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Head black. Eyes light brown. Antennee like jointed scales, not hairy. Thorax above almost 

 black, with a few hairs on the sides. Wings brown and opake, not transparent. Abdomen red brown, 

 covered with veiy long black hairs. Legs black. 



REDUVIUS (CONORHINUS) VARIEGATUS. 



Plate XLV. fig. 5. 



Order: Hemiptera. Suborder: Heteioptera. Section: Geocorisa. Family: Reduviitla;, Leach. 



Genus. Reduvius, Fabr. Cimex, Linn. Subgenus : Conorhinus, Laporte, Burnt. Triatoma, Lap. olim. 



Reduvius (Conorhinus) Varieqatus. Niger; thoracis lateribus maculisque marginalibus alxlominis ferru- 

 gineis, corio nigro rufo-marginato. (Long. Corp. fere I uiic.) 



Syn. Cimex variegatus, Drury, Ap]i.vol. 2. 



Reduvius gigas, Fabr. Si/st. Rh. -267. 3. Burmeister II. 246. 1.? (Conorliinus G.) Stall. 13. /. 85.? 

 Wolff, 12./. 113.? 



Habitat: Antigua. 



Head black and small. Eyes black. Antenna; 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 antennaj of this insect, as represented in the figure, are quite unlike those of any of 

 the Reduviidse, although in every other respect, and more especially in the peculiar neura- 

 tion of the membranous part of the upper wings, it agrees with the Reduvius gigas of Fa- 

 bricius, a species very widely dispersed, being found in South America, Sierra Leone, East 

 Indies, as well as the Island of Mauritius. 



ERISTALIS CINCTUS. 



Plate XLV. flg. 6. 



Order : Diptera. Section : Athericera. Family : SjTphidas, Leach. 

 Genus. Eristalis, Meigen. Musca, Drury, §-c. 



Eristalis Cinctus. Ater; thorace punctis quatuor fasciaque postica sulplmreis, abdomine castaneo fascia 

 media, sulphured. (Magn. Muse, carnariae.) 



Syn. Musca Cincta, Drury, App. vol. 2. 

 Habitat : Jamaica. 



Head large and black. Eyes brown (antennai broken off). Thorax black, with two yellow spots 

 next the head, and one on each side, at the base of the wings, with a yellow line crossing it next the 

 abdomen. Scutellum chesnut-coloured. Abdomen chesnut-coloured at the base, with a yellow ring 

 crossing the midcDe ; at rfie extremity golden green. Legs and breast black. Wings transparent 



