NABIDiE. 555 



rower to the middle ; nerves pale ; Membrane paler tliau the corium ; 

 nerves fuscous. Sternum black, sides yellow ; Frosternum round the 

 coxae, Meso- and Metasternum, outside the coxse, ochreous. Legs 

 ochrcous, with fine whitish hairs ; coxce with a large black spot at 

 tlic base; iliiglis with rows of large brown spots, the underside of 

 1st and 2ud paii-s with fine transverse lines ; 1st pair with a broad 

 black stripe on the inner side ; 2ud piceons or blackish at the end ; 

 .3rd black on the last 3rd ; tihice with a fuscous spot below the base 

 and at the apex; tarsi; base of the 2ud joint, base and apex of the 

 3rd, and the claws, piceous. 



Abdomen above, black, shining, without hairs ; beneath black, 

 slightly shining, with fine whitish hairs, the middle and sides 

 ochreous; stigmata black ; Connexivum oii\xYeo\\B. Genital segments ; 

 margins ochreous. 



Length, 3-^ — 4 lines. 



Common from July to October, under bushes, plants, and field 

 refuse. 



Sjjecics G. — Nabis feuus. 



CiiiEx FERus, Liji. F. S. 962 (17G1) ; S. N. 731, lOS (17C7). 



Muus — Fab. S. R. 255, 11 (1S03) ; Fall. Hem. Suec. 133, 9 (1829). 



— VAGAXS, Fab. S. K. 255, 12 (1803); Wolff, Ic. Cini. 153, t. IH, 



fig. 153 (1801). 

 Nap.ts — Bunn. Ilaiulb. ii, 242, 1 (1835) ; Sclioltz. Arb. u. Veriiiul. 

 112, 1 (ISIG). 



— TERUS, Hahi, Wanz. ill, 31, t. S3, fig. 252 (1835); Am. et Scrv. 



Hem, 332, 3 (1813); Flor, Rhyii. Liv. i, G9S, 1 (18G0) ; 

 Fieb. Europ. Hem. IGl, 9 (ISGl). 



Pale ochreous, dull, with very fine, short, pale hairs. Head with a 

 black line down the centre ; sides with a black spot before and 

 behind the eyes. Pronoluvi on the first frds yellow-brown, with 

 a strong, blaclc, central line ; hinder 3rd much widened. Scu- 

 tellum black, sides yellow. TJgtra much longer than the abdo- 

 men ; elamis with a black spot at the apex ; corium with 2 black 

 spots on the 1st nerve, and 1 on the membrane-suture ; mem- 

 brane pale, the nerves fuscous. Legs with longitudinal rows of 

 small black or brown spots, naiu'ow and perceptibly transverse 

 on the 2nd pair of thighs. Abdomen black, beneath yellow in 

 the middle, witli a central black line ; connexivum pale ochreous. 



