318 HEMIPTERA-HETEROPTERA. 
Teapa (H. H. Smith); Guaremata, Senahu and San Gerdnimo in Vera Paz, Cerro 
Zunil, Las Mercedes, Duefias (Champion); Nicaragua, Chontales (Janson). 
Not rare in Guatemala. Varies in colour, as noted by Dr. Reuter, the head, 
pronotum, scutellum, and body being sometimes piceous, and the cuneus slightly 
infuscate. The legs, however, are constantly pale. The embolium is rather narrow 
throughout, it being only about one-third of the width of the corium at the apex. 
From the similarly-coloured species of Cardiastethus it may be distinguished by the 
less deeply emarginate base of the pronotum. ‘The Mexican types have been seen. 
3. Asthenidea picta. 
Lasiochilus pictus, Uhler, P. Z. 8. 1894, pp. 156, 157, 200°. 
Hab. Mexico, Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith).—Antiues, St. Vincent and Grenada }. 
Two specimens. In this insect the elytra are dull and very finely pubescent, ochreous 
in colour, with the cuneus in great part fuscous or black; the apical half of the 
scutellum is opaque; the orifice of the metastethium is short and curved forward ; 
the pronotum is piceous (as in some of the Antillean examples) and margined at the 
sides; and the legs are pale. 
4, Asthenidea bifasciata, n. sp. (J'ab. XIX. figg. 13, 134.) 
Ovate, shining, the apex of the scutellum opaque, finely pubescent and also clothed with long, scattered, erect 
hairs; testaceous or rufo-testaceous, the scutellum and the meso- and metasternum piceous or fuscous, 
the head sometimes slightly infuscate, the eyes black; the elytra ochreous, with a broad irregular 
transverse fascia across thé middle of the coriaceous portion, and the cuneus, except along the outer 
margin, fuscous, the membrane slightly infuscate; the antenne, legs, and rostrum testaceous, the basal 
half of the latter piceous. Head smooth, as broad as long, the eyes rather small; rostrum reaching the 
intermediate coxe ; antenne with joints 1 and 2 rather slender, 2 thickened at the apex, three times as 
long as 1, and longer than 3 or 4, the latter very slender, joints 2~4 shortly pilose and also with long 
projecting hairs. Pronotum moderately narrowed anteriorly, the sides obsoletely margined towards the 
apex, the anterior angles rounded and deflexed; smooth, the posterior lobe depressed on the disc in front 
and faintly transversely rugulose. Scutellum transversely rugose behind. Elytra with the clavus and 
inner half of the corium closely, finely punctate; the embolium narrow, at the apex less than one-third 
_ the width of the corium. Orifice of the metastethium moderately long, curved forward externally. 
Length 2} millim. (9.) 
‘Hab. Panama, David and Tolé in Chiriqui (Champion). 
Four specimens. ‘This insect closely resembles Dr. Reuter’s figure of Calliodis 
picturata (Stal), from Brazil, described from a single mutilated example, which he 
places amongst the “species et genera sedis incerte ” at the end of the Anthocorine in 
his Monograph. It differs, however, in being less elongate, the pronotum is more deeply 
emarginate at the base, the rostrum is shorter (extending to the posterior cox in 
Calliodis), and the hind angles of the pronotum are not broadly infuscate. 
