VENTIDIUS. 



157 



abdominal apex ; rostrum short, scarcely passing the anterior coxae; 

 legs slender, anterior femora about as long as the anterior tibia;, 

 inwardly a little spinous at apices, intermediate femora longer 

 than posterior femora. (Macropterous form.) 



In the apterous or undeveloped form the pronotum is considerably 

 shorter than broad. 



Allied to Metrocoris, but with the body shorter and broader, and 

 with hirsute antennae. 



2930. Ventidius aquarius, Dist. A. M. N. H. (8) v, p. 150 (1910). 



Macropterous form. — Head and pronotum ochraceous, the latter 

 with a large cruciform fascia and the sublateral and apical margins 

 black ; eyes black ; antennae black, base of first joint ochraceous ; 



Fig. 84. — Ventidius aquarius. 



liemelytra black ; body beneath ochraceous ; legs and apex of 

 rostrum black, bases of anterior femora ochraceous ; acetabula and 

 coxae spotted with black ; structural characters as in generic 

 diagnosis. 



Apterous form. — Body above ochraceous ; pronotum with a 

 narrow sublateral fascia, "angulated and reaching mai'gin at humeral 

 angle, and two spots at centre of posterior margin continued 

 obliquely across mesonotum, black, other markings generally as in 



