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A NATURALIST IN THE TRANSVAAL. 



Subfam. PIRATING. 



Pirates lugubris, Stal. 

 Pirates conspurcatus, sp. n. 



Subfam. ACANTHASPIDIN^:. 

 Edocla quadrisignata, Stal. 



Pretoria. 

 Pretoria. 



Pretoria. 



HOMOPTERA. 

 Fam. 



Platypleura divisa, Germ. 

 Platypleura punctigera, Walk. 

 Tibicen carinatus, Thunb. 

 Tibicen undulatus, Thunb. 



Fam. CERCOPID^E. 

 Subfam. CERCOPINJE. 



Locris transversa, Thunb. 

 Locris arithmetica, Walk. 



Subfam. APHROPHOEIN^;. 

 Poophilus actuosus, Stal. 



Pretoria. 

 Durban, Natal. 

 Pretoria. 

 Pretoria. 



Durban, Natal. 

 Pretoria. 



Pretoria. 



Notes and Descriptions. 



Cimex figuratus, Germ.,, var. (Tab. III. fig. 1.) 

 Asopusfiguratw, Germ, in Silb. Rev. Ent. v. p. 185, no. 132 (1837). 



Bright blue, shining, corium paler and more greenish in hue ; 

 head with the central lobe obscurely marked with luteous; 

 pronotum with the anterior and lateral margins and some 

 scattered spots on anterior half of disk luteous ; corium with 

 base of lateral margin luteous ; scutellum with a small central 

 basal spot and the apical margin very narrowly luteous ; 

 connexivum luteous, spotted with dark indigo-blue ; membrane 

 brassy brown, Avith its apex hyaline. Body beneath bright 

 shining purplish blue ; lateral margins of sternum, a spot on 

 each side of metasternum, rostrum, coxal spots, bases of femora, 



