NABIILE. 555 



rower to the middle ; nerves pale ; Membrane paler than the corium ; 

 nerves fuscous. Sternum black, sides yellow ; Prosternwn round the 

 COXSQ, Meso- and Mietasternum, outside the coxae, ochreous. Legs 

 ochreous, with fine whitish hairs ; coxa with a large black spot at 

 the base ; thighs with rows of large brown spots, the underside of 

 1st and 2nd pairs with fine transverse lines ; 1st pair with a broad 

 black stripe on the inner side ; 2nd piceous or blackish at the end ; 

 3rd black on the last 3rd ; tibice with a fuscous spot below the base 

 arid at the apex; tarsi; base of the 2nd joint, base and apex of the 

 3rd, and the clmvs, piceous. 



Abdomen above, black, shining, without hairs ; beneath black, 

 slightly shining, with fine whitish hairs, the middle and sides 

 ochreous; stigmata black ; Connexivwn ochreous. Genital segments ; 

 margins ochreous. 



Length, 3-J 4 lines. 



Common from July to October, under bushes, plants, and field 

 refuse. 



Species 6. NABIS FERUS. 



CIMEX FERUS, Lin. F. S. 9G2 (1761) ; S. N. 731, 108 (1767). 



Minis Fab. S. 11. 255, 11 (1803) ; Fall. Hem. Suec. 133, 9 (1829). 



VAGANS, Fab. S. R. 255, 12 (1803) ; Wolff, Ic. Cim. 153, t. 16, 



fig. 153 (1804). 



NABIS Harm. Handb. ii, 242, 1 (1835) ; Scholtz. Arb. u. Veraud. 

 112, 1 (1846). 



FEKUS, Hahn, Wanz. iii, 31, t. 83, fig. 252 (1835) ; Am. et Sen. 



Hem, 332, 3 (1843) ; Flor, Rhyn. Liv. i, 698, 4 (1860) ; 

 Fieb. Europ. Hem. 161, 9 (1861). 



Pale ochreous, dull, with very fine, short, pale hairs. Head with a 

 black line down the centre ; sides with a black spot before and 

 behind the eyes. Pronotum on the first f rds yellow-brown, with 

 a strong, black, central line ; hinder 3rd much widened. Scu- 

 tcllum black, sides yellow. Elytra much longer than the abdo- 

 men ; davits with a black spot at the apex ; corium with 2 black 

 spots 011 the 1st nerve, and 1 on the membrane-suture ; mem- 

 Iraiie pale, the nerves fuscous. Legs with longitudinal rows of 

 small black or brown spots, narrow and perceptibly transverse 

 on the 2nd pair of thighs. Abdomen black, beneath yellow in 

 the middle, with a central black line ; connexivwn paje pchreous. 



