560 CATALOGUE OF 



Cataulax CENTRALIS. 



Niger, flavo con spersus, sparse el subtililer punctatus, subtus ferruginevsi 

 caput utrinque subrugulosum, lateribus subrejlexis ; thorax transverse 

 bisulcatus ; scutellum disco antemedio vix consperso ; venlris discus 

 futvus ; pedes fulvi, nigro conspersi ; membrana fusca. 



Black, elliptical, thinly and minutely punctured, thinly and irregularly 

 speckled with yellow, ferruginous beneath. Head slightly reflexed on each 

 side; lobes of equal length ; lateral lobes slightly and transversely rugulose. 

 Eyes piceous, prominent. Rostrum tawny, extending somewhat beyond the 

 hind coxa;; tip black. Antenna? black; second joint very much shorter 

 than the third. Thorax with two slight transverse furrows ; the first abbre- 

 viated, very near the fore border; hind angles rounded, not prominent. 

 Scutellum with the disk near the base almost without speckles, broad and 

 rounded at the tip. Abdomen beneath tawny in the disk; third, fourth 

 aud fifth segments retracted towards the base. Legs tawny, speckled with 

 black ; tarsi blackish. Fore wings not covering the sides of the abdomen • 

 membrane brown. Length of the body 5 lines. 



a. St. Paulo. From Mr. Bates' collection. 



MGIVS .EREUS. 



a, b. Brazil. Presented by W. W. Saunders, Esq. 



Page 357. 

 Rhaphigaster Sarpinus. 

 Cimex pensylvauicus, Deg. — Pentatoma hilaris, Say. 



Rhaphigastek marginatum. 

 Pentatoma ligata, Say, Ent. N. Amer. i. 315. Fitch, 3rd Report, Ins. 7L 



Page 358. 



Rhaphigaster fasciatus. 



Plilarmus fasciatus, Uagl. Stetl. Ent. Zeit. xxix. 156. 



Mexico. 



Rhaphigaster pulchellus. 



Cimex pulchella, Drury, Ins. iii. pi. 46, f. 8. Stall, Pun. pi. 5, f. 30; 

 pl.2l,f. 142 — Cimex concentrica, Klug,Burm. Hem. 365,5. Pharypia 

 pulchella, Slal, Stelt. Ent. Zeit. xxii. 140. 



Mexico. Honduras. Guiana. Para. 



Page 364. 

 Rhaphigaster parvuluh. 

 parvulus, Sign. Arch. Ent. ii. 281) (Nomen bis lectum). 

 Old Calabar. 



