550 REDUVINA. 



Species 2. — Nabis apterus. 



Reduvius aptehus, Fab. E. S. Sup. 5 IG, 51. (179S) ; S. R. 2S1, 73 (1S03) ; 



IFolff, Ic. Cim. 201, 20, t. 20, fig. 200 (ISll). 

 Aptus — Ilahn, Wauz. i, 35 (1S31). 



— suBAPTERus, IlaJui, Waiiz. i, t. 0, Cg. 2i (1S31). 

 Nams — Fieb. Europ. Hem. IGO, 2 (ISGl). 



Black ; head, ^yronoiuvii auci elytra dull, yellow-brown, tlie 2 latter 

 mottled with fuscous, sides of the pronotam black, i^yi'oelire- 

 ous or yellow-brown ; tliirjlis and tihice witli 2 or 3 black or 

 brown rings. Elytra; the corinm generally sliort, and the mem- 

 brane only ^ developed. Abdomen sliiniug. 



Head smooth. Antennce yellow-brown, 1st joint ^ as long as the 

 head, base and apex piceous ; 3rd just before the aj^ex black, apex 

 yellowish ; 4th and 5th piceous ; 3rd and base of the 4th with short, 

 projecting hairs. -27yes black. Ocelli ve^. Bostr^lm jeW.ow-'hYown', 

 1st joint, except the apex, and the base of the 2nd, black ; 3rd and 

 4th sometimes piceous. 



Thorax. — Pronotum smooth, with a few, scarcely perceptible 

 hairs; yellow-brown mottled with fuscous-brown, most on the pos- 

 terior portion ; sides black ; po.5tcrior margin straight. (In examples 

 where the elytra are not fully developed the prouotum is not so wide 

 or convex posteriorly as in those wlicre the elytra are fully deve- 

 loped.) Elytra yellow-brov/n, brighter on the corium thau on the 

 membrane, mottled or obscured with fuscous ; Corium ; apex fuscous- 

 black ; Ifemhrane at the exterior basal angle whitish, with a black 

 spot adjoining. Sternum ; the raised part roiuid the coxa? yellowish- 

 white. Leys, including the coxw, ochrcous, Avith very fine, short, yel- 

 lowish hairs, the underside with stronger, black hairs ; thighs on the 

 sides with 1 or 2 rows of blackish spots, on the inner side punctured, 

 and 2 undefined blackish rings on the apical ^ ; tihia; ; 1st and 2nd 

 pairs with 3 black-brown rings, the middle one broadest and palest ; 

 3rd pair with 2 black rings, 1 just below the base, the other 

 at the apex ; tarsi ; base of the 2nd joint, and apex of the 3rd, 

 black. 



Ahdomen above and beneath very finely creuato, and with vcrv 

 short, fine, gray hairs ; Connexivnm ; at the base of cacli segment a 



