128 HEMIPTERA. 



near the anterior margin; lateral margins edged with white. 

 Scutellum and coriaceous portion of the elytra thickly and finely 

 punctured, the latter with the outer margin narrowly edged with 

 white, and with a small, crescent-shaped white spot on the api- 

 cal margin ; membrane blackish brown, opaque, with the margin 

 pale. Abdomen edged with white, except on the three basal seg- 

 ments; beneath deep shining black, with the disc impunctate, 

 the sides very thickly and finely punctured. Breast black, thickly 

 and finely punctured. Legs black ; the tibiae with a white streak 

 on the outside. Rostrum pitchy. Antennae black, with the se- 

 cond joint red or pitchy red. 



a. St. John's Bluff, E. Florida. Presented by E. Double- 



day, Esq. 



b. N. America. From Lieut. Redman's Collection. 



3. SEHIRUS melaleucus. 



Cimex melaleucus, Thunb. Nov. Ins. Sp. 50 (1783). 



a. Cape of Good Hope. From M. Drege's Collection. 



4. SEHIRUS morio. 



Cimex morio, Linn. S. N. i. 722. 51 (1767) ; Fab. E. S. iv. 1 

 171 (1794); Wolff, Ic. dm. 67. t. 7. fig. 64 (1801). 



Cydnus morio, Fab. S. R. 184. 3 (1803); Panz. F. G. 32. 15; 

 Fall. Mon. dm. 52. 1 (1807) $ Hem. Suec. 18. 1 (1829); 

 Hahn, Wanz. i. 163. t. 25. fig. 84 [C. nigrita] (1831) ; H. Sch 

 Nom. Ent. i. 54 & 90 (1835) ; Burm. Handb. ii. 3?5. 6 (1835) ; 

 Ramb. F. And. ii. 112. 3 (1841?). 



Pentatoma morio, Le P. fy Serv. Enc. x. 58 (1825). 



Sehirus morio, Am. Serv. Hem. 96. 1 (1843); Sahib. Geoc 

 Fenn. 20. 1 (1848). 



Cydnus, Amyot, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 2 me ser. iii. 426. 34 (1845). 



a. Italy. 



b. France. 



c. England. 



5. SEHIRUS albomarginatus. 



Cimex albomarginatus, Fab. E. S. iv. 123. 168 (1794) fy S. 



179. 121 (1803); Panz. F. G. 33. 20; Wolff, Ic. dm. 65. t.7. 



fig. 62(1801). 

 Cydnus albomarginatus, Hahn, Wanz. i. 167. t. 26. fig. 86 (1831); 



H. Sch. IVom. Ent. 54 & 90 (1835); Burm. Handb. ii. 375. - 



(1835) ; Ramb. Faun. And. ii. 111. 2 (1841?); Kolen. Mel. Ent. 



iv. 66. 194 (1846). 



Sehirus albomarginatus, Am. fy Serv. Hem. 97. 4 (1843). 

 Hemizonus, Amyot, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 2 me ser. iii. 431. 42(1845). 

 Geoff. Ins. I 470. 72. 

 a. England. 



