Q CATALOGUE OF 
small tubercle on each side of the fore border. Hind lobe with the hind 
angles rounded, not prominent. Scutellum blackish, equilaterally trian- 
gular. Fore femora stout, spinulose beneath. Fore wings black, tawny 
towards the base. Length of the body 2% lines. 
a. Tejuca. Presented by the Rev. H. Clark. 
Africa. 
4. OPINUS ACUTICEPS. 
Niger, longissime ovalis; caput prothoracis lobo antico triplo longius ; 
prothorax rufus, lobis equilongis ; pedes rufi, tibtis quatuor posteriori- 
bus femoribusque nigris, tibiis anticis nigro unifasciatis. 
Black, dull, very elongate-oval. Head lanceolate, thrice as long as 
the fore lobe of the prothorax; ante-ocular part twice as long as the post- 
ocular. First joint of the antenne stout, shorter than the head, much 
longer than the second. Prothorax red, with rounded and not prominent 
angles. Fore lobe as long as the hind lobe, convex on each side of the 
longitudinal furrow. Legs red; femora and four posterior tibie black 
above; fore tibia with a black band. Length of the body 43 lines. 
a. Sierra Leone. From Mr. Foxcroft’s collection. 
South Asia and Eastern Isles. 
Div. 
5. OPINUS RUBROPICTUS. 
rubropictus, Serv. Hist. Hem. 339. 
Java. 
Div. 2. 
Sminthus, Stal, Ofv. K. Vet. Ak. Forh. xvii. 186. 
6. OPINUS PROXIMUS. 
proximus, Serv. Hist. Hem. 346—Sminthus proximus, Stal. 
Java. 
7. OPINUS PICTUS. 
pictus, De Lap. Hém. 78, 82. Serv. Hist. Hem. 340—Tapinus pictus, 
Burm. Handb, Ent. ii. 236. H.-Sch. Wanz. Ins. viii. 56, pl. 267, f. 
825—Hammatocerus pictus, Blanch. Hist. Nat. Ins. iti. 105— 
Sminthus pictus, Stal. 
Java, 
Var.? proximus, Serv. Hist. Hem. 340. 
8. OpINUS INCONSPICUUS. 
Tapirus inconspicuus, H.-Sch. Wanz. Ins. viii. 57, pl. 26, f. 826— 
Sminthus inconspicuus, Stal. 
Java. 
