358 HETEROPTEROUS HEMIPTERA. 



PETALOCHEIRUS Beauv. 



1. P. CRUCIATUS. — Sanguineous, thoracic spot, scutel and 

 hemelytra black ; scutel bifid at tip. 



Inhabits United States. 



Body sanguineous : head black behind the eyes ; antennae black : 

 thorax with a longitudinal impressed line extending nearly to 

 the base and forming a cruciate mark with the transverse line } 

 an irregular black spot on the disk ; scutel rugulose, lip [tip] 

 ox'bicularly bifid : hemelytra black ; humerus yellowish : pectus 

 and postpectus black : feet whitish ; thighs at tip and tibise 

 [803] at tip and base blackish; tarsi dusky; rostrum pale, 

 second joint blackish. 



Length half an inch. 



I have taken this insect in Indiana and Missouri, and Mr 

 Oemler sent me a specimen from Greorgia. 



[This is Ectri/chotes hicolor H. Schafl"er, 8, tab. 266, fig. 822.— 

 Uhler.] 



2. P. BiGUTTATUS nob., New Sp. of N. Amer. Ins. found by 

 J. Barabino, p. 13. [Ante, p. 307.] Hemelytra with a yellow 

 spot beyond the middle and another at base. 



NABIS Latr. 



1. N. PTJRCig Drury (Cimex) Ins. Y. p. 63, pi. 45, f. 4. I 

 took many specimens in Georgia and Florida. 



[Belongs to Uammatocerus — Uhler.] 



2. N. NOVENARius nob., (Reduvius) Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. 

 [Ante, p. 71. Belongs to Prionotus. — Uhler.] 



PLOIARIA Scop. 



1. P. FRATERNA. — Brown ; feet immaculate; hemelytra as 

 long as the head and thorax. 



Inhabits New Orleans. 



Body slender and elongated, brown ; resembling P. ; Amer. 



Entom. V, 3, pi. 47, [Ante, p. 106.] but is smaller; feet im- 

 maculate : largest spine of the anterior feet white, with a black 

 tip ; tibiae blackish : head paler than the thorax, with a double 

 brown line diverging anteriorly before the transversed impressed 



