 
2. Elongate, sparsely pubescent and also clothed with long, fine, scattered hairs; above fuscous, the head in 
front and at the base, the pronotum with a space along the middle of the disc, the tips of the spines, and 
the basal angles, and the apex of the scutellum, stramineous ; the elytra with the nervures pale, the 
membrane subhyaline, with a spot opposite the apex of the corium and another on the median nervure 
fuscous ; the abdomen stramineous, the connexival segments banded or spotted with nigro-fuscous ; beneath 
stramineous, the apical half of the venter in great part nigro-fuscous; the antenns stramineous, with the 
two basal joints annulated with fuscous ; the legs stramineous, annulated with fuscous and black. Head 
much shorter than the pronotum, strongly narrowed behind, armed above with two long erect spines before 
the eyes, which are large and prominent; antenne longer than the body, slender, joint 1 more than twice 
as long as 2, 2 shorter than 4. Pronotum hexagonal, the posterior lobe much widened laterally towards 
the base, with two anteriorly converging carine on the disc connecting the two lobes; the posterior lobe 
armed with two long, backwardly directed spines on the disc and a long, outwardly directed spine at each - 
of the lateral angles. Scutellum with an obtuse prominence at the apex. Elytra extending far beyond 
the abdomen, the inner area of the membrane a little longer than the outer one. Abdomen widening to 
the apex of the fifth segment, and narrowing thence to the apex, the apex broadly subtruncate, the outer 
apical angles of the connexival segments 1-6 each armed with a long spine. Legs long and hairy; the 
femora somewhat thickly pilose at the apex, the anterior pair strongly incrassate, the latter, as well as 
the anterior tibie, closely ciliate within. 
Length (to apex of the elytra) 133, breadth (of the fifth segment of the abdomen) 34 millim. 
Hab. Panama, Bugaba (Champion). 
One specimen. 
