76 CATALOG UK OP 



Genus 2. PRIONOTUS. 



Prionotus, De Lap. Hem. 8. Serv. Hist. Hem. 356. 



A Tips of fore femora pale. 



a. Tips of four posterior femora dark. 



* Abdomen much beyond the fore wings on each side. - serratus. 



** Abdomen hardly beyond the fore wings on each side. mundus. 



b. Tips of four posterior femora pale. ... xanthopus. 

 B. Tips of fore femora dark. 



a. Lateral spines of the hind lobe of the prothorax directed 



outward. ------ novenarius. 



b. Lateral spines of the hind lobe of the prothorax directed 



hiudward. .... - patulus. 



I. Prionotus cristatus. 



, Stall, Pun. 12, pi. 1, f. 6 — Cimex cristatus, Linn. Amccn. vi. 399 — 



Cimex carinatus, Drury, Ins. ii. 68, pi. 36, f. 6 — Reduvius serratus, 

 Fabr. Syst. Rhyn. 266. St. Farg. et Serv. Enc. x. 277, pi. 124, f. 31 

 — Arilus serratus, Hahn, Wans. Ins. i. 33, pi. 6, f. 22. Burnt. 

 Handb. Ent. ii. 228— Zelus serratus, Blanch. Hist. Nat. Ins. iii. 102. 

 (Prionotus serratus) Hem. pi. 2, f. 2— Prionotus cristatus, Serv. Hist. 

 Hem. 357. 



a. Tejuca. Presented by Mrs. R. Bennett. 



b. Rio Janeiro. Presented by J. Gray, Esq. 



c. Brazil. Presented by W. W. Saunders, Esq. 



d. e. Brazil. 



2. Prionotus novenarius. 



Reduvius novenarius. Say, Works ed. Leconle, i. 71 — Nabis novenarius, 

 Say, Works ed. Leconle, i. 353. 



a. Canada. Presented by Dr. Barnston. 



b, c. United Stales. Pre.senied by W. YV. Saunders, Esq. 

 d, e. United Slates. Presented by F. Walker, Esq. 



3. Prionotus stramineus. 

 Arilus stramineus, H.-Sch. Wanz. vi. 92, pi. 210, f. 6C3. 

 South America? 



4. Prionotus depressicollis. 

 dcpressicollis, Stal, Ofv. K. Vet. Ak. Fork. xvi. 196. 

 Mexico. 



6. PlUONOTUS PATUI.US. 



Fccm. Niger, cinereo lomenlosus; antenna picea ; coriutn ferrugineum ; 

 membrana cinereo-futca. 



