250 Van Duzee: Catalogue of Hemiptcra [744- 



Banks, Cat. Nearc. Hemip., p. 18, 1910. 



Localities: Texas (?), Ariz.(?) (Banks). (Brazil.) 



744. Spiniger arizonica Banks 

 Banks, Ent. News, xxi, p. 324, 1910. 

 Locality: Ariz. 



Subfamily PIRATINAE (Am. & Serv.) 

 Amyot and Serville, Hemip., pp. xlii, 321, 1843, Groupe Piratides. 

 Stal, Berl. Ent. Zeit., iii, p. 328, 1859, Peiratida. 

 Dohrn, Cat. Hemip., p. 50, 1859, Piratidae. 

 Stal, Hemip. Afr., iii, pp. 44, 112, 1865, Piratida. 

 Stal, Of. Vet. Akad. Forh., xxiii, p. 250, 1866, Piratida. 

 Stal, Hemip. Fabr., i, p. 120, 1868, Piratida. 



Stal, Of. Vet. Akad. Forh., xxix, No. 6, pp. 43, 46, 1872, Piratina. 

 Stal, Enum. Hemip., ii, pp. 66, 104, 1872; iv, pp. 4, 56, 1874, Piratina. 

 Uhler, Check List, p. 25, 1886, Piratina. 



Lethierry and Severin, Cat. Genl. Hemip., iii, p. 120, 1896, Piratidae. 

 Champion, Biol. Centr. Am., Heter., ii, p. 211, 1899, Piratinae. 

 Distant, Fauna Br. Ind., Ehyn., ii, p. 290, 1904. 

 Oshanin, Verz. Palae. Hemip., i, p. 534, 1908, Piratina. 

 Banks, Cat. Nearc. Hemip., p. 18, 1910, Piratini. 

 Oshanin, Kat. Palae. Hemip., p. 51, 1912, Piratinae. 

 Fracker, Proc. la. Acad. Sci., xix, p. 220, 1913, Piratinae. 



Genus Melanolestes Stal 

 Logotype picipes H. S. 



Stal, Of. Vet. Akad. Forh., xxiii, pp. 251, 259, 1866. 



Stal, Enum. Hemip., ii, pp. 105, 107, 1872; iv, p. 60, 1874 (as subgen. of 



Provancher, Pet. Faune Ent. Can., iii, p. 183, 1887. [Pirates). 



Champion, Biol. Centr. Am., Heter., ii, p. 213, 1899. 



Fracker, Proc. la. Acad. Sci., xix, p. 220, 1913. 



745. Melanolestes picipes (H. S.) 

 Herrich-Schaeffer, Wanz. Ins., viii, p. 62, 1848, Pirates. 

 Stal, Of. Vet. Akad. Forh., xxiii, p. 259, 1866. 

 Stal, Enum. Hemip., ii, p. 107, 1872. 



Uhler, Hayden's Surv. Terr., Eept. for 1871, p. 421, 1872. 

 Walker, Cat. Heter., vii, p. 97, 1873, Pirates. 

 Uhler, Bui. U. S. Geol. Geog. Surv., i, p. 330, 1876. 

 Uhler, Wheeler's Eept. Chief Eng. for 1877, p. 1330. 

 Uhler, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., xix, p. 424, 1878. 

 Uhler, Stand. Nat. Hist., ii, p. 281, 1884. 

 Provancher, Pet. Faune Ent. Can., iii, p. 183, 1887. 

 Lintner, 4th Eept. N. Y. St. Ent., p. 109, 1888. 

 Uhler, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., Ser. 2, iv, p. 284, 1894. 

 Bueno and Brimley, Ent. News, xvii, p. 437, 1907. 

 Bueno, Jl. N. Y. Ent. Soc, xvi, p. 235, 1908. 

 Smith, Cat. Ins. N. J., edn. 3, p. 154, 1910. 

 Fracker, Proc. la. Acad. Sci., xix, p. 233, 1913. 

 Barber, Bui. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., xxxiii, p. 505, 1914. 



pungens Leconte, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., vii, p. 404, 1856, Eeduvivs. 

 Localities: Quebec, Me., Mass., N. Y., N. J., Pa., Del., Va., N. C, 

 Ga., Ala., Fla., La., 111., Texas, N. Mex., Okl., Calif. 



