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[279-] Body dull black, very flat. Head with the nose prominent 

 and obtuse, and the front armed with a sharp tooth on each side ; antennoe 

 black with the second joint rufous all but the tip ; the last joint white at 

 the tip ; prothorax with a short anterior truncated lobe, widest in the 

 middle where the sides form a rounded angle ; emarginate posteriorly ; 

 edge very minutely serrulate ; six longitudinal ridges occupy the disk of 

 the thorax, the two external ones are abbreviated and rather obtuse ; scu- 

 tellum with a reflexed margin, and bearing on its disk a large subhemi- 

 spherical tubercle : hemelytra reticulated with cinereous, especially the 

 membrane ; abdomen with a broad margin, and the last segment bilobed 

 with incurved lobes. 



This species appears to be related to A. depressus and elevatus Fabr., 

 and to A. quadrilineatus of Say. 



390. Aradus affinis Kirby. — Length of body 2^ lines. Several 

 taken with preceding. 



Extremely similar to A. tuberculifer, but much smaller. Antennse entirely 

 black ; prothorax not extended anteriorly, so as to form a lobe ; lateral 

 abbreviated ridge more obtuse, resembling a tubercle ; margin of the 

 abdomen with a white point at the apex of each segment ; anus not lobed. 



FAMILY REDUVIADiE. 



[280.] 391. Reduviolus inscriptus Kirby. — Plate vi., fig. 7. — 

 Length of body 3 lines. A single specimen taken with preceding. 



Body of a pale or yellowish white, lineari-oblong, widest posteriorly. 

 Antennae shorter than the body, rufous, three last joints very slender ; 

 head and prothorax streaked and dotted with black ; with the anterior 

 lobe of the latter constricted next the head, separated from the posterior 

 by an impressed sinuated black line ; scutellum black with two pale longi- 

 tudinal elevations, thickest anteriorly ; hemelytra with the nervures whiter 

 than the rest of their substance ; with three blackish discoidal dots 

 arranged longitudinally from the middle to the membrane ; thighs dotted 

 with black, the anterior pair being incrassated and thicker than the inter- 

 mediate, and these than the posterior, which are not incrassated ; back 

 of the abdomen black, with a white lateral margin, underneath with three 

 longitudinal black stripes. 



[281.] 392. Chiroleptes raptor Kirby. — Length of body nearly 

 4 lines. Two specimens taken in the road from New York to Cumber- 

 land-House. 



