CATALOGUE 



OF 



HE3IIPTEEA HETEEOPTEBA. 



PAET VIII. 



Genus 6. OPINUS. 



Tapeinus, De Lap. Hem. 81 — Opit,us, De Lap. Hem. Suppl. Scrr. Hut. 

 Hem. 338 — Tapinus, Burm. Handb. Ent. ii. 236. 



America. 



Dir. 1. 



Tbymbreus, Stal, Ofv. K. V. AJ:. Fork. xrii. 155. 



The two following species were inserted in Pt. VII., p. 132. as 

 Pacbynomi. 



1. Opinus pvkbhoptercs. 



Opinus pyrrhopterus. Stal. Rio Jan. Hem. 72 — Tbymbreus pyrrbopterus, 

 Stal', Ofv. K. Vet. Ak. Fork. xrii. 186. 



Brazil. 



2. OPISUS CROCINOPTEFaS. 



Tbymbreus crocinopterus, Stal, Stett. Ent. Zeit. xxiii. 457. 

 Mexico. 



3. Opinus pygjleis. 



Fulrus, fere linearis; caput prolhoracis lobo antico paullo longius ; 

 antennarum arliculus '2us piceus. Sus Ausque : prothoracis 



lobus anticus lobo posticn rix brcrior, antice bi tuber cula tus ; femora 

 antica robusta, tubtus ipinulosa ; ahz anlica nigra bast fulva. 



Tawny, nearly linear. Head small, short, a little longer than the 

 fore lobe of the prolhorax : ante-ocular part a little shorter than the post- 

 ocular. Anlenns longer than the head and the prolhorax together ; first 

 joint as long as the ante-ocular head ; second piceous, stout, twice as long 

 as the first T third and fourth testaceous, very slender; third much shorter 

 than the second ; fourth as long as tie iLird. Prolhorax with a j . 

 longitudinal furrow. Fore lobe nearly as long as the bind lobe, with a 



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