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5. A. repletiis. Kew sp. 



Form of A. Mrtipes, Hahn. Black, robust, densely invested with 

 brownisli-black, erect pubescence. Head and surface of the pronotum 

 polished; eyes brown; antennte brownish-piceous, excepting the basal 

 joint, which is deep black. Lateral margins and humeral angles of the 

 pronotum densely beset with stiff bristles; the anterior lobe longitu- 

 dinally, deeply, and widely scooped out, each side with high oblique 

 ridges, defined by deep furrows. Hemelytra velvety ; the dense pile short, 

 black. On the disk of each corium is acrimson-red, large, triangular spot. 

 Abdomen with dense, erect, moderately short pile ; the connexivum, 

 both above and below, almost bald, polished, only the base pubescent, 

 the incisures pale yellow ; anal lobes large, lamellate, circular, j)ale yel- 

 low, the margin thickened. 



Length, 21 millimeters. Width of pronotum, 7 millimeters. 



Inhabits California. 



Subfamily HAMMATOCEEINA. 



HAMivtATOCERUS, Burm. 

 1. H. 2Jurcis. 



Cimex purcis, Drury, lUustr. iii, 63, tab. 45, fig. 4. 

 Hammatocerus nycthemerus, Burm., Handb. ii, pt. 1, 236, No. 1. 

 Hammatocerus furcis, Blanch., Hist, des Ins. iii, 105, No. 1 ; Amyot et Sarv., 

 Hemipt, 346, No. 1. 



Inhabits Virginia and the region south and southwest, through Texas, 

 into Mexico, and Indian Territory. This species varies much in the 

 extent of the red color of the femora ; and no doubt the S. luctuosus^ 

 Stal, of Mexico, will yet prove to be only a variety of it. Dr. Edward 

 Palmer collected one specimen in the vicinity of the old Fort Cobb. 



Subfamily ECTRICHODIINA. 



ECTRICHODIA, St. Farg. & Serv. 



1. E. criiciata. 



Petalocheirus criiciatus, Say, Heteropt. New Harmony, 33, No. 1 ; Complete Writ- 

 ings, i, 358, 1. 

 JEctrichodia cruciata, Stal, Enumeratio Hemipt. ii, 103, No. 4. 

 Ectrycliotes dicolor, H.-Schf., Wanz. Ins. viii, 53, fig. S2'2. 

 EMginia crudelis, Stal, Stettin. Ent. Zeit. xxiii, 455, No. 319. 



Inhabits Pennsylvania, Maryland, and the region south and west into 

 Texas, Mexico, and New Mexico. 



2. U. cinctiventris. 



Ectrkliodia cincUventris, Stal, Enumeratio Hemipt. ii, 103, No. 5. 



Inhabits Texas, New Mexico, and Mexico. 



It is the largest species thus far detected in the United States; but it 

 varies extraordinarily in size and somewhat also in color. 



i)r. Liucecum met with it in Washington County, Texas, and I have 

 received it from several other parts of this State. 



Subfamily PIRATINA. 

 SlRTHENEA, Spin. 



S. carinata. » 



JRehivUis carinatns, Fab., Ent. Syst. suppl. 545, Nos. 36-37 ; Ccquebert, Illust. i 



42, pi. 10, fig. 15. 

 Peiratts carinaUis, Serv., Ann, Sci. Nat. xxiii, 221, No. 10. 

 Rasahus carinatns, Amyot et Serv., Hist. Hemipt. 326, No. 1. 

 Hirthenea carinata, Stal, Hem. Fabr. i, 120, No. 2. 



Inhabits California, Mexico, Texas, r.nd the Southern Statef--. 

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