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453. 

 CORANUS SUBAPTERUS. 



Order Hemiptera. Fam. Reduviidae. 



Type of the Genus, Reduvius pedestris, Wolff. 

 CoRANUS Curt. — Reduvius Wolff., Curt. 



Antennce inserted in cavities before the eyes, towards the base of 

 the clypeus, remote, fiUform, flagellate, pubescent, pilose towards 

 the base, as long as the head and thorax, 8-jointed, basal joint 

 minute, 2nd a little the longest and stoutest, 3rd 5th and 7th 

 minute, 4th and 6th of equal length, not longer united than 

 the apical one, which is shorter than the 2nd (4). 

 Labrum ovate-conic, pUose, articulated at the middle and ter- 

 minating in a trigonate lobe (3). 



Rostrum as long as the head, and received into a groove beneath 

 it, curved, attenuated, very horny and naked, triarticulate, 2nd 

 joint a little longer than the 1st, 3rd only half the length and 

 elongate-conic (2). 

 Mandibles and Maxillfe setiform. 

 Head subovate : eyes small globose and remote: ocelli 2, minute, remote 

 and placed behind the eyes. Thorax subtrigonate truncate, the angles 

 rounded, with a transverse suture at the middle, the anterior portion 

 being gibbose: scutellum. small subtrigonate. Abdomen considerably 

 broader than the thoi-ax elongate ovate, concave above, the sides being 

 elevated, very convex beneath. Elytra very small, the apex and inter- 

 nal rtiargin membranous, with a few nervures (9) : wings smaller and 

 membranous (*). hegs, posterior the longest : thighs, four ante7ior 

 robust : tibicC simple : tarsi triarticulate, basal joint the smallest 

 sometimes concealed by the apex of the tibia, 3rd joint the longest in 

 the hinder pair. Claws and PulvilU small and simple (6, afore leg). 



SuBAPTERus DeGeer? — Curt. Guide, Gen. 1096, 1. — pedestris Wolff'. 

 Black with a rosy tinge, clothed with minute dejjressed yellowish 

 pubescence : eyes black : antennae and legs pilose, the former 

 pale castaneous variegated with fuscous : head with a transverse 

 semicircular impression between the eyes, the margins of wliich 

 and a line down the hinder part are dull pink : thorax with se- 

 veral black spots on the anterior portion, with a blackish streak 

 on each side behind : scutellum elevated at the apex, with a pale 

 ridge down the centre : elytra with the tips glossy and bronzed : 

 abdomen with a line of black spots down each side of the back, 

 the margin spotted with ochre : legs dull ferruginous spotted or 

 banded with fuscous or black, especially the thighs. 

 In the Author's and other Cabinets. 



I FOUND several specimens of C. suhaptenis on the sand hills 

 at Pegwell Bay the middle of October; they had a peculiar 

 scent resembling that of mellow apples, I think ; some were 

 running about, others lying quite still watching (like a cat for 

 a mouse) apparently for flies on which the larvae feed, and 



