HENESTARIDiE. 229 



Sjjecies 1. — Henestaris laticeps. 



Heterogaster laticeps, Curt. B. E. p. & fig. 597 (1836). 



Henestaris Spinol^, J. Costa, Corr. Zool. i, 136, pi. 11 (1839) ; Ann. 



Soc. Ent. Erance, x, .304 (1841); Am. et Sew. 



Hem. 250, 1, (1843) ; Tieb. Europ. Hem. 174 



(1861). 



— Genei, Spin. Hem. 230, 1 (1840). 



— HisPANA, Baiiib. F. And. ii, sp. 145 (1842). 



Ocbreous, dull, more or less clouded witli brown, and "witli very fine, 

 short, yellow hairs. 



Head oclireous, black-punctured ; with a black line round the base 

 of the peduncle of the eyes, and on the peduncle 2 black spots ; Face ; 

 central lobe with a narrow black margin. Antennee ochreous-brown, 

 with fine short hairs, and indistinct, piceous spots ; 1st joint darker, 

 black beneath ; 4th pitchy-black. Eijes brown. Ocelli red. Bos- 

 trum piceous, 1st joint paler. 



Thorax. — Pronotum ochreous, with distinct, round, black punc- 

 tures ; behind the anterior margin 2 black fovese ; the sides, a 

 central line, the hinder angles, and a spot on the middle of the 

 posterior margin, clear. Scutellum ochreous, with strong black punc- 

 tures, except on the centre and posterior convezity, which are clear 

 and smooth. Elytra ; Clavus with 4 rows of black punctures, and 

 a black, punctured spot towards the end ; Corium with black punctures 

 in rows, ochreous on the inner side and base of anterior margin, 

 the rest of the disk (except a long, raised ochreous spot near the 

 posterior margin) piceous ; posterior margin piceous or black, 

 except at the inner angle ; JSIembrane transparent ; nerves (except 

 the base of the 4th and 5th) dusky, the space betwen them, 

 especially between the 2nd and 3rd, with an opaque dotted shade ; 

 inner basal angle clear. Sternum ochreous-brown, with fine, black 

 punctures ; the centre black. Legs ochreous ; tlmjlis nearly covered 

 with large confluent, black spots ; tarsi piceous ; base of the 1st and 

 2nd joints ochreous. 



Abdomen above, black ; Connexivum ochreous-brown, paler at 

 the junction of the segments, the edge brown. Underside ochreous- 

 brown, the 2 basal segments in the middle black ; the margins of all 



