418 HEMIPTERA. 



somewhat rugose, with the lateral angles very prominent and 

 acute, black; the anterior portion with several small elevated 

 whitish points ; anterior portion of the lateral margins minutely 

 and distantly denticulated. Scutellum rugose-punctate, with the 

 tip yellow. Coriaceous portion of the elytra thickly and finely 

 punctured, with a large irregular yellow patch at the apex ; mem- 

 brane semitransparent, brownish. Abdomen above red, thickly 

 and finely punctured, with the margins black ; abdomen beneath 

 dark brown, somewhat opaque, with the margins iinpunctate, and 

 an interrupted raised line on each side within the line of stig- 

 mata; the second and third segments with three small black 

 points on each side at the base. Breast rather paler than the ab- 

 domen, opaque, punctured ; with the sternum and the neighbour- 

 hood of the coxae darker, and with an irregular row of small 

 whitish tubercles on each side. Anterior and intermediate thighs 

 deep brown ; tibiae and tarsi reddish ; posterior legs with the in- 

 ner surface both of the thighs and tibiae black or blackish, the 

 outer surface dark reddish brown ; thighs much thickened, with 

 two rows of small tubercles on the upper surface, and a double 

 row of spines beneath, of which those about the middle of the 

 thigh are of moderate size, the remainder very small ; tibiae com- 

 pressed, slightly incurved at the middle, with a large tooth at the 

 middle of the inner margin, the remainder of the inner margin 

 denticulated, with two larger teeth ; tarsi reddish brown. An- 

 tennae black, with the apical joint and a line along the under side 

 of the other joints deep fulvous. 



The specimen of the female is of a very dark variety, nearly 

 black. The thighs are blackish brown, the tibiae paler brown, 

 the inside of the posterior tibiae black ; posterior thighs with two 

 rows of indistinct elevations above, and two rows of small spines 

 beneath ; posterior tibiae denticulated on the inner margin and 

 with three larger teeth. 



a. Honduras. From Mr. Dyson's Collection. 



8. ARCHIMERUS lineolatus. 



Archimerus lineolatus, H.Sch. Wanz. vi. 25. 1. 188. fig. 581 (1842). 

 a. Mexico. Presented by E. P. Coffin, Esq. 



9. ARCHIMERUS? dilatatus, n. s. 



A. luridus, opacus, subtus obscurior ; abdominis marginibus valde 

 dilatatis, spinosis ; ventre tuberculis 2 vel 4 albidis. 3 $ . 

 Long. lin. 8. 



Brownish testaceous, thickly and finely punctured with brown. 

 Anterior portion of the thorax rough, hairy, with the lateral mar- 

 gins toothed, the lateral angles acutely spinous. Coriaceous por- 



