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say’s heteropTerous iiemiptera. 
ratlier longer than the third : head with three dull yellowish vit- 
tae: thorax with three vittae, becoming obsolete behind ; lateral 
margin a little depressed, impunctured ; lateral edge very 
slightly arquated ; lateral angles rounded, not prominent: scutel 
with five vittae confluent behind: ter gum blue-black; margin 
with yellowish, large, quadrate spots: beneath yellowish; two 
black lines before the eyes: an interrupted lateral vitta of 
black punctures from the eyes nearly to the posterior extremity: 
feet immaculate, tarsi dusky. 
Length three-tenths of an inch. 
The specimen is a female. It is more than usually hairy. It 
has some resemblance to Stoll fig. 102, but is shorter. 
22. P. gamma, Fabr. (Cimex) Syst Rhyng, p. 177, C. albipes, 
E. Ent. Syst. suppl. P. 4 P. punctipes, Nob. Jour. Acad. 
Nat. Sci. V. 1, p. 313 ? A common species. 
23. P. bioculata, Fabr. (Cimex) Syst. Rhyng. 175. 
Var. A. transversa 1 thoracic spots transverse. 
This species inhabits the southern states. 
23. [bis.] P. bifida , Nob. Descr. of North American Ins. found 
by Joseph Barabino. Metasternum elevated and bifid at the 
tips. 
25. P. tenebrosa, Nob. ibid. p. 8. Blackish, antennae and feet 
varied with white. 
Cydnus, Fabr. 
1. C. ligatus, Blackish; thorax and hemelytra with a white 
exterior edge. 
Inhab. U. S. 
Body piceous-black : head emarginato: antennee , second joint 
dull rufous; ultimate two joints rather long: thorax with 
numerous punctures, before the middle impunctured; lateral 
edge white: hemelytra on the lateral edge white: abdomen 
excepting at base, with a white edge: tibae white on the exte¬ 
rior edge. 
Length about one-fifth of an inch. 
It is smaller than bilineatus Nob. and larger than spinifrons 
Nob. and very different from cither by many characters. A 
very common species. It much resembles the binotatus but is 
destitute of the white spots of the hemelytra. 
