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 ending at the anterior edge. Wings diaphanous. Abdomen red, edged with black. Rostrum slender, 

 and extending just below the fore-legs. Legs yellow-brown. Tibiae and tarsi almost black. 



DIASPIDIUS SCAPHA. 



Plate XLIII. fig. 4. 



Order ; Hemiptera. Sl'border ; Heteroptera. Section : Geocorisa. Family ; Reduviiila;, Leach. 



Genus. Diasi'IDIUS, Westw. Cimex, Drury. 



DiASPiDius ScAPHA. Fulvus; capite, antoiinis, pioiioti lobo antico, membrana elytrorum pedibusque uigris. 

 (Expans. Alar. 2 unc.) 



Syn. Cimex Scapha, Drury, App. ml. 3. 



Habitat : Sierra Lenne. 



Head very small, black, hairy, and long. Antennae filifomn, about half the length of the insect. The 

 fore part of the thorax is hairy and black ; the remainder and the scutellum yellow-brown. Basal half 

 of the hemelytra orange-coloured, the remainder dark brown. Wings diaphanous. Abdomen brown- 

 yellow. Rostrum short and black, not reaching to the fore-legs, which are black. Middle and hind 

 legs partly black and brown. 



This insect differs so much from the other species of the extensive family Reduviidse, 

 that I have been compelled to raise it to the rank of a distinct genus, the characters of 

 which are as well marked as those of the majority of the genera recently proposed by the 

 Continental Entomologists in this group. Its characters as a genus are — 



Caput parvum. Antennae breves vix longitudine thoracis, 4 ?-articulatse ; articulo 2"''"., 1™°. 

 et 3"°. breviori. Pronotum postice in lobum magnum depressum, supra scutellum et basin 

 alarum productum. Hemelytra margineni lateralem abdominis haud tegentia. Tarsi ut 

 videtur 1-articulati. 



PYRRHOCORIS PRINCEPS. 



Plate XLIII. fig. 5. 



Okder; Hemiptera. Suborder: Heteroptera. Section; Geocorisa. Family: Lygseidse. 

 Gknus. Pyrrhocoris, Fallen, BurmeiMer. Astemma, St. Farg. Sf Serv. Platynotus, Schill. 

 Pybrhocoris Phinceps. Sanguineus; prouoti lobo antico in medio, elytrorum fasciS, versus basin maculaque 

 costali media nigris, membrana apicali fusca, femoribus in medio nigris. (Expans. Alar. 2 unc.) 



Sy'N. Cimex longirostris, Drury, Ap}). i-ol. 3. 

 Habitat : Sierra Leone. 



Head yellowish-brown. Thorax in front black, and brown behind. Antennae black and slender, 

 about half the length of the insect. Scutellum triangular and black. Cerium yellow-brown, having a 

 black streak crossing the middle, and a black spot near it ; apical membrane opake and dark brown. 

 Wings diaphanous. Rostrum long and slender, reaching to the middle of the abdomen. Legs partly 

 black and brown. Tarsi three-jointed. 



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