NABIDJ5. 549 



the 6 tli segment, in both sexes, with its posterior margin concave 

 and the angles prominent ; Connexivwi very broad and greatly 

 reflexed. 



Species 1. NABIS BREVIPENNIS. 



NABIS BEEVIPENNIS, Hahn, Wauz. iii, 32, t. 83, fig. 253 (1835) ; Flor, 

 flhyn. Liv. i, 694, 1 (1860) ; Fieb. Europ. Hem. 

 159, 1 (1861). 



Black ; clothed with fine silky pale yellowish hairs ; pronotum an- 

 teriorly and posteriorly, and the elytra, dull, yellow-brown ; 

 elytra very short. 



Head yellow-brown, sometimes with dark shades, beneath black. 

 Antennce yellow-brown ; 1st joint as long as the head, black at base 

 and apex ; 2nd black just below the apex ; 3rd and 4th brown. Eyes 

 and Ocelli black. Rostrum yellow-brown. 



Thorax. Pronotum yellow-brown, anteriorly and posteriorly 

 generally clear, in the middle shaded with brown, and with a short, 

 slight, longitudinal keel ; sides black, in the middle slightly curved 

 out ; posterior margin straight. Scutellum deep black, sometimes 

 yellow on the sides. Elytra narrow, ^ the length of the abdomen ; 

 Clavus and Corium yellow-brown ; Membrane paler, sometimes mot- 

 tled with brown, very short, and with only 2 short cells. Sternum 

 black, the odoriferous orifice large, prominent, yellow. Legs with 

 very fine, subappressed, yellowish hairs ; thighs brown, mottled with 

 yellow ; tibia yellow, base and apex broadly black or black-brown ; 

 1st and 2nd pairs, in the middle, with a broad, brown ring, some- 

 times also, but fainter, on the 3rd pair ; the last on the inner side 

 have 2 rows of stout, brownish hairs ; tarsi yellow, base and apex of 

 the 2nd joint, apex of the 3rd, and the claws, black-brown. 



Abdomen in the $ with the sides more parallel than in the $ ; 

 above black, shining ; Connexivum ; at the base of each segment a 

 triangular orange spot. Underside shining, brown shaded with 

 black ; stigmata orange. 



Length, 4 lines. 



Scarce : taken by Mr. Gr. E. Crotch ; locality not stated. 



