536 REDUVINA. 



Species 1. PLOT ARIA ERRATICA. 



? CIMEX CULICIFORMIS, De Q. Mem. iii, 323, 4, t. 17, figs. 18 (1773). 

 GERRIS ERRATICUS, Fall. Mon. Cim. 117, 6 (1807); Hem. Suec. 164, 2 



(1829) ; Burm. Handb. ii, 224, 2 (1835) ; II. Schf. 



Wanz. ix, 118 (1850). 

 PLOEARIA ERRATICA, Fieb. Europ. Hem. 149, 2 (1861). 



Antennae and legs without hairs. 



Head yellowish-fuscous, with very short, whitish, appressed hairs ; 

 the hinder -J darker, with a black line on the side. Antenna naked, 

 black-brown ; 1st joint with several white rings. Eyes black. Ros- 

 trum yellowish, 1st joint, middle of the 2nd, and base of the 3rd, 

 blackish. 



Thorax. Pronotum yellowish-fuscous, the sides with a darker line 

 growing paler posteriorly, the incrassated sides of the anterior part 

 very stout ; side and posterior margins and the hinder angles whitish ; 

 posterior margin straight. Scutellum brown, apical spine yellow; 

 basal nodule fuscous, the end of its spine whitish. Elytra fuscous, 

 nerves white ; the prolongation of the Corium on the anterior margin 

 yellowish, with a long black spot at the end ; Membrane tesselated 

 black and white. Sternum piceous. Legs dark brown, with broad 

 white rings, except towards the end of the tibia. 



Abdomen above, dark piceous ; Conneximim yellowish, on the 

 anterior \ of each segment paler, on the posterior J blackish : 

 underside deep piceous, the middle and sides yellowish; stigmata 

 prominent, white. 



Length, 2 lines. 



In thatch in autumn, not scarce. The larva, according to Bur- 

 meister, covers itself with dust. 



Species 2. PLOIARIA VAGABUNDA. 



CIMEX VAGABUNDUS, Lin. F. S. 972 (1761) ; S. N. 732, 119 (1767). 

 ? CULICIFORMIS, De G. Mem. iii, 323, 41, t: 17, figs. 18 (1773). 

 PLOIARIA VAGABUNDA, Scop. Del. Flor. et Faun. Insubr. t. 25, fig. 5 

 (1785-8). 



