REDUVIUS SPISSIPES. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Thorax and hemelytra light reddish-brown, 

 edged behind with whitish ; feet thick. 



SYNONYM. 



Reduvius SPISSIPES. Nobis. Journ. Acad. Nat. 

 Sciences^ vol. iv. p. 328. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Head black, posterior lobe with two tubercles : 

 thorax light reddish-brown; anterior lobe with 

 dilated, black, oblique, or arcuated lines, of 

 which some are confluent ; posterior lobe hardly 

 more elevated than the preceding, with a black 

 posterior sub-margin, and white posterior mar- 

 gin: scutel black, margined with white, and 

 tipped by a few hairs : hemelytra^ coriaceous por- 

 tion light reddish-brown, with a narrow whitish 

 posterior margin ; membranaceous portion black, 

 or dark fuscous: feet thickened, black, hairy: 



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