1869.] 325 [Uhler. 



antennas, basal joint rufous, second black, annulated at base and on 

 the middle with rufo-flavous, third black, rufo-ilavous at base, fourth 

 fuscous, rufo-flavous at base; rostrum flavo-rufous, infuscated on the 

 labium and middle line, tip black. Pronotum opaque, tile red, ti-ans- 

 versely, confluently rugulose, with punctures between the ridges, 

 sides deeply inuated, the lateral edge almost to tip of humeral angles 

 black, and with black denticulations both befoi'e and behind the 

 angles; pectus slightly rugulose, the anterior segment confluently, 

 more finely punctured than above, the intermediate and posterior 

 segments still more finely, remotely punctured, sternum smooth, pol- 

 ished, a black dot on the middle of the meso- and metapleura, and 

 corresponding series of dots on the sides of the ventral segments; 

 legs long, slender, the teeth of the tip largest, all the teeth more or 

 less blackish, tibife closely armed with erect bristly hairs, the tip 

 slightly infuscated, as also the tip of the tarsal joints. Scutellum 

 raised at base, rugulose about the tip, remotely punctured. Hemely- 

 tra minutely pubescent, nervures of the corium much elevated, paler 

 than the surface, punctures more remote and coarse at base, finer 

 and closer on the disk and towards the tip; membrane brownish- 

 hyaline; wings slightly tinged with brown, the nervures darker brown. 

 Tergum cinnamon-reddish, the connexivum infuscated, its edge black, 

 and with a pale spot at the basal corner of each segment, excepting 

 the two last; venter smooth, polished. 



Length twenty-five millimetres. Length of thorax in a straight 

 line, six millimetres. Breadth between the tips of thoracic prolonga- 

 tions, ten millimetres. 



Collected between Napo and Maranon. 



Hypselonotus linea Dallas, Brit. Mus. Cat., p. 4G5; No. 4. 

 Lf/fjceus linea Fab., Syst. Rhyng., p. 220, 75. StoU, Punaises, pi. 11, 

 fig. 82. 



Captured between Quito and Napo. 



Fam. Lyg.eid^. 



Lygseus confraternus Uhler. Form of i. Poeijl Guerin. Dirty 

 reddish-yellow. Tylus, antenna?, rostrum, eyes and tarsi piceous- 

 black. Cranium convex, orange-yellow, slightly pubescent; the 

 reddish ocelli placed upon black dots ; rostrum reaching to the ex- 

 tremity of the posterior coxaj, under side of head whitish. Pronotum 

 flattened on the disk, broader than long, the lateral margins thick- 

 ened and elevated, of a dirty orange color, the disk and posterior mid- 



