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HOMCEOCERID.E. 



Anacanthus, Uhler. 

 Body elongated, sides parallel ; head square, lightly eniarginated between 

 the antennas, and furnished with a feeble carina; behind the emargination, 

 longitudinally impressed ; eyes globular; stemmata situated on the posterior 

 line of the eyes, a little nearer them than each other, a slight transverse im- 

 pression before each ; rostrum reaching half way between the anterior pairs of 

 legs, first and second joints nearly equal in length, second thickened, next and 

 the apical one cylindrical, subequal; antennae cylindrical, slender, as long as 

 the body, basal joint a little more robust than the others, slightly arcuated, 

 second longest, third and apical ones subequal, the latter cylindrical, acute ; 

 thorax trapezoid, humeral angles not armed ; membrane with the nervures 

 numerous, chiefly longitudinal, tip not extending beyond the abdomen ; legs 

 simple, posterior femorae not thickened, two pairs of hind-femora arcuated ; 

 abdomen not dilated, sides parallel. 



A. concoloratus . Cinnamon-yellow, legs and antennae deeper, beneath 

 paler, above uniformly, finely punctured, last joint of the antennae dusky, with 

 a minute black tip ; eyes brownish ; stemmata reddish ; humeral angles simply 

 angulated, an irregular, transverse elevated line before the hind-margin ; mem- 

 brane pale-yellowish, with a brassy tint, a thick nervule running nearly half the 

 length of its posterior margin black ; wings whitish, slightly tinged with 

 brassy lustre ; origin and basal half of the costal nervure red, remaining part 

 yellow, some of the discal nervures margined with red, the rest brownish or 

 yellow; beneath pale, polished, pectus finely punctured, unguiculi blackish. 



Length 16 millim. Humeral breadth 4J millim. <j\ Hong-Kong, China. 



LYGJEIDvE. 

 Lyceus, Fab. 



1. L. equestris, Linn. Fauna Suecica, 946. Hakodadi, Japan. 



2. L. m u n d u s, Dallas, Brit. Mus. Cat. Hemip. 542, 32. Cape Good Hope. 



3. L. ornatus. Head sanguineous-red, base, under side and slender 

 longitudinal line black, rostrum also black, in the midst of the basal black 

 spot is a minute whitish dot; eyes brownish, stemmata yellowish; antennae 



; thorax red, margins not elevated, a black, each side interrupted, line 



behind the head, two triangular spots behind near the posterior angles, and 

 two round dots of a deeper black, almost connecting the anterior band with 

 the posterior spots; scutellum black, with a red tip and posterior margin; 

 corium red, whitish against the membrane, a black oval spot running from 

 near the internal angle to the humeral one, where it is reduced almost to 

 a point, another subtriangular one behind the former against the external 

 margin ; membrane black, exterior margin and point at the basal angle white ; 

 disk of the venter blackish, margins red, stigmata black ; each pectoral seg- 

 ment with a large black spot, pulverulent with whitish ; a series of four round 

 blacker points each side of the pectus ; legs piceous, powdered with whitish. 



Length 9J millim. 9- Hong-Kong, China. 



PACHYMERID.E. ' 



Pachvmerds, H. Schf. 



P. alb o -m a r ginatu s . Elongated, black; head black, pubescent, im- 

 punctured ; rostrum piceous, paler in the middle ; thorax trapezoidal, lateral 

 margins broadly elevated, pale testaceous ; basal breadth less than the length, 

 surface densely punctured upon the basal half, behind the head and against 

 the lateral margins, middle transverse, impressed line distinct, a slightly ele- 

 vated, longitudinal line reaching from it to the base, humeral angles obtusely 

 rounded ; scutellum black, sparsely punctured, tip and a slightly elevated line 

 against it testaoeous ; hemelytra coarsely punctured, testaceous, a large black 

 I860.] 



