Plate XLV. fig. 5.
ORDER: Hemiptera. SUBORDER: Heteroptera. SECTION: Geocorisa. FAMILY:
Reduviidæ, _Leach_.
GENUS. REDUVIUS, _Fabr._ Cimex, _Linn._ Subgenus: Conorhinus, _Laporte_,
_Burm._ Triatoma, _Lap. olim._
REDUVIUS (CONORHINUS) VARIEGATUS. Niger; thoracis lateribus maculisque
marginalibus abdominis ferrugineis, corio nigro rufo-marginato. (Long.
Corp. fere 1 unc.)
SYN. Cimex variegatus, _Drury, App. vol._ 2.
Reduvius gigas, _Fabr. Syst. Rh._ 267. 3. _Burmeister_ II. 246. 1.?
(Conorhinus G.) _Stoll._ 13. _f._ 85.? _Wolff_, 12. f. 113.?
HABITAT: Antigua.
Head black and small. Eyes black. Antennæ black, and shorter than the
insect. Thorax black, the sides red brown and angular. Scutellum small,
black, and angular. Basal portion of the hemelytra black, verged with
red; the apical membrane opake and brown. Wings transparent. Abdomen
black, with red spots on its sides, which are seen also beneath. Legs
black, yellow at the base.
The antennæ of this insect, as represented in the figure, are quite unlike
those of any of the Reduviidæ, although in every other respect, and more
especially in the peculiar neuration of the membranous part of the upper
wings, it agrees with the Reduvius gigas of Fabricius, a species very
widely dispersed, being found in South America, Sierra Leone, East Indies,
as well as the Island of Mauritius.