144 Psyche A NE"' GEX"CS OF REDuYIIDLE. By E. BERGROTH, Fitchburg, l\lass. [August Among some Hemiptera received some time ago from the des- ert regions of northwest Argentina, there was a very remarkable Reduviid, by its color, the structure of the short head and broad, laterally not sinuated but reflexed pronotum anJ the whole facies closely resembling a Coreid. So strong is the likeness that I had placed it among my material of Coreidre, and it was not until an attempt to determine it that its Reduviid nature revealed itself. Psarnrnolestes gen. nov. Corpus robustum, oblongo-ovatum, opacum. Caput latitudine sua paullulo longius, pronoto paullo brevius, parte postoculari antcoculari triplo breviore et nonnihillatiore, pone oeulos lateribus callosa, basi subito constricta, parte anteocu- lari aeque lata ac longa, inter oculos et apicem tuberculorum antenniferorum suh- parallela, tylo apicem truncatum versus clilatato, jugis apicem versus divergentibus, tylo aeque longis, oculis magnis, subglobosis, ma•imam partem altitudinis capitis occupantibus, ocellis atque oculis aeque late distantihus, ad hos valde approximatis, tuberculis antenniferi se supero visis Iibert' porrectis et hreviter cylindricis, ant ennis ab oculis quam ab apice capitis paullo longius insertis, brevibus, basin pronoti baud attingentibus, articulo primo brevissimo, incrassato, latitudine sua paullo longiore, apicem capitis haud attingente, articulo secundo latitudini spatii interocu- laris cum uno oculo subaeque Iongo, tertio secundo nonnihil breviore, quarto tertio parte tertia breviore, rostro val de depresso, spatio interoculari inferiore Ia tiore, gulam subtangente, marginem anticum prosterni attingente, articulo primo medium partis anteoeularis attingente, secundo primo fere duplo longiore, tcrtio primo paullo breviore. Pronotum transversum, apice vix sinuatum, marginibus lateralibus rectis, r eflexis, antice in tuberculum porrectum breYiter conicum productis, angulis humeralibus et basalibus rotundatis, non prominulis, impressione transwrsa disci ante medium sita sat profunda sed latera non attingente, carinis duabus longitudi- nalibus parallelis obtusis interrupta, his carinis antice in medium lobi antici con- tinuatis, postice etiam in lobum posticum breviter productis, deincle retrorsum leYiter diwrgentibus et sensim obsolescentibus. Scutellum aequilateraliter tri- angulare, leniter convexum, apice horizontali, vix producto. Sulcus stridulatorius prosterni latus, leviter impressus. :l\fesosternum medio gibbum, parte gibbosa longitudinaliter leYiter impressa. Hemelytra abdomine angustiora. Abdomen lateribus integrum. Pedes brews, antici leYiter, posteriores magis distantes, anteriores suha egue longi quam postici breviores, femuribus omnibus crassiusculis, inermibus, posticis m edium ventris nonnihil supcrantibus. Allied to the genus Cmwrhinus Lap., but at once distinguished 1911] Bergroth-A New Genus of Reduviidce 145 by the structure of the head ami pronotum, the gibbous meso- sternum, and a quite different facies. Psamn1olestes coreodes sp. nov. Luride tcstaceus, ubique plus minusve fusco-conspurcatus, cellulis mcmbranre maxima parte fuscis, margine abdominis in omnibus scgmentis maculis duabus oblongis nigris notato, una ad basin, altera mox pone medium, ventre lincis tribus longitudinalibus fuscis signato, linea media parum distincta, lincis extcrioribu s irregularibus, hie et illic interruptis. Antennae breviter puberulae, articulis duobus ultimis praeterca setis rigidis semierectis parce vestitis, hi s articulis (basi tertii excepta) et apice articuli secundi infuscatis. Hostrum se tulosum. Pronotum longitudine media 2-3 latius, lobo postico antico duplo et dimidio longiorc. Hem- elytra ( ~) abdomine paullo breviora. Alae dilut e lacteae. Segmentum sextum ventrale ( ~) medio scgmentis quinto et quarto dimidioquc tertii unitis aeque Jon- gum. Pedes densius fusco-variega ti, tibiis apice fuscis. Long. ~ 15 mm. Argentina (Chaco de Santiago del Estero, Rio Salado). N. B. Attempts have been made of late to use the name Tri- atoma Lap., instead of Conorhinus. As the name Triatoma was proposed under the misconception that the antennre are three- jointed in this genus, and as it therefore was rejected by Laporte himself as inappropriate and misleading and altered to Conorlziwus in the same paper, there is , howeYer, no sufficient reason to discard the name by which the genus has been known nearly eighty years. 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