CATALOGUE 
OF 
HEMIPTEEA HETEEOPTEEA. 
PAET VIII. 
Genus 6. OPINUS. 
Tapeinus, De Lap. Hem. 81 — Opinus, De Lap. Hem. Suppl. Scrv. Hist. 
Hem. 338 — Tapinus, Burm. Handb. Ent. ii. 236, 
America. 
Div. 1. 
Tbytnbreus, Stal, Ofv. K. V. Ah. Fork. xvii. 185. 
The two following species were inserted in Pt. VII,, p. 132, as 
PacLynomi, 
1, Opinus pyrrhopterus. 
Opinus pyrrhopterus, Stal, Rio Jan. Hem. 72 — Thymbreus pyrrhopterus, 
Stal, Ofv. K. Vet. Ah. Fork, xvii, 186, 
Brazil. 
2. Opinus crocinopterus. 
Thymbreus crocinopterus, Stal, Stelt, Ent. Zeit. xxiii, 457. 
Mexico. 
3, Opinus pygm^os. ' 
Fulvus, fere linearis; caput prothoracis lobo antico paullo longius ; 
antennarurn arlicultis 2us piceus, 3us 4usque testacei ; prothoracis 
lobus anticus lobo poslico vix hrevior, anlice bi tuber cula tus ; femora 
antica robusta, subtus spinulosa ; alee anticce nigra basifulva. 
Tawny, nearly linear. Head .small, short, a little longer than the 
fore lobe of the prolhorax ; ante-ocular part a little shorter than the post- 
ocular. Antennae longer than the head and the prolhorax together ; first 
joint as long as the ante-ocular head ; second piceous, stout, twice as long 
as the first; third and fourth testaceous, very slender; third much shorter 
than the second; fourth as long as the third. Prothorax with a slight 
longitudinal furrow. Fore lobe nearly as long as the hind lobe, with a 
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