~ 748 ] Reduviidae 251 



746. Melanolestes afodominalis (II. S.) 



Herrich-Schaeffer, Wanz. Ins., viii, p. 63, fig. 832, 1848, Pirates. 

 Stal, Enum. Hemip., ii, p. 107, 1872 (as var. of picipes). 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 Champion, Biol. Centr. Am., Heter., ii, p. 214, 1899. 

 Barber, Brookl. Inst., Sci. Bui., i, p. 284, 1906. 

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

 Smith, Cat. Ins. N. J., edn. 3, p. 155, 1910. 

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



Localities: N. Y., N. J., Pa., Md., N. C., Okl., Texas, N. Mex., Calif. 



Genus Rasahus Am. & Serv. 

 Logotype sulcicollis Serv. 



Amyot and Serville, Hemip., p. 325, 1843. 



Stal, Enum. Hemip., ii, p. 105, 1872. 



Walker, Cat. Heter., vii, p. 47, 1873. 



Champion, Biol. Centr. Am., Heter., ii, p. 214, 1899. 



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



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



Walker, Cat. Heter., vii, pp. 85, 98, 1873. [albomaculatus Goeze). 



Sphodrocoris Stal, Of. Vet. Akad. Forh., xxiii, pp. 251, 261, 1866 (type 



Walker, Cat. Heter., vii, pp. 85, 98, 1873. [maculipennis Lep. & Serv.). 



747. Rasahus biguttatus (Say) 



Say, Ins. La., p. 13, 1832; Compl. Writ., i, p. 307, PetalocJieirus. 

 Say, Heter. N. Harm., p. 33, 1832; Fitch reprint, p. 803; Compl. Writ., i, p. 

 Stal, Stet. Ent. Zeit., xxiii, p. 457, 1862, Pirates. [358, PetalocJieirus. 



Stal, Of. Vet. Akad. Forh., xxiii, p. 258, 1866, CallispJiodrus. 

 Stal, Enum. Hemip., ii, p. 106, 1872. 

 Walker, Cat. Heter., vii, p. 98, 1873, Pirates. 

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

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

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

 Champion, Biol. Centr. Am., Heter., ii, p. 2] 6, pi. 13, fig. 7, 1899. 

 Barber, Brookl. Inst., Sci., Bui., i, p. 284, 1906. 

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

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



^mutillarius (Guerin), in Sagra, Hist, de Cuba, Ins., p. 410, 1857, Reduvius. 

 Uhler in Say's Compl. Writ., i, p. 307, 1859. 



Localities: N. C., Fla., La., Texas. (West Indies.) 

 [Has been confused with next. Uncertain localities omitted.] 



748. Rasahus thoracicus Stal 

 Stal, Enum. Hemip., ii, p. 106, 1872. 

 Bueno, Ent. News, xxiv, p. 22, 1913. 



