Habitat: Jamaica (Drury). South America.
Head black and very small. Antennæ slender, and almost as long as the insect. Thorax dark muddy green, almost black, which is the general colour of the insect. Next the head there is a white mark, somewhat resembling a crown, the sides terminating in two angles. Scutellum triangular. Hemelytra and wings of the same dark colour with the other parts. Rostrum slender, extending to the middle legs. Fore and middle legs slender, the thighs being dentated. Hinder legs very long, the thighs very thick and strong, and much dentated; the tibiæ being very broad and thin, and the inner edges serrated. Tarsi dark orange.
HAMMATOCERUS PURCIS.
Plate [XLV]. fig. 4.
Order: Hemiptera. Suborder: Heteroptera. Section: Geocorisa. Family: Reduviidæ, Leach.
Genus. Hammatocerus, Burm. Hammacerus, Laporte. Cimex, Drury.
Hammatocerus Purcis. Niger, undique granosus, elytris basi albis, femorum posticorum basi sanguineâ. (Long. Corp. 1 unc.)
Syn. Cimex Purcis, Drury, App. vol. 3. Brown Ill. tab. 70. f. 2.
Reduvius Nychthemerus, Illig. Burm. vol. 2. 236. 1. (Hammatocerus n.)
Hammacerus conspicillaris var. Laporte Hem. 79.