HENESTARID^E. 229 



Species 1. HENESTARIS LATICEPS. 



HETEROGASTER LATICEPS, Curt. B. E. p. & fig. 597 (1836). 

 HENESTAHIS SPINDLY, A. Costa, Corr. Zool. i, 136, pi. 11 (1839) ; Ann. 

 Soc. Ent. "France, x, 304 (1841) ; Am. et Serv. 

 Hem. 250, 1, (1843) ; Fieb. Europ. Hem. 174 

 (1861). 

 GENEI, Spin. Hem. 230, 1 (1840). 



HISPANA, Ramb. E. And. ii, sp. 145 (1842). 



Ochreous, dull, more or less clouded with brown, and with very fine, 

 short, yellow hairs. 



Head ochreous, black-punctured ; with a black line round the base 

 of the peduncle of the eyes, and on the peduncle 2 black spots ; Face ; 

 central lobe with a narrow black margin. Antenna ochreous-brown, 

 with fine short hairs, and indistinct, piceous spots ; 1st joint darker, 

 black beneath ; 4th pitchy-black. Eyes brown. Ocelli red. Ros- 

 trum piceous, 1st joint paler. 



Thorax. Pronotum ochreous, with distinct, round, black punc- 

 tures ; behind the anterior margin 2 black fovese ; the sides, a 

 central line, the hinder angles, and a spot on the middle of the 

 posterior margin, clear. Scutellum ochreous, with strong black punc- 

 tures, except on the centre and posterior convexity, which are clear 

 and smooth. Elytra ; Clavus with 4 rows of black punctures, and 

 a black, punctured spot towards the end; Corium with black punctures 

 in rows, ochreous on the inner side and base of anterior margin, 

 the rest of the disk (except a long, raised ochreous spot near the 

 posterior margin) piceous; posterior margin piceous or black, 

 except at the inner angle ; Membrane transparent ; nerves (except 

 the base of the 4th and 5th) dusky, the space betwen them, 

 especially between the 2nd and 3rd, with an opaque dotted shade ; 

 inner basal angle clear. Sternum ochreous-brown, with fine, black 

 punctures ; the centre black. Legs ochreous ; thighs nearly covered 

 with large confluent, black spots ; tarsi piceous ; base of the 1st and 

 2nd joints ochreous. 



Abdomen above, black ; Gonnexwum ochreous-brown, paler at 

 the junction of the segments, the edge brown. Underside ochreous- 

 brown, the 2 basal segments in the middle black ; the margins of all 



