HEMIPTERA HETEROPTERA. 167 
Eyes very prominent. Rostrum yellow; second joint black on each side; 
fourth black. Anteune very slender, as long as the body; first joint as 
long as the head, yellow at the base; second longer than the first; third 
more than twice as long as the second; fourth shorter than the third. Fore 
lobe of the prothorax bordered with yellow on each side, a little shorter 
than the hind lobe, which is wholly bordered with yellow; hind angles 
black, slightly prominent. Scutellum with a long erect yellow spine, 
which is blackish towards the tip. Pectus with yellow spots. Abdomen 
yellow and with silvery reflections beneath, where there are transverse 
eneous streaks on each side and a large geneous patch at two-thirds of the 
length. Legs piceous, slender, clothed with fine bairs; four anterior 
femora yellow, piceous at the base and towards the tips on the outer side; 
hind femora yellow at the base; four anterior tibie yellow and furrowed 
beneath at the tips; hind tibie with a yellow band near the base. Corium 
with a little yellow costal streak at the base and with an oblique yellow 
streak near the exterior border. Membrane cinereous, hyaline, wita black 
veins. Length of the body 53 lines. 
a, Singapore. Presented by W. W. Saunders, Esq. 
Genus 4. ACANTHASPIS. 
Acanthaspis, Serv. Hist. Hem. 336. Stal, Hem. Afr. iii. 126. 
Mexico and South America. 
Div. 1. 
Leogorrus, Stal, Stett. Ent. Zeit. xx. 404. 
1. ACANTHASPIS OCHROPUS. 
ochropus, Stal, Ofv. K. V. Ak, Fork. xii. 188—Reduvius ochropus, Stal, 
Rio Jan. Hem. 71. 
Minas Geraes. 
2. ACANTHASPIS FORMICARIA. 
Reduvius formicarius, Fubr. Syst. Rhyn. 280. Stal, Rio Jan. Hem. 71— 
Platymeris formicaria, Burm. Handb. Ent. ii. 233. H.-Svh. Wanz. 
Ins. viii. 33, pl. 260, f. 808—Leogorrus formicarius, Stal, Hem. Fubr. 
i. 125. 
South America. 
3. ACANTHASPIS LITURA. 
Reduvius litura, Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. 310; Ent. Syst. iv. 199; Syst. Rhyn. 
272—Platymeris myrmecodes, H.-Sch. Wanz. Ins. xiii. 32, pl. 260, 
f. 807—Leogorrus litura, Stal, Hem, Fabr, i. 126. 
Mexico. Cayenne. Brazil. 
