REDUVID^. 539 



not so thick as, the 1st, cylindrical, slightly thickened to the apex; 

 3rd pair long, cylindrical ; tibice ; 1st and 2ud pairs stout, short; 

 the Iptwitli a deep, exterior, subapical channel ; 3rd pair long, evlin- 

 drical ; tarsi short, stout. 



Abdomen long, the segments long, the posterior margin of the 1st 

 4, on the underside, cut out in a semi-oval, on the 5th angularly, 

 on the 6th straight, witli the angles obtuse, prominent. Genital 

 segments ; in the ^ above, 1 visible, flat, long-cordate, constricted 

 before the apex, projecting beyond the abdominal segments ; on the 

 underside 2 are visible, convex, the 1st triangular, cleft in the centre, 

 the points of the cleft parted ; the 2ud short convex, obtuse, lies 

 parallel to, but within the end of the segment on the Tipper side. In 

 the ? , according to Fieber, the abdomen ends with 2 obtuse plates. 



Species 1. — Pygolampis BiruRCATA. 



CniEX BiFURCATUs, Giiiel. Lin. S. N. 4, 21S1, 457 (17SS). 



AcANTiiiA DENTicuLATA, Rossi, F. E. 12S4 (1790). 



Gekris pallipes, Fab. E. S. iv, 189, 6 (1794); S. R. 262, 6 (1803). 



Pygolampis bifurcata, Germ. F. Ins. Eiu-. 8, 22 ; Reis. Dahn. 2GS, 493 



(1817). 

 Emesa denticollis, Fall. Hem. Suec. IGl, 23, 1 (1829). 

 OcnETOPUs sPiNicoLLis, Bahii, Wanz. i, 177, t. 28, fig. 92 (1831). 

 PyGOLAMPis BiFURCATA, Fieb. Europ. Hem. 1.51 (1861). 



Dull brown, with fine, appressed hairs; abdomen reddish-yellow; 

 connexivum with a yellow spot at the junction of the segments ; 

 coriiim and membrane nearly unicolorous. 



Head black-brown, the anterior portion with 2 red-brown lines 

 divergent from the base to the antenniferous processes. Antennce ; 

 1st joint brown, the remainder black, all with very short projecting 

 hairs. Eijes black. Ocelli black, shining. Sostrum black-brown. 

 Head beneath brown, the margins black. 



Thorax. — Pronotum black-brown in front. ScufeUum blackish. 

 Elytra dull brown ; Corium at the base, and the membrane, reddish 

 or yellowisb-brown. Sternum black, with several short, erect, blunt 

 spines, the 2 anterior spines of the i^rosternum yellowish at the 

 apex. 



Abdomen reddish-yellow ; Connexivum' brown, speckled A\ith 

 yellow; at the junction of the segments a yellow spot; underside 



