544 REDUVINA. 



jecting round the base of the tarsi ; 3rd pair long, cylindrical, slightly 

 thickened at the apex ; tarsi long, 3rd joint longest, the 1st joint on 

 the 1st and 2nd pairs very short, on 3rd pair nearly as long as the 

 2nd; claws long, stout, curved. 



Abdomen long, elliptic, above flat or concave, Conneocivum broad, 

 vertical: beneath convex, flattened at the sides, the 1st and 2nd 

 segments with a slight central keel ; the posterior margin of all the 

 segments (except the last) concave; the 6th, in the <^, posteriorly 

 with an oval aperture, through which the only visible genital segment 

 protrudes ; in the ? , the 6th segment above has the posterior 

 margin slightly concave, beneath, it is constricted before its pos- 

 terior margin, which is slightly convex. Genital segments ; in the 

 ? , above, 3 are visible, the 1st short and flat, makes with its 

 rounded posterior margin the contour of the abdominal segments, 

 the 2nd longer with convergent sides ; the 3rd short and obtuse ; 

 beneath, the 1st segment is cleft in the middle, the sides of the cleft 

 widely divergent ; the 2nd rhomboidal, deeply incised longitudinally, 

 lies in the cleft and projects beyond it j the 3rd projects beyond the 

 2nd in a somewhat obtuse point, the sides incrassated and raised in 

 a triangle round the apex of the 2nd. 



Species 1. REDUVIUS PEUSONATUS. 



CIMEX PERSONATUS, Lin. F. S. 942 (1761) ; S. N. 493, 64, t. 11, fig. 13 



(1767). 

 Scop. Ent. Cam. 130, 379 (1763). 



CIMEX QUISQUILITJS, De G. Mem. iii, 281, 25, 1. 15, figs. 19 (1773). 



EEDTJVITJS PZRSONATTJS, Wolff, Ic. Cim. 79, 76, t. 8, fig. 76 (1801); lab. 

 S. R. 276, 7 (1803) ; Fall. Hem. Suec. 156, 1 

 (1829) ; Curt. B. E. x, 453 (1833) ; Hahn t 

 Wauz. ii, 17, t. 39, fig. 125 (1834); Bum. 

 Handb. ii, 235, 1 (1835) ; Am. et Serv. Hem. 

 337, 1 (1843); Flor, Rhyn. Liv. i, 679, 1 

 (1860) ; Fieb. Europ. Hem. 155, 1 (1861). 



Fuscous or piceous-brown ; head, anterior part of the pronotum, 

 scutellum, and thighs, blackish or black ; tibia yellow at base and 

 apex. Legs with fine prominent hairs. Membrane- suture with 

 a whitish line, 



Head black, with fine projecting hairs. Face; central lobe 



