HEMIPTEKA UliTKHUPTEKA. 



509 



2. PkOCILIA SCINJ'ILLANS. 



scintillans, Stal, Hem. Afr. i, 36. 

 Old Calabar. 



3. PrOCILIA I>R/ET0RIA. 



praetoiia, Slal, Hem. Afr. i. 37. 



Gabon. 



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LiBTSSA PUEPOIUSCENS. 



Suhchalybeo-rufescens, Inngi-ovata, dense punctata; rostrum testaceum ; 

 antenna: nigrce, hasi testacece ; thorax valde convexus, vittis dnabus 

 marginalibus ochraceo-rujis, fascia media purpurea indeterminata ; 

 scuteUum fasciis qualuor purpureis indistinciis, ]a basali,2a Zaque 

 connexis ; pectus purpureum, plaga cenlrali flava, vitlis duabus 

 lateralibus ochraceo-rujis ; venter ochraceo-rufis, vittis duabus den- 

 tatis purpureis, fasciis abbreviatis flavis ; pedes purpurei, femoribus 

 ochraceo-rufis. 



Dull red, with a sliglt chaljbeous tinge, elougale-oval, lliickly and 

 minutely punctured. Head rather short ; middle lobe keeled. Eyes livid. 

 Rostrum testaceous. Anlennas bluck; 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 augles ; an indistinct 

 purple band across the middle. Sculellum 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; coxa3 and feaiora ochraceous- 

 red. Fore wings blackish cinereous, black along the cosla. Length of the 

 body 6^ — 7 lines. 



a — c. East Africa. Presented by Earl Russell. 



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CaLLIDEA DISTINGUENDA. 



distinguenda, Reiche et Fairm. Voy. Abyss. Ent. 433. Stal, Hem, Afr, 

 i. 45. 



Abyssinia. 



Callidea Baro. 



Var, Tetrarthria telraspila, page 19. 



Callidea fasciata. 

 Tetrarthria fasciata, page 20, 



CaLLIDKA S0I3R1A. 



Tetrarthria sobria, page 21. 



