1878.3 429 [Uhler. 



The species of this genus are said to freqnent beds and sleeping 

 apartments in the far South, and in Ohio and Illinois. 



stenopodid^;. 



Pygolampis Germar. 

 P. pectoralis. 



Reduvius pectoralis Say, Ins. of Louisiana, 11; Entomol., ed. Le- 

 Conte, i, 306. Pygolampis fuscipennis Stal, OfV. Vetensk. Akad., 

 1859, p. 380, 4. 



No. 30, Harris' Collection, <?. " May 15, 1826." 



The above name by Mr. Say was sent from him to Dr. Harris. 



One male alone remains; measuring a little more than half an inch 

 in total length. In general, specimens are larger. I have seen spec- 

 imens from Massachusetts, New York, Chicago, southern Illinois, 

 Maryland, Florida aud Texas. 



EMESID.^. 



Emesa Fabr. 

 E. longipes. 



Cimex longipes De Geer, Mem., in, 352, pi. 35, figs. 17, 19. Plot" 

 ariabrevipennis Say, Amer. Ent., in, pi. 47. Emesa pia Am. & Serv., 

 Hem., 394, 2. Emesa Jilum Gray, Cuvier An. King. Insects, n, 244, 

 pi. 97, fig. 3. Emesa pia H.-Schf., Wanz. Ins., ix, 114, fig. 937. 

 Emesa longipes Uhler, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., 1871, p. 107. 



No. 93, Harris' Collection, <S . "Pennsylvania, Dr. Pickering, Dr. 

 Gould." 



Determined by Mr. Say to be his P. brevipennis. 



Two badly mutilated and five other specimens of both sexes, with- 

 out a number, are in the collection. They are of the usual type 

 common to Pennsylvania and Maryland. 



Through the kindness of Prof. Verrill, of Yale College, I have been 

 able to examine a series of specimens from New Haven, a pair, cf, ? , 

 from Bloomington, Ind., and a male from Long Island. I have also 

 compared them with specimens from North Carolina and other south- 

 ern states, and found an agreement in structural characters. The 

 suffusion with red and distinctness of the white bands on the legs 

 depend upon individual peculiarities, such as maturity and rank feed- 

 ing, and cannot serve to distinguish the species. The species re- 



