550 



FAMILY XIX. — REDUVIID>E. 



with front lobe much shorter than hind one, the latter with median 

 longitudinal groove, a shorter sinuous subbasal one each side and a deep 



fovea at middle. Abdomen gradually 

 widened to middle, outer apical angles 

 of the segments dilated. Ventrals 

 1 — -3 carinate at middle. Length 18 

 mm. (Fig. 132). 



Described from Mexico. A 

 single specimen, taken by Frank- 

 lin Sherman at Raleigh, N. Car., 

 June 28, 1902, is in the U. S. Na- 

 tional Museum. 



VI. Cncocephalus Klug., 

 1830, 2. 



Elongate-oval species having 

 Fig. 132. schumanma mexicana the head porrect, its front por- 



Champ., male X 214. Fig. 133. Nar- .• u 1 • j • 1 4- • i ~ 



vesus carolinensis Stal, female X 3. tlOIl SUbcylindriCal, twice as long 



.After Champion). &g hind ^ ^ j^^ gubglo _ 



bose, suddenly constricted into a short neck; eyes large, very 

 prominent, subcontiguous beneath ; ocelli large, placed on the 

 sides of a prominent bilobed tubercle ; front lobe of pronotum 

 much narrower than hind one, its sides sinuate ; apex of scutel- 

 lum ending in a cylindrical horizontal spine ; elytra entire, 

 reaching tip of abdomen ; connexivum narrowly or not at all 

 exposed ; front femora much swollen, armed beneath on inner 

 edge with a row of short spines or tubercles ; front tibise slight- 

 ly longer than femora, beset with short fine bristles ; abdomen 

 with a sharp median carina. Three species are known from 

 North America, two occurring in our territory. 



KEY TO EASTERN SPECIES OF OXCOCEPHALUS. 



a. Head and front femora in great part black; side margins of pro- 

 notum with front and hind angles each ending in a small conical 

 tubercle, and with a third small tubercle near middle. 



525. GENICULATUS. 



aa. Head and front femora pale, the apical third of latter sometimes 



tinged with fuscous; side margins of pronotum without tubercles, 



the hind angles rounded. 526. apiculatus. 



525 (728). Oncocephalus oeniculatus Stal, 1872, 123. 



Elongate-oval. Hind lobe and under part of front lobe of head, 

 disk of hind lobe of pronotum, scutellum, a large spot on discoidal cell 

 of elytra and a dash behind it, black; antenna? fuscous, the basal joint 



