250 Van Duzcc: Catalogue of Ilcniiptcra [744- 



Banks, Cat. Neare. Hemip., p. 18, 1910. 



Localities: Texas(?), Ariz.('?) (Banks). (Brazil.) 



744. Spiiiiger arizonica Banks 

 Banks, Ent. News, xxi, p. 324, 1910. 

 Locality: Ariz. 



Subfamily PIRATINAE (Am. & Serv.) 

 Amyot and Serville, Hemip., pj). xlii, 321, 1843, Groupe Pirafides. 

 Stal, Berl. Ent. Zeit., iii, p. 328, 1859, Peiratida. 

 Dohrn, Cat. Hemip., p. 50, 1859, Piratidae. 

 Stal, Hemip. Afr., iii, pp. 44, 112, 1865, Piratida. 

 Stal, Of. Vet. Akad. Forh., xxiii, p. 250, 1866, Piratida. 

 Stal, Hemip. Fabr.. i, p. 120, 1868, Piratida. 



Stal, Of. Vet. Akad. Forh., xxix. No. 6, pp. 43, 46, 1872, Piratina. 

 Stal, Enum. Hemip., ii, pp. 66, 104, 1872; iv, pp. 4, 56, 1874, Piratina. 

 Uhler, Check List, p. 25, 1886, Piratina. 



Lethierry and Severin, Cat. Genl. Hemip., iii, p. 120, 1896, Piratidae. 

 Champion, Biol. Centr. Am., Heter., ii, j). 211, 1899, Piratinae. 

 Distant, Fauna Br. Ind., Ehyn., ii, p. 290, 1904. 

 Oshanin, Verz. Palae. Hemip., i, p. 534, 1908, Piratina. 

 Banks, Cat. Nearc. Hemip., p. 18, 1910, Piratini. 

 Oshanin, Kat. Palae. Hemip., p. 51, 1912, Piratinae. 

 Fracker, Proc. la. Acad. Sci., xix, p. 220, 1913, Piratinae. 



Genus Melanolestes Stal 

 Logotype picipe.9 H. S. 

 Stal, Of. Vet. Akad. Forh., xxiii, pp. 251, 259, 1866. 



Stal, Enum. Hemip., ii, pp. 105, 107, 1872; iv, p. 60, 1874 (as subgen. of 

 Provaneher, Pet. Faune Ent. Can., iii, p. 183, 1887. [Pirates). 



Champion, Biol. Centr. Am., Heter., ii, p. 213, 1899. 

 Fracker, Proc. La. Acad. Sci., xix, p. 220, 1913. . ■ 



745. Melanolestes picipes (H. S.) 

 Herrich-Schaeffer, Wanz. Ins., viii, p. 62, 1848, Pirates. 

 Stal, Of. Vet. Akad. Forh., xxiii, p. 259, 1866. 

 Stal, Enum. Hemip., ii, p. 107, 1872. 



Uhler, Hayden's Surv. Terr., Eept. for 1871, p. 421, 1872. 

 Walker, Cat. Heter., vii, p. 97, 1873, Pirates. 

 Uhler, Bui. U. S. Geol. Geog. Surv., i, p. 330, 1876. 

 Uhler, Wheeler's Eept. Chief Eng. for 1877, p. 1330. 

 Uhler, Proc. Bost. Soe. Nat. Hist., xix, p. 424, 1878. 

 Uhler, Stand. Nat. Hist., ii, p. 281, 1884. 

 Provaneher, Pet. Faune Ent. Can., iii, p. 183, 1887. 

 Lintner, 4th Eept. N. Y. St. Ent., p. 109, 1888. 

 Uhler, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., Ser. 2, iv, p. 284, 1894. 

 Bueno and Brimley, Ent. News, xvii, p. 437, 1907. 

 Bueno, Jl. N. Y. Ent. Soc, xvi, p. 235, 1908. 

 Smith, Cat. Ins. N. J., edn. 3, p. 154, 1910. 

 Fracker, Proc. Ta. Acad. Sci., xix, p. 233, 1913. 

 Barber, Bui. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., xxxiii, p. 505, 1914. 



pnnf/ens Leconte, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., vii, p. 404, 1856, Beduvius. 

 Localities: Quebec, Me., Mass., N. Y., N. J., Pa., Del., Va., N. C, 

 Ga., Ala., Fla., La., TIL, Texas, N. Mex., Okl., Calif. 





