HEMIPTERA. 41/ 



with the tip blackish. Antennae with the first three joints 

 black, clothed with minute white hairs, and with a pale fulvous 

 line running along them beneath ; apical joint fulvous, 

 a. Columbia. From Dr. Cuming's Collection. 



6. ARCHIMERUS affinis. 



A. lunato etiam valde affinis, differt thoracis angulis minus pro- 

 minentibus, concoloribus ; pedibus posticis magis elongatis, 

 minus incrassatis. 

 Long. lin. 10. 



Above reddish brown, somewhat opaque, thickly and rather 

 finely punctured. Head pale, with the disc blackish. Thorax 

 flatter than in A. lunatus, and with the lateral angles less pro- 

 duced and concolorous with the rest of the thorax ; somewhat 

 rugose, with two minute whitish tubercles near the anterior mar- 

 gin and the anterior portion of the lateral margins denticulated. 

 Scutellum punctured with black, with a spot in each basal angle 

 and the tip yellow. Membrane of the elytra blackish brown. 

 Wings brown, with the basal portion of the anterior margin red. 

 Abd'jmen above black, with a yellow spot on the sutures between 

 the third and fourth and fourth and fifth segments ; margins of 

 the first three segments yellows those of the fourth, fifth and sixth 

 banded with yellow and black, the basal portion being yellow. 

 Abdomen beneath yellow, somewhat opaque ; disc impunctate ; 

 sides coarsely and irregularly punctured, with an elevated line 

 down each side within the stigmata ; anal plate orange-red ; stig- 

 mata and three points on each side of the base of the second and 

 third segments within the elevated line black. Breast fulvous, 

 thickly punctured, and with a few small tubercles on each side. 

 Legs fulvous, with the thighs darkest ; posterior thighs reddish, 

 with a black band above, and with a few black spines beneath, 

 of which the middle pair are the largest ; inner surface of the 

 posterior tibiae black, fulvous at the tip, outer surface reddish 

 fulvous; tarsi fulvous. Rostrum brownish. Antennae black, 

 with the last joint and a line along the under side of the other 

 three joints fulvous. 



a. Mexico. Presented by J. T aylor, Esq. 



7. ARCHIMERUS luridus, n. s. 



A. praecedentibus affinis, fusous vel nigro-fuscus, punctatus ; 

 scutelli apice, maculaque apicali corii elytrorum, flavis ; abdo- 

 minis marginibus nigris. <? ? . 

 Long. lin. 8-8J. 



Male : Brown, somewhat opaque. Head with a few pale 

 yellow tubercles about the eyes. Thorax thickly punctured and. 



