HEMIPTERA HETEROPTERA. wal 
than the hind femora, with a stout apical spur. Hind tarsi piceous. 
Fore wings brown; corium with pale veins. Hind wings cinereous; veins 
black. Female.—Bands of the abdomen connected. Hind femora less 
incrassated than those of the male. Hind tibia not dilated, with a testa- 
ceous band beyond the middle. Length of the body 53—6 lines. 
a,b. Para. From Mr. Bates’ collection. 
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Genus 17. PHIDIPPUS. 
Phidippus, Stal, Hem. Fabr. 42. 
Phidippus, Flavius, Hirileus and Peranthus are hardly sufficiently 
different from Meropachys to be considered as genera. 
1. PHIDIPPUS ASPER. 
Mas. Fulvus, longiusculus ; rostrum coxas anticas atlingens; antenne 
ruf@e, corpore multo breviores; prothorax scaber, angulis posticis 
subobtusis non prominulis ; scutellum apice flavum ; femora postica 
incrassata, subarcuata, subtus uniseriatim spinosa; tibie postice 
subtus dentate et unispinose. 
Male. Tawny, elongate. Eyes piceous, prominent. Rostrum 
extending to the fore cox; joints nearly equal in length. Antenne red, 
much shorter than the body; joints from the first to the third successively 
decreasing in length. Prothorax scabrous; a callus on each side near the 
fore border; transverse ridge near the hind border slight; sides straight; 
hind angles slightly obtuse, not prominent. Scutellum with a callus on 
each side near the base and with two transverse furrows nearer the tip, 
which is smooth and pale yellow. Four anterior femora beneath with some 
minute spines and with a longer subapical spine on each side. Hind 
femora incrassated, slightly curved, about half the length of the abdomen, 
with a row of stout spines beneath. Hind tibie a little longer than the 
hind femora, dentate beneath, where there is one spine at a little beyond 
the middle. Fore wings not covering the sides nor the tip of the abdomen ; 
membrane cinereous. Length of the body 10 lines. 
a, Amazon Region. From Mr. Bates’ collection. 
Genus 18. FLAVIUS. 
Flavius, Stal, Stett, Ent. Zeit. xxiii. 274. Ofv. K. V. Ak. Forh. 1867, 
536. Hem. Fabr. 4. 
1. FLAVIUS LINEATICORNIS. 
lineaticornis, Stal, Stett. Ent. Zeit. xxiii. 275. 
Mexico. 
2. FLavius PINGUIS. 
pinguis, Stal, Stett. Ent. Zeit, xxiii. 275. 
Mexico. 
