430 HEMIPTERA. 



5. MET A POD jus femoratus. 



Lygseus femoratus, Fab. E. S. iv. 137. 10 (1794) * S. R. 205. 10 

 (1803) ; Wolff, Ic. dm. 193. t. 19. fig. 189 (181 1). 



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

 day, Esq. 



b. Venezuela. From Mr. Dyson's Collection. 



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



6. METAPODIUS angustipes. 



Metapodius angustipes, Hope, Cat. 15 (1842). 



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



7. METAPODIUS granulosus, n. s. 



M. praecedentibus affinis ; thorace granuloso, angulis prominen- 

 tibus subacutis; scutello apice fulvo; antennis pallide cas- 

 taneis, articulo ultimo subfulvo, elongate, o ? . 

 Long. lin. ll. 



Above dark brown, opaque. Thorax with the lateral margins 

 denticulated, the lateral angles prominent, subacute, the surface 

 with numerous acute tubercles, the interstices between which are 

 very finely punctured and clothed with very short yellowish hairs. 

 Scutellum clothed with short yellowish hairs ; the apex with a 

 small orange tubercle. Coriaceous portion of the elytra thickly 

 and finely punctured and clothed with very short yellowish hairs ; 

 the nervures slightly elevated, smooth ; membrane brown. Body 

 beneath dark brown, somewhat opaque, with scattered yellowish 

 hairs ; antepectus covered with small tubercles. Four anterior 

 thighs brown ; tibiae and tarsi paler ; claws black ; posterior 

 thighs in the male thick, thickest in the middle, covered with 

 acute tubercles and spines, and with a large spine on the lower 

 margin behind the middle ; in the female thinner, somewhat 

 clavate with several rows of spinous tubercles, and a row of 

 strong teeth along the under side ; posterior tibiae in the male 

 compressed and dilated, especially towards the base of the outer 

 margin, faintly emarginate a little before the middle and gradu- 

 ally narrowed to the apex ; inner margin and apex of the outer 

 margin irregularly denticulated; in the female broadly dilated 

 towards the base, becoming narrower towards the extremity; the 

 outer margin broadl^emarginate in the middle, the dilated por- 

 tion of the inner margin finishing rather before the middle, the 

 remainder with a few denticulations ; posterior tarsi of the same 

 colour as the others. Rostrum brown. Antennae reddish brown, 

 with the last joint rather paler. 



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



