250 Van Duzee: Catalogue of Hemiptera [ 744 ~ 



Banks, Cat. Nearc. Hemip., p. 18, 1910. 



Localities: Texas (?), Ariz.(?) (Banks). (Brazil.) 



744. Spiniger arizonica Banks 

 Banks, Ent. News, xxi, p. 324, 1910. 

 Locality: Ariz. 



Subfamily PIRATINAE (Am. & Serv.) 



Amyot and Serville, Hemip., pp. xlii, 321, 1843, Groupe Piratides. 

 Stal, Berl. Ent. Zeit., iii, p. 328, 1859, Peiratida. 

 Dohrn, Cat. Hemip., p. 50, 1859, Piratidae. 

 Stal, Hemip. Afr., iii, pp. 44, 112, 1865, Piratida. 

 Stal, Of. Vet. Akad. Forh., xxiii, p. 250, 1866, Piratida. 

 Stal, Hemip. Fabr., i, p. 120, 1868, Piratida. 



Stal, Of. Vet. Akad. Forh., xxix, No. 6, pp. 43, 46, 1872, Piratina. 

 Stal, Enum. Hemip., ii, pp. 66, 104, 1872; iv, pp. 4, 56, 1874, Piratina. 

 Uhler, Check List, p. 25, 1886, Piratina. 



Lethierry and Severin, Cat. G6nl. Hemip., iii, p. 120, 1896, Pirati- 

 Champion, Biol. Centr. Am., Heter., ii, p. 211, 1899, Pirai 

 Distant, Fauna Br. Ind., Rhyn., ii, p. 290, 1904. 

 Oshanin, Verz. Palae. Hemip., i, p. 534, 1908, Piratina. 

 Banks, Cat. Nearc. Hemip., p. 18, 1910, Pirati ni. 

 Oshanin, Kat. Palae. Hemip., p. 51, IDlL'. Pim' 

 Fracker, Proc. la. Acad. Sci., xix, p. 220, 1913, Piratinae. 



Genus Melanolestes Stal 

 Logotype piripes H. S. 



Stal, Of. Vet. Akad. Forh., xxiii, pp. 251, 259, 1866. 



Stal, Enum. Hemip., ii, pp. 105, 107, 1872; iv, p. 60, 1874 (as subgen. of 

 Provancher, Pet. Faune Ent. Can., iii, p. 183, 1887. [Pirate*). 



Champion, Biol. Centr. Am., Heter., ii, p. 213, 1899. 

 Fracker, Proc. la. Acad. Sci., xix, p. 220, 1913. 



745. Melanolestes picipes (H. S.) 



Herrich-Schaeffer, Wanz. Ins., viii, p. 62, 1848, Pirates. 

 Stal, Of. Vet. Akad. Forh., xxiii, p. 259, 1866. 

 Stal, Enum. Hemip., ii, p. 107, 1872. 



Uhler, Hayden's Surv. Terr., Kept, for 1871, p. 421, 1872. 

 Walker, Cat. Heter., vii, p. 97, 1873, Pirates. 

 Uhler, Bui. U. S. Geol. Geog. Surv., i, p. 330, 1876. 

 Uhler, Wheeler's Rept. Chief Eng. for 1877, p. 1330. 

 Uhler, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., xix, p. 424, 1878. 

 Uhler, Stand. Nat. Hist., ii, p. 281, 1884. 

 Provancher, Pet. Faune Ent. Can., iii, p. 183, 1887. 

 Lintner, 4th Rept. N. Y. St. Ent., p. 109, 1888. 

 Uhler, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., Ser. 2, iv, p. 284, 1894. 

 Bueno and Brimley, Ent. News, xvii, p. 437, 1907. 

 Bueno, Jl. N. Y. Ent. Soc., xvi, p. 235, 1908. 

 Smith, Cat. Ins. N. J., edn. 3, p. 154, 1910. 

 Fracker, Proc. la. Acad. Sci., xix, p. 233, 1913. 

 Barber, Bui. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., xxxiii, p. 505, 1914. 



pungens Leconte, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., vii, p. 404, 1856, Beduvius. 

 Localities: Quebec, Me., Mass., N. Y., N. J., Pa., Del., Va., N. C., 

 Ga., Ala., Fla., La., 111., Texas, N. Mex., Okl., Calif. 



