﻿684. 

 PROSTEMMA GUTTULA. 



Order Hemiptera. Fam. Reduviidse. 



Type of the Genus, Reduvius Guttula Fab. 



Pbostemma DeLap. — Postemma Dufour. — Reduvius Fab. — Nabis 

 Lat., Hahn. 



Antenna attached to little shoulders on each side of the clypeus, 

 before the eyes, not longer than the head and thorax, very 

 slender, hairy, pilose, and 5-jointed, basal joint elongated, linear 

 and naked, 2nd short and somevv^hat pear-shaped, 3rd very long 

 and clavate, 4th as long but slender, as well as the 3 th, which 

 is shorter (4). 



Labium scarcely longer than the head, stout, attenuated and 

 triarticulate, basal joint elongated, slightly narrowed at the 

 base, 2nd longer and attenuated, 3rd short and pointed (2). 

 Rostrum a little longer than the head, stout, tapering and incurved: 

 head small, narrowed at the base behind the eyes, and forming a 

 short collar ; clypeus narrowed : eyes remote, large, j}rominent and 

 hem.ispherical : ocelli 2, very minute, placed near to the eyes on the 

 crown of the head, but towards the base (1 front view of head, 1* 

 the profile). Thorax trapezate, convex, twice as broad as the head 

 before, much broader behind, with a transverse suture, the base nearly 

 straight : scutellum rather large and triangular. Elytra often ru- 

 dimentary with no wings. Abdomen much broader than the thorax 

 and nearly thrice as lotig, ovate, convex, the margins reflexed. Legs 

 rather short and stout, anterior the shortest and raptorious, hinder 

 the longest : thighs thick, anterior incrassated, with a double series 

 of short thick spines beneath, except at the base and apex : tibiae 

 stout, anterior concave and spiny inside, dilated at the apex, lohich 

 is truncated obliquely, very fleshy and forming a hollow lobe, on the 

 inside of which are inserted the tarsi, which are triarticulate, basal 

 joint the smallest, truncated obliquely : '2nd elongated, '3rd a little 

 the longest : claws rather long slender and simple (6, afore leg), the 

 intermediate tibiae have an ovate lobe at the apex beneath the tarsi, 

 and the hinder pair is simple. 



Guttula Fab. — Panz, 101. 21. — Curt. Guide, Gen. 1095^. — brache- 

 lytrum Dufour Ann. de la Soc. Ent. de France. — staphylinus 

 Gmel. 4. 2200. 688 > 



Female bright shining black, with long hairs ; 3 basal joints of 

 antennae pale ferruginous, except at the apex ; head and thorax 

 very smooth and greenish, especially the latter; elytra very 

 short, opake red, with a few punctured striae, hinder edge 

 whitish ; a cordiform spot on the suture, an interrupted line 

 close to the hinder margin and the scutel velvety-black : abdo- 

 men deep bluish, thickly punctured, especially towards the base : 

 legs bright red, coxae black, trochanters and anterior tibiae 

 ochreous, all the tibiae piceous at the apex, tarsi dull ochreous. 

 Winged specimens bluish-black, legs red, elytra scarlet to the 

 centre and along the costa to the stigma, where there is a white 

 spot, a black spot behind the scutel and a white one below it. 

 In the Author's Cabinet. 



