524 HEMIPTERA. 



on its anterior portion. Scutellum with the apex white. Ner- 

 vures of the coriaceous portion of the elytra pale, spotted with 

 hrown or black ; membrane livid, clouded with black, closely re- 

 ticulated in the female, more widely in the male. Margins of the 

 abdomen banded with black or brown and fulvous. Abdomen 

 beneath pale fulvous, thickly and finely punctured with brown, 

 the disc in the male with an irregular black band, in the female 

 with two rows of black points ; the basal vulvar plates in the 

 female reaching to the extremity of the apical plates. Breast 

 concolorous, with a whitish band on each side, which in the male 

 is bordered externally with black ; disc of the mesosternum black. 

 Thighs concolorous, thickly covered with black or brown points, 

 which are so united on the inside of the hinder thighs as to render 

 them black. Tibia3 and tarsi testaceous, the latter brown at the 

 apex. Rostrum testaceous, with the tip black. Antenna? with the 

 basal joint brownish, somewhat granulose, punctured with black ; 

 second and third joints brownish testaceous, punctured with brown ; 

 apical joint black, with its base brownish. 



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



2. MARGUS pallipes, n. s. 



M. praecedenti affinis; pedibus fulvis sine punctis fuscis; sterno 

 immaculato ; elytrorum membrana nigricanti. ? . 

 Long. lin. 3|. 



Above brownish grey, very thickly and finely punctured with 

 brown. Thorax with an indistinct whitish longitudinal line. 

 Scutellum with the apex white. Nervures of the coriaceous por- 

 tion of the elytra whitish, spotted with reddish brown ; membrane 

 blackish brown." Margins of the abdomen fulvous, banded with 

 brown. Abdomen beneath fulvous, with a reddish band down 

 each side ; the sides thickly and finely punctured with brown ; 

 basal vulvar plates in the female very small. Breast greenish, 

 thickly and finely punctured, spotted with pale yellow and red. 

 Legs fulvous, indistinctly spotted with red. Rostrum pale fulvous, 

 with the tip black. Antenna? with the first two joints somewhat 

 ferruginous ; third joint whitish ; fourth joint black. 

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



Genus 5. MACCEVETHUS. 



Lygaeus, p., Fab. Ent. Syst. iv. (1794). 



Cbreus, p., Fab. Syst. Eh. (1803). 



Myrmus, p.?, Hahn, Wanzl'm. (1835). 



Rhopalus, p., H. Sch. Norn. Ent. i. 35 & 42 (1835). 



Coryzus, Spin. Hem. 224 (1837). 



Corizus, p., H. Sch. Wanz. vi. (1842) ; Kolen.Mel. Ent. ii. (1845). 



