554 REDUVINA. 



Species 5. NABIS FLAVOMARGINATUS. 



NAIHS FLAVOMAB.GINATA, ScJwlz. Arb. u. Yerand. 114, 6 (1S4G). 



FLAVOMARGINATUS, Flor, Rhyn. Liv. i, GOG, 3 (I860) ; Fieb. Europ. 



Hem. 161, 5 (1861). 



DORSATUS, Dahlb. Yet. Akad. Handl. 227 (1850). 



NEKVOSUS, Bohem. Yet. Akad. Forh. 77, 35 (1852). 



Above fusco-ochreous. Head with a broad, central, black line. Pro- 

 notum ; middle and sides with a black line. Scutellum black ; 

 sides pale ochreous. Elytra': cerium ; anterior margin on the 

 basal -J pale ochreous, nerves pale ; membrane paler than the 

 corium, with strong fuscous nerves. Thighs with rows of large 

 brown spots ; 1st and 2nd pairs beneath with transverse lines ; 

 1st pair with a broad black stripe down the inner side ; 2nd 

 piceous at the end; 3rd black on the last 3rd. Abdomen 

 above, black ; beneath, the middle, and sides ochreous. 



Head with prominent whitish hairs ; the centre with a broad black 

 line, widening to the front, extending from the base to the front of 

 the clypeus, passing between the ocelli, and leaving a narrow yellow 

 line on the sides; behind the eyes black; antenniferous processes 

 black, shining, the apex yellow ; Face / central lobe black ; a yellow 

 spot at the end of the side lobes. Underside black, the middle 

 and sides yellow. Antenna yellow-brown ; apex of 3rd joint, and 

 4th and 5th entirely, piceous. Eyes and Ocelli piceous. Rostrum 

 yellow-brown ; 1st joint black on the middle and sides ; 2nd with a 

 brown line. 



Thorax. Pronotum with fine, short, whitish hairs ; sides, beyond 

 the annulus, gradually widening in a curve to the constriction ; 

 centre and sides with a broad black line, the central one continued 

 narrowly on the posterior 3rd, previously, at the transverse depres- 

 sion, giving out on each side, at a right angle, a short, stout, black 

 line, at the end of which is a smooth space, bounded (except pos- 

 teriorly) by an impressed narrow line, which is sometimes black ; 

 side margins narrowly ochreous; posterior 3rd wide and convex, 

 paler than the rest, with 2 or 3 fuscous lines on each side of the 

 central line. Scutellum black, sides with an ochreous spot gradually 

 narrower to the apex. Elytra as long as the abdomen, fusco-ochreous ; 

 Corium; anterior margin with an ochreous stripe, gradually nar* 



