REDUVID^B. 539 



not so thick as, the 1st, cylindrical, slightly thickened to the apex; 

 3rd pair long, cylindrical ; tibice ; 1st and 2nd pairs stout, short; 

 the 1st with a deep, exterior, subapical channel ; 3rd pair long, cylin- 

 drical ; tarsi short, stout. 



Abdomen long, the segments long, the posterior margin of the 1st 

 4, on the underside, cut out in a semi-oval, on the 5th angularly, 

 on the 6th straight, with the angles obtuse, prominent. Genital 

 segments ; in the <^ above, 1 visible, flat, long-cordate, constricted 

 before the apex, projecting beyond the abdominal segments ; on the 

 underside 2 are visible, convex, the 1st triangular, cleft in the centre, 

 the points of the cleft parted ; the 2nd short convex, obtuse, lies 

 parallel to, but within the end of the segment on the upper side. In 

 the ? , according to Fieber, the abdomen ends with 2 obtuse plates. 



Species 1. PYGOLAMPIS BIFURCATA. 



CIMEX BIFURCATUS, Gmel. Lin. S. N. 4, 2181, 457 (1788). 



ACANTHIA DENTICULATA, Rossi, E. E. 1284 (1790). 



GERRIS PALLIPES, Fab. E. S. iv, 189, C (1794) ; S. R. 262, G (1803). 

 PYGOLAMPIS BIFURCATA, Germ. P. Ins. Eur. 8, 22 ; Reis. Dalm. 268, 493 



(1817). 



EMESA DENTICOLLIS, Fall. Hem. Suec. 161, 23, 1 (1829). 

 OCHETOPUS SPINICOLLIS, Hahn, Wanz. i, 177, t. 28, fig. 92 (1831). 

 PYGOLAMPIS BIFURCATA, Fieb. Europ. Hem. 151 (1861). 



Dull brown, with fine, appressed hairs; abdomen reddish-yellow; 

 connexivum with a yellow spot at the junction of the segments ; 

 corium and membrane nearly unicolorous. 



Head black-brown, the anterior portion with 2 red-brown lines 

 divergent from the base to the antenniferous processes. Antenna ; 

 1st joint brown, the remainder black, all with very short projecting 

 hairs. Eyes black. Ocelli black, shining. Rostrum black-brown. 

 Head beneath brown, the margins black. 



Thorax. Pronotum black-brown in front. ScuteUum blackish. 

 Elytra dull brown ; Corium at the base, and the membrane, reddish 

 or yellowish-brown. Sternum black, with several short, erect, blunt 

 spines, the 2 anterior spines of the prosternum yellowish at the 

 apex. 



Abdomen reddish-yellow; Connexivum brown, speckled with, 

 yellow; at the junction of the segments a yellow spot: underside 



