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INSECTS OF THE NORTHERN PARTS OF BRITISH AMERICA. 



COMPILED BY REV. C. J. S. RETHUNE, M. A. 



From Kirby's Fauna B or eali- Americana : Inseda. 



(Continued from Vol. x., p. 139.) 



FAMILY ACANTHIAD.E. 



389. Aradus tuberculifer Kirby. — Plate vi., fig. 5. Length of 

 body 3^4 lines. A single specimen taken with preceding. 



[279.] Body dull black, very flat. Head with the nose prominent 

 and obtuse, and the front armed with a sharp tooth on each side; antennae 

 black with the second joint rufous all but the tip ; the last joint white at 

 the tip ; prothorax with a short anterior truncated lobe, widest in the 

 middle where the sides form a rounded angle ; emarginate posteriorly ; 

 edge very minutely serrulate ; six longitudinal ridges occupy the disk of 

 the thorax, the two external ones are abbreviated and rather obtuse ; scu- 

 tellum with a reflexed margin, and bearing on its disk a large subhemi- 

 spherical tubercle ; hernelytra reticulated with cinereous, especially the 

 membrane ; abdomen with a broad margin, and the last segment bilobed 

 with incurved lobes. 



This species appears to be related to A. depressus and elevaius Fabr., 

 and to A. quadrilineatus of Say. 



390. Aradus affinis Kirby. — Length of body 2^2 lines. Several 

 taken with preceding. 



Extremely similar to A. tuberculifer, but much smaller. Antennae entirely 

 black ; prothorax not extended anteriorly, so as to form a lobe ; lateral 

 abbreviated ridge more obtuse, resembling a tubercle ; margin of the 

 abdomen with a white point at the apex of each segment ; anus not lobed. 



FAMILY REDUVIADjE. 



[280.] 391. Reduviolus inscriptus Kirby. — Plate vi., fig. 7. — 

 Length of body 3 lines. A single specimen taken with preceding. 



Body of a pale or yellowish white, lineari-oblong, widest posteriorly. 

 Antennae shorter than the body, rufous, three last joints very slender ; 



