HEMIPTERA HETEROPTERA. 
103 
Male. Black, nearly linear. Head conical, as long as the fore lobe 
of the prothorax; ante-ocular part much longer than the post-ocular. 
Antennae somewhat shorter than the body; first joint longer than the ante- 
ocular head; second tawny at the tip, more than twice as long as the 
first; third and fourth curved; third shorter than the second; fourth a 
little shorter than the second. Fore lobe of the prothorax nearly twice as 
long as the hind lobe; hind part of the middle furrow dilated and strongly 
marked; a tubercle on each side of the fore border. Scutellum with a 
white slightly ascending apical spine. Connexivum with white spots. 
Legs slender; fore coxae white beneath towards the tips; four hinder 
femora with a white hand near the base*, knees whitish; spongy furrow of 
the fore tibiae full half the length of the latter. Fore wings with four vvliite 
marks; a streak on the inner border before the middle, near and parallel to 
a streak in the disk ; a transverse white spot near the inner border; an 
exterior subcostal white dot; an angular cinereous mark in the membrane. 
Hind wings cinereous. Length of the body 5 liues. 
a. Santaretn. From Mr. Bates’ collection. 
Female. Elongate-fusiform. Membrane with a large apical white 
spot. Length of the body 5.^ lines. 
a. Guatemala. From M. Deby’s collection. 
Div. 4. 
Sirthenea, Spin. 
26. Pirates stria. 
Reduvius stria, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iv. 201 ; Syst. Rhyn. 276 — Sirthenea 
stria, Slal, Hem. Fabr. i. 120. 
Cayenne, 
a, b. Brazil. 
c. Kio Janeiro. Presented by J. P. G. Smith, Esq. 
d. Columbia. From M. Goudot’s collection. 
e. Pernambuco. Presented by — Spooner, Esq. 
/. Brazil. From Mr. Argent’s collection. 
g. Rio Janeiro. Presented by — Busk, Esq. 
h. Deruerara. From Mr. Children’s collection. 
27. Pirates Amazonus. 
Sirthenea Amazona, Stal, Ofv. K. V. Ak. Fork, xxiii. 252. 
a. Amazon Region. From Mr. Bates’ collection. 
b. Amazon Regiou. Presented by W. W. Saunders, Esq. 
28. Pirates flavipes. 
Rasalnts flavipes, Stal, Ofv. K. V. Ak. Fork. xii. 187 — Sirthenea flavipes, 
Stal , Ofv. K. V. Ak. Fork, xxiii. 252; xxvii. 692. 
Brazil. 
