560 HEMIPTERA. 



with an indistinct whitish patch on the disc, towards the base ; 

 the inner basal angle and the nervures very dark brown. Abdo- 

 men beneath black, shining, but clothed with a pale pubescence. 

 Breast blackish, punctured ; antepectus testaceous, with a black- 

 ish patch on each side ; the posterior margin of the other two 

 segments pale. Thighs brown ; tibiae and tarsi brownish testa- 

 ceous, the latter brown at the tip. Rostrum brown, with the 

 basal joint blackish. Antennae pale brown, with the basal and 

 apical joints darker. 



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

 day, Esq. 



5. APHANUS clavatus, n. s. 



A. supra griseo-testaceus, fusco-punctatus ; capite, thoracisque 

 lobo antico, nigris ; antennis valde clavatis, articulis 2 ultimis 

 nigris. $ . 

 Long. lin. 1^. 



Head pitchy, impunctate. Anterior lobe of the thorax convex, 

 black, impunctate ; posterior lobe greyish testaceous, punctured 

 with brown. Scutellum pitchy brown, with an elevated pale line 

 down the middle. Coriaceous portion of the elytra greyish tes- 

 taceous, rather thickly punctured with brown ; membrane brown- 

 ish, with pale nervures. Body beneath brown ; antepectus black, 

 with the posterior margin yellowish. Legs yellow. Rostrum 

 yellow. Antennae clavate, with the first two joints yellow ; third 

 joint very thick, black ; fourth joint a little thinner than the third, 

 pitchy. 



a. New Orleans. From Mr. Children's Collection. 



Genus 8. RHYPAROCHROMUS. 



Cimex, p., Linn. F. S. (1761) <$ S. N. i. (1767); DeG. Mem. iii. 



(1773); Rossi, F. E. ii. (1790). 

 Lygseus, p., Fab. Ent. Syst. iv. (1794) fy Syst. Eh. (1803); Fall. 



Mon. dm. (1807) # Hem. Suec. (1829); Zett. F. Ins. Lapp. 



(1832) $ Ins. Lapp. (1840). 

 Pachym^rus, LeP. fy Serv. Enc. x. (1825); SMIL Beitr. i. 



(1829); Hahn, Wanz. i. 37 (1831); H. Sch. Norn. Ent. i. 



(1835) $ Wanz. ix. (1850); Burm. Handb. ii. (1835); Ramb. 



F. And.'ii. (1841?); Kol. Mel Ent. ii. (1845). 

 Microtoma et Aphanus, Lap. Hem. 33 & 35 (1832). 

 Rhyparochromus, Curt. Brit. Ent. xiii. 612 (1836). 

 Apnanus, p., Spin. Hem. (1837). 

 Polyacanthus, Rhyparochromus, Beosus, Plociomerus et Ptero- 



tmetus, Amyot fy Serv. Hem. 252-256 (1843). 



