HEMIPTERA HETEROPTERA, 157 
57. A\THUS RUDIS. 
Piceo-niger, ellipticus, sat latus, fere planus, vix nitens, subtilissime et 
densissime punctatus, lateribus setosis ; thorax sulco medio transverso 
subobsoleto ; pedes crassi, femoribus rufescente piceis, tarsis fulvis ; 
ale antice picee, quadristriala, sat dense punctate. 
Piceous-black, elliptical, rather broad, hardly convex, very minutely 
and thickly punctured, hardly shining, beset with bristles along each side. 
Head a little less than half the breadth of the thorax. Rostrum and an- 
tenne piceous. Thorax with a nearly obsolete transverse furrow at a little 
behind the middle. Legs thick; femora reddish piceous; tibie with long 
stout spines ; tarsi tawny. Fore wings piceous, rather thickly and minutely 
punctured, with two strie near the costa and two near the hind border. 
Membrane cinereous. Length of the body 44 lines. 
a. Gambia. Presented by W. W. Saunders, Esq. 
58, AXTHUS LIVIDUS. 
Niger, ellipticus, convexus, nitens ; capitis thoracisque latera setis longis 
munitu ; caput oblique striatum, margine antico rufescente ; rostrum 
fulvum ; antenne picee ; thoracis sulci duo transversi punctis mar- 
ginati ; scutellum sat dense punctatum; pedes fulvi, crassi; ale 
antice livide, membrana albida. 
Black, elliptical, convex, shining. Sides of the head and of the 
thorax with long bristles. Head reddish along the fore border, obliquely 
striated on each side, less than half the breadth of the thorax. Rostrum 
tawny. Antenne piceous, hardly one-fourth of the length of the body ; 
third, fourth, and fifth joints fusiform, about equal in length. Thorax 
with a transverse middle furrow, behind which it is thickly punctured ; a 
few punctures along the fore border, near which there is a very slight 
transverse furrow. Scutellum rather thickly punctured. Abdomen with a 
few slender bristles along the sides. Legs tawny, thick ; tibie with piceous 
spines. Fore wings livid, with three strie near the costa and three more 
near the hind border ; membrane whitish. Length of the body 13 line. 
a. Interior of South Africa. From Captain Allen’s collection. 
Madagascar. 
59. Airnus MapaGascaRIENSIs. 
ZEthus Madagaseariensis, Sign. A. S. HE. F. 3me Ser, viii. 922—Macro- 
scytus Madagascariensis, Stal, Hem. Afr. i. 24. 
Madagascar. 
60. AXtHUS RUFIROSTRUM. 
rufirostrum, Sign. A. S. E. F'. 3me Ser. viii. 923—rufirostris, Stal, Hem. 
Afts i. 22: 
Madagascar. 
Hindostan. 
61. AXtruus Foveotus, C. H. 113. 
a. North Hindostan. Presented by General Hardwicke. 
b. North China. From Mr, Fortune’s collection, 
