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magna, profunde impressa, abrupte declivis : oculi subrotundi, medi- 

 ocres, extantes : ocelli approximati, vertice triangulum fingentes, me- 

 dius perparum antepositus: aiiteiina3 subfiliformes, graciles, compactaj, 

 thorace vixbreviores ; articuli approximati ; Imus longus, sublinearis, 

 in frontem receptus ; 2dus parvus, subrotundus ; 3us minimus ; 4tus 

 et sequentes longi, lineares, usque ad lOum curtantes; clava fusifor- 

 mis, articulo lOmo multo longior : thorax ovatus : prothorax transver- 

 sus, mediocris, antice angustior : mesothoracis scutum sat magnum ; 

 parapsides optime detenninata? ; scutellum mediocre, subhexagonum, 

 longitudine paullo latins : metathorax declivis, mediocris, postice an- 

 gustior: petiolus brevissimus : abdomen fusiforme, nitens, laeve, apice 

 productum et attenuatum ; segmentum Imum magnum, longi tudinis 

 trientem occupans ; 2um et sequentia brevia, transversa ; ultimum in 

 terebram subincurvam productum abdominis triente longiorem : pro- 

 pedes etmesopedes simplices: metapedum coxae magnse, basi latiores; 

 trochanteres sat magni ; femora maxima, subdilatata, subtus dentibus 

 5 armata, quarum apicalis denticulis 2 adjuvatur; tibiae arcuatae, femo- 

 ribus applicatae, apice in dentem incurvum productae : alae mediocres, 

 angustae, abdominis apicem non attingentes: proalis nervus humeralis 

 ulnari vix duplo longior ; radialis brevissimus, cubitali non longior ; 

 cubitalis brevissimus, stigma fingens mediocre bifurcatum. 



Pitas. Condalus. Fem. Nigra, rufo varia, alae subfuscae. (Corp, 

 long. lin. 4^; alar. lin. 6). 



Nigi-a : oculi et ocelli picei : prothorax utrinque rufus : metathoracis latera rufa : abdomen basi et subtus 

 rufum ; pedes nigi'i ; genua picea ; tarsi rufi ; alje subfuscse; sciuamula; ruite ; nervi picei. 



Inhabits Brazil. In the collection of Mr. Curtis. 



Francis Walkek. 



Art. XXVIT. — Description of an apparently new species of Hemip- 

 terous Insect from the Fort of Accra. By Adam White, Esq., 

 an Assistant in the Zoological Department of the Brit. Museum. 



In a small collection of insects Idndly shown to me by H. N. Hum- 

 phreys, Esq., the artist of the elegant 'British Butterflies and their 

 Transformations,' I found the specimen described below. It comes 

 from nearly the same locality as the Canopus punctatus of Leach, viz., 

 the west coast of Tropical Africa. There were three boxes sent by Mr. 

 Ridley, of the Coast Service, who collected them, but unfortunately 

 only one reached this country ; of this, which principally contains Lepi- 



