HEMIPTERA. 427 



13. NEMATOPUS punctiger, n. s. 



N. fuscus, subopacus ; elytris flavo-nervosis, disco nervo trans - 

 verso; abdominis disco marginibusque flavis, lateribus late 

 badiis, puncto utrinque in singulo segmento flavo. ? . 

 Long. lin. 9. 



Above dark brown. Head testaceous, smooth and shining. 

 Thorax rather thickly and finely punctured, with the postero- 

 lateral margins yellow. Scutellum obsoletely punctured, with 

 the margins yellow. Coriaceous portion of the elytra thickly and 

 finely punctured, with the nervures smooth, elevated, yellow, the 

 inner branch of the submarginal nervure united to the longitu- 

 dinal nervure of the disc \yy a short transverse nervure ; mem- 

 brane transparent, brownish. Abdomen beneath bright bay, with 

 the disc, the lateral margins, and a small elevated point on each 

 side of each segment yellow. Breast pale brown, opaque. Thighs 

 chestnut-brown ; tibiae and tarsi fulvous. Rostrum and antenna- 

 reddish brown. 



a. Columbia. From M. Goudot's Collection. 



Genus 22. METAPODIUS. 



Lygseus, p., Fab. Ent. Syst. iv. (17-94) fy Syst. Eh. (1803). 

 Acanthocephala, Lap. Hem. 29 (1832); Spin. Hem. 138 (1837). 

 Diactor, Burnt. Handb. ii. 333 (1835). 

 Metapodius, Westw. Hope's Cat. (1842). 

 Metopodus, Am. fy Serv. Hem. 192 (1843). 

 Metopodius, H. Sch. Wanz. ix. 239 (1850) & 257 (1851); Spin. 

 Tav. Sin. Hem. 42 (1850). 



1. METAPODIUS latipes. 



Cimex latipes, Drury, Ins. iii. 63. pi. 45. fig. 3 (1782). 



Lygseus compressipes, Fab. S. R. 209. 24 (1803). 



Diactor compressipes, Eurm. Handb. ii. 334. 1 (1835); H. Sch. 



Wanz. iii. 93. t. 103. fig. 317. ? (1836). 

 Metopodus latipes, Am. fy Serv. Hem. 193. 1 (1843). 

 Stoll, Pun. 16. pi. 2. fig. 14. 



a. Brazil. Presented by General Thomas Hardwicke. 



b. Brazil. From Mr. Children's Collection. 



c. Brazil. From M. Mornay's Collection. 



d. Brazil. 



2. METAPODIUS albicollis, n. s. 



M. supra saturate fuscus, pilis brevibus luteis plus minusve ves- 

 titus; thorace granuloso, antice albo, humeris prominentibus 

 acutis, denticulatis ; corpore subtus fulvo-fusco ; pedibus 4 



