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(391) x 1. * Reduviolus inscriptus. Inscribed Reduviolus. 



R. (inscriptus) pallidus ; capite prothoracisque lobo antico nigro inscriptis ; scutello nigricanti, apice callis duobus elevatis albis ; 



abdvmine supra nigro, subtus vittis Iribus nigris. 

 Inscribed Reduviolus, pale, with head and anterior lobe of the prothorax inscribed with black ; scutellum blackish with two 



white elevated callosities at the apex; abdomen black above, underneath with three black stripes. 



PLATE VI, FIG. 7. 

 Nabis obsoletus. Steph. Cat. ii, 351, 9701, 6? 

 Length of the body 3 lines. 



A single specimen taken with the preceding. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Body of a pale or yellowish white, lineari-oblong, widest posteriorly. Antenna; 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 longitudinal elevations, thickest anteriorly : hem- 

 elytra 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 intermediate, and these than the posterior, which are not 

 incrassated : back of the abdomen black, with a white lateral margin, underneath with three longi- 

 tudinal black stripes, 



CLXX. * Genus CHIROLEPTES. Kirb. 



Promuscis inflexed, slender, naked, reaching the base of the first pair of legs. 



Antennae capillaceous with the scape incrassated, second joint very long, inserted before the eyes. 



Stemmata small, sessile. 



Body linear : head setting on an elongated neck. 



Prothorax bilobed, bell-shaped, posteriorly dilated ; arms raptorious. 



This genus differs from Zelus, Fab. principally in its slenderer promuscis the flexure of which is 

 a very acute angle ; its stemmata also are sessile, but more particularly in having its arms raptorious 5 

 like those of a Mantis, Zelus femoratus belongs probably to this genus. 



5 Introd. to Ent. iv. 354, 13. 



