HETEROPTEROTJS HEMIPTERA. 355 



Body rufous, somewhat polished ; minutely rugulous, much 

 depressed : head fuscous, excepting the prominent lobe or nasus 

 which is subacute, tubercle before the eyes scarcely prominent 

 obtuse : thorax brown behind ; anterior angles rather prominent 

 and rounded ; lateral edge widely emarginate : scutel brown, con- 

 vex ; hemelytra brown at base, fuliginous towards the tip. 



Length three-twentieths of an inch. 



Resembles the Ixvis Fabr., but the hemelytra are not dull 

 white on the margin ; and the tubercle before the eyes is not 

 prominent, as represented by Curtis. [800] 



REDUVIUS Fabr. 



1. R. linitakis. — Black, thoracic and abdominal margin, 

 basal margin of the hemelytra, coxae and pectoral spots san- 

 guineous. 



Inhabits Indiana. 



Body black, somewhat hairy : thorax transversely imp: 

 before the middle ; a narrow sanguineous margin all around : 

 scutel with a narrow sanguineous margin : hemelytra with the 

 basal third of the costal edge dilating a little on the humerus, 

 sanguineous: abdomen on the superior and inferior margin san- 

 guineous : feet anterior pairs, trochanters and above each foot 

 on the pectus, sanguineous; posterior tibiae slightly curved near 

 the tip, and with a hairy dilation nearly 'equal to the dian 

 of the tibiaB. 



Length to tip of hemelytra seven-tenths of an inch. 



Both this and the following species have man} r points of a_ 

 ment with the Fabrician description of crassijx's, which, how- 

 ever, is " fuscous :" " thorax margine laterali etpostico tenuissime 

 rufo. Scutellum nigrum." It is the anterior pairs of the tibiae 

 that are robust and they exhibit on the anterior tip a groove to 

 receive the tarsi. 



[Belongs to Apiomerus. — Uhler.] 



2. R. ventralis. — Brown-black; posterior margin of the 

 elytra, and abdomen sanguineous, the latter with lateral black 

 spots and lateral vittae beneath. 



Inhabits Missouri. 



Body brown-black, somewhat hairy: thorax transversely im- 

 pressed before the middle ; anterior portion inequal ; posterior 

 portion margined each side and behind narrowly with sanguine- 



