HEMIPTERA HETEROPTERA. 509 
2. PRocILIA SCINTILLANS. 
scintillans, Stal, Hem. Afr. i. 36. 
Old Calabar. 
3. ProciLia PRETORIA. 
pretoria, Stal, Hem. Afr. i, 37. 
Gabon. 
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LipyssA PURPURASCENS. 
Subchalybeo-rufescens, longi-ovata, dense punctata ; rostrum testaceum ; 
antlenne nigre, basi testacee ; thorax valde convexus, vittis duabus 
marginalibus ochraceo-rufis, fascia media purpurea indeterminata ; 
scutellum fasctis quatuor purpureis indistinelis, la basalt, 2a 3aque 
connexis ; peclus purpureum, plaga centrali flava, vitlis duabus 
lateralibus ochraceo-rufis ; venter ochraceo-rufis, villis duabus den- 
datis purpureis, fasciis abbreviatis flavis ; pedes purpurei, femoribus 
ochraceo-rufis. 
Dull red, with a slight chalybeous tinge, elongate-oval, thickly and 
minutely punctured. Head rather short; middle lobe keeled. Eyes livid. 
Rostrum testaceous. Antenne black; first joint testaceous; second about 
half the length of the third; fourth longer than the third, a little longer 
than the fifth. Thorax somewhat gibbous, with a transverse callus on each 
side in front, and with two broad orange-red marginal stripes which do not 
extend hindward beyond the much-rounded hind angles; an indistinct 
purple band across the middle. Scutellum with four indistinct purple 
bands, of which the first is basal; second and third bands connected. 
Pectus purple; middle part yellow; an ochraceous-red stripe on each side. 
Abdomen beneath ochraceous-red, and with an abbreviated yellow band on 
the fore border of each segment. Legs purple; coxe and femora ochraceous- 
red. Fore wings blackish cinereous, black along the costa. Length of the 
body 63—7 lines. 
a—c. East Africa. Presented by Earl Russell. 
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CALLIDEA DISTINGUENDA. 
distinguenda, Retche et Fairm. Voy. Abyss. Ent. 433. Stal, Hem, Afr. 
i. 45, 
Abyssinia. 
CatiipEa Baro. 
Var. Tetrarthria tetraspila, page 19. 
CALLIDEA FASCIATA. 
Tetrarthria fasciata, page 20. 
CALLIDEA SOBRIA. 
Tetrarthria sobria, page 21. 
