546 llEDUVINA. 



5th a trifle shorter thau the -ith ; 4th and Stii petiolate. Eijes large, 

 oval, promiueut. OccUi small, distant, inserted close to the base of 

 the liead. Eostrum stout, hairy, enrved, reaching to the 1st pair of 

 coxae ; 1st joint very thick, as wide at the base as the end of the face ; 

 2nd and 3rd in length subequal, 2nd gradually widened, 3rd gradu- 

 ally narrowed to the end ; 4th short, aculeate. 



Thorax. — Pronotum long-trapezoidal, constricted beyond the 

 middle ; anterior margin short, straight, incrassated in the middle ; 

 anterior angles much rounded ; side margins curved under, the post- 

 medial incision slight ; posterior margin straight, the angles obtuse. 

 Scutellum rather small, somewhat depressed at the base. Elytra (in 

 our species) not reaching beyond the 1st abdominal segment ; Olavus 

 wanting ; Corium shorter on the inner than on the outer margin ; 

 posterior margin straight ; Ilemhrane rudimentary, appearing merely 

 as a border to the corium. Sternum; Prosternum produced round 

 the cox», and into a short point between them, the middle with a 

 deep narrow channel ; Ileso- and Metasternum depressed in front, 

 raised posteriorly, and with a short, slight keel. Legs strong ; 

 thighs : 1st and 2nd pairs stoutest (the 1st the stouter of the two), 

 fusiform, 1st pair beneath, on the 2nd -J-, flattened, with 2 rows of 

 strong, spinose teeth ; 3rd pair subclavate, compressed ; tihice thick- 

 ened to the apex ; 1st pair stoutest, flattened, and angularly widened 

 to the apex ; on the inner side curved and set with spinose teeth, 

 the end itself obliquely truncate, and furnished with an expanded, 

 spongiose cushion ; 2nd pair at the end with a similar but smaller 

 cushion ; tarsi slender, stouter, and longer in the 3rd pair ; 1st joint 

 very short ; 2nd and 3rd in length subequal j claws very long and 

 curved. 



Abdomen long-oval, convex above, very convex beneath ; Con- 

 nexivum broad, much reflexed. 



Species 1. — MetastemMa guttula. 



Reduvius guttula. Fab. E. S. iv, 208, 5J. (1791) ; S. 11. 2S1, 70 (1S03). 



Nabis — Lat. Gen. iii, 128 (1807) ; IlaJut, 'Wanz. ii, 28, t. 41, 



fig. 130 (1834). 



Pkostkmma — Lap. Hem. 12, 13 (1833); Curt. B. E. xv, pi. 084 

 (1838); Burm. Haudb. ii, 241, 1 (1S35) ; Stein, 

 Eerl. Eut. Zeits. i, 86, 1 (1857). 



