554 REDUVINA. 



Species 5. — Nabis flavomarginatus. 



Nabis flavomakginata, Scliolz. Arb. u. Veriiud. 114, 6 (ISIG). 



— rLAYOMAKGiNATUS, Ilor, Eliyii. Liv. i, GOG, 3 (ISGO) ; Tieh. Europ. 



Hern. IGl, 5 (18G1). 



— DORSATUs, BaUh. Vet. Akad. Handl. 227 (1850). 



— NEUVOSUs, Bohem. Vet. Akad. Forli. 11, 35 (1852). 



Above fuseo-oclireous. Head with a broad, central, black line. Fro- 

 noium ; middle and sides with a black line, Scutellum black ; 

 sides pale ochreous. Elytra : corium ; anterior margin on the 

 basal ^ pale ochreous, nerves pale ; membrane paler than the 

 corium, with strong fuscous nerves. Thighs with rows of large 

 brown spots ; 1st and 2nd pairs beneath with transverse lines ; 

 1st pair Avith a broad black stripe down the inner side ; 2nd 

 piceous at the end ; 3rd black on the last 3rd. Ahilomcn 

 above, black ; beneath, the middle, and sides ochreous. 



Head with prominent whitish hairs ; the centre with a broad black 

 line, widening to the front, extending from the base to the front of 

 the clypeus, passing between the ocelli, and leaving a narrow yellow 

 line on the sides ; behind the eyes black ; antenniferous processes 

 black, shining, the aj)ex yellow ; Face ; central lobe black ; a yellow 

 spot at the end of the side lobes. Underside black, the middle 

 and sides yellow. Aiitcimce yellow-brown ; apex of 3rd joint, and 

 4th and 5th entirely, piceous. Fi/es and Ocelli piceous. Eostnim 

 yellow-brown; 1st joint black on the middle and sides; 2nd with a 

 brown line. 



Thorax. — Fronotum with fine, short, whitish hairs ; sides, beyond 

 the annulus, gradually widening in a curve to the constriction ; 

 centre and sides with a broad black line, the central one continued 

 narrowly on the posterior 3rd, previously, at the transverse depres- 

 sion, giving out on each side, at a right angle, a short, stout, black 

 line, at the end of which is a smooth space, bounded (except pos- 

 teriorly) by an impressed narrow line, which is sometimes black; 

 side margins narrowly ochreous ; posterior 3rd wide and convex, 

 paler than the rest, with 2 or 3 fuscous lines on each side of the 

 central line. Scutelhim black, sides with an ochreous spot gradually 

 narrower to the apex. Elytra as long as the abdomen, fusco-ochreous ; 

 Corium ; anterior margin with an ochreous stripe, gradually nar- 



