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branaceous portion ; tip blackisli : feet white, spotted with 

 black ; thighs armed at the tip beneath, with two short acute 

 spines : tergum sanguineous, base, tip, and margin black, the 

 latter with five white oblique lines : venter pale, spotted with 

 black. 



Length of ths female eleven-twentieths of an inch. [320] 



I have not yet seen the male of this species, it bears a general 

 resemblance to C. galeatus Fabr. and is about equal to that 

 species in magnitude, but it may be at once distinguished by the 

 white transverse line at the base of the membranaceous portion 

 of the hemelytra. 



4. C. LATERALIS. — Pale reddish-brown, punctured : hemely- 

 tra with spotted nervures; feet pale, spotted. 



Inhabits the United States. 



Body somewhat hairy, pale reddish-brown, with much dilated 

 approximate punctures : head somewhat unequal, two obsolete 

 impressed lines between the antennae, a blackish spot behind the 

 eye : eyes dusky, pale before : antennae brownish, with sparse 

 hairs; terminal joint as long as the preceding one, dilated, with 

 cinereous pubescence : thorax with three obsolete dusky spots 

 before, and an impunctured whitish line abbreviated before; scu- 

 tel with a longitudinal, impunctured whitish line : hemelytra, 

 nervures with black spots, interstitial spaces membranaceous ; 

 membranaceous tip immaculate, whitish : beneath with a distinct 

 lateral red line; feet hairy, pale; thighs spotted with reddish- 

 brown ; pectus rufous : venter yellowish or rufous. 



Length more than a quarter of an inch. 



Found near Engineer Cantonment, and is not uncommon in 

 Pennsylvania. [321] 



LYG^US Fabr. Latr. 



1. L. RECLIVATUS. — Black, spot on the vertex, three on the 

 thorax and reclivate line on the hemelytra, red ; a geminate 

 white spot near the hemelytra. 



Inhabits Missouri. 



Body black, opaque, with a somewhat cinereous shade : head 

 with a rufous spot on the vertex : thorax unarmed, with an ob- 

 solete, indented, transverse, punctured line before ; three rufous 

 spots behind the middle, inner spot not attaining the base, outer 

 1825.] 



