PAGASA, 299 
2. Pagasa fusca. (Tab. XVIII. figg. 17,174, 9.) 
Prostemma fuscum, Stein, Berl. ent. Zeitschr. 1857, p. 901. | 
Pagasa nitida, Stal, Enum. Hemipt. iii. p. 108 (%)”. 
Moderately elongate, clothed with Iong scattered sete, the abdomen, legs, and antenne also sparsely 
pilose; very shining, nigro-seneous, the scutellum black and opaque, the legs, antenne, and rostrum 
varying in colour from nigro-pieeous to testaceous. Head smooth, the eyes large, oval as seen from 
above, the ocelli very small; rostrum reaching the anterior coxa, joints 2 and 3 subequal in length, 
2 extending as far as the posterior margin of the eyes; antenne with joint 2 about half the length of 1, 
3-5 subequal in length, 3 a little thickened towards the apex. Pronotum smooth, longer than broad, 
with a fine straight transverse groove separating off the collar in front, the transverse sulcus before the 
base with a row of punctures, Scntellum with two small fovee on the disc. Abdomen transversely 
strigose, the basal segments punctured. LElytra irregularly obsoletely punctate and with rows of more 
distinct punctures along the sides of the prominent nervures. Anterior femora greatly incrassate, 
denticulate beneath. Anterior tibie in both sexes broadly and angularly dilated at the apex within. 
Macropterous form.—Corinm extending to beyond the middle of the abdomen; the membrane reaching the 
apex of the latter. 
Brachypterous form.—Corium not reaching the middie of the abdomen, sinuate on the outer side towards 
the apex; the membrane reduced to a narrow stripe or entirely absent. 
Length 44-nearly 7, breadth 13-22 millim. (¢ 2.) 
Hab. Nort America, Pennsylvania!, Wisconsin ?.— Mexico, Pinos Altos in Chihuahua 
(Buchan-Hepburn), Xucumanatlan, Amula, and Chilpancingo in Guerrero (A. JZ. 
Smith); GuaTemaLa, Quiché Mountains, ‘Totonicapam, Quezaltenango, Duefias, 
Capetillo (Champion); Panama, Pefia Blanca (Champion). 
Eleven specimens, three of which are macropterous. The above description is taken 
from the Central-American examples: they do not quite accord with the colour given 
by Stein, and Stai’s diagnosis of P. nitida is very brief*. Those from the Los Altos 
region of Guatemala (7000-10,500 feet) have the legs, antenne, and rostrum more or 
less infuscate. Berg (Hemipt. Argent., Suppl. p. 105) has recorded P. nitida from 
Buenos Ayres. Stal’s type has been examined. In the Stockholm Museum there is a 
larva of a Pagasa from Mexico (Sallé) possibly belonging here; but it has the anterior 
tibize widened from a little beyond the middle to the apex. 
3. Pagasa pallipes. (Tab. XVIII. figg. 18,184, ¢.) 
Pagasa pallipes, Stal, Enum. Hemipt. iii. p. 108 (forma macropt.) (?)*; Uhler, Bull. U.S, 
Geol. & Geogr. Surv. i. p. 325”. | 
3. Brachypterous form—Moderately elongate, very sparsely setose, the abdomen, legs, and antenne also 
sparsely pilose ; nigro-piceous, the head reddish in front, the pronotum with an eeneous lustre; shining, 
the scutellum and clavus opaque; the legs and rostrum testaceous, the posterior femora darker at the 
apex. Antenne as in P, fuses, but with joints 3-5 more elongate. Rostrum very long, reaching the 
intermediate coxe; joint 2 a little longer than 3, extending as far as the front of the anterior coxe. 
Eyes large. Pronotum as in P, fusca. Corium extending slightly beyond the first abdominal suture, 
rounded at the apex, the membrane reduced to a narrow strip along its inner apical margin. Anterior 
tibie broadly and abruptly widened on the inner side from about the middle to the apex. 
Length 61, breadth 27 millim. 
* Reuter (Rev. d’Ent. ix. p. 291) suggests that P. fusca, Stein, and P. nitida, Stal, are probably conspecific. 
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