331 



Inhabits California and Mexico. 



A single specimen from near San Diego is deep black, highly polished 

 on the snrface of pronotum, and the only red present is upon the outer 

 edge of the abdomen. 



CONORHINUS, Lap. 



1. C ruhyofasciatus. 



Cimex riibrofasciatus, De Geer, Mem. iii, 349, pi. 35, fig. 12. 



lieduvius (jigas, Fab., Syst. Ent. 729, No. 1. 



Cimex erijtliro:oiuas, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i, pt. 4, 2181, No. 456. 



Cimex gigas, Gmeliu, ih. 2195, No. 544. 



ConorhiiiHS gigas, Burm., Hanclb. ii, pt. 1, 246, No. 1 ; Blanchard, Hist, des 



Insectes, iii, 108, No. 2. 

 Conorhinus ruhrofasciatus, Amyot et Serv., H6mipt. 384, No. 1, \A. 8, fig. 2. 

 Conorhinus gigas, H.-Scbf., Wanz. Ins. viii, 72, figs. 841, 842. 

 Conorhinus iUdlii, Signoret, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 3d ser., viii, 967, No. 184. 

 Conorldnus ruhrofasciatus, Stal, Berlin. Ent. Zeit. iii, 106, No. 1. 



Inhabits California, Texas, Kansas, Mexico, Brazil, Asia, and Africa. 



The specimens from California and Mexico have the anterior angles 

 of the pronotum less produced than in the African and South American. 

 Occasionally a specimen obtained in California is almost uniformly deep 

 or rusty black. Whether this is a feature of all the specimens from a 

 particular locality, or only a peculiarity of sporadic examples, has not 

 yet been determined. 



2. C. variegatus. 



Cimex variegaius, Drury, Illust. i, 109, pi. 45, fig. 5. 

 Cimex claviger, Gmeliu, Syst. Nat. i, pt. 4, 2l79, No. 441. 



Conorhinus lecticidarius, Stal, Berlin. Ent. Zeit. iii, 107, No. 2; Hemipt. Fabr. i, 124, 

 No. 3. 



Inhabits Texas, Indian Territory (Dr. Palmer), California, Georgia, 

 Louisiana, and Illinois. 



3. C. sanguisugus. 



Conorhinus sangumiga, LeConta, Proc. Acad. Phila. vii, 404. 

 Conorhinus lateralis, Stal, Berlin. Eut. Zeit. iii, 107, No. 3. 



Inhabits Virginia, Maryland, Ohio, Texas, Florida, Illinois, and 

 Panama. 



The extended geographical range of this blood-thirsty tenant of the 

 beds in houses is noteworthy, and no doubt it has, like its congener, C. 

 gigas, been aided in its range by human agency. 



4. C. GersUeclieri. 



Conorhinus Gcrstcvckeri, Stal, Berlin. Eut. Zeit. iii. 111, No. 9; Hemipt. Fabr., i, 

 124, No. 8. 



Inhabits Texas. 



Family STENOPODID.E. 

 Centromelus, Fieb. 



C. languidus 



Pnirontis 

 Centrome 



Inhabits Texas, Florida, South Carolina, and Brazil 



Pnirontis languida, Stal, Ofvers. Veteusk. Akad. Forhandi. 1859, 332, No. 2. 

 Centromelus languida, Stal, Ennmeratio Hemipt. ii, 120, No. 1. 



