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Female. Pale testaceous, lanceolate. Head elongate-conical, more 

 than half as long as the piothorax. Eyes piceous. Antennae more than 

 half as long hs the hotly; first joint shorter than the head; second 

 longer than the head; third a little shorter ihan the second; fourth shorter 

 than the third, a little longer than the first. Legs pale yellow. Fore 

 wings very little longer than the abdomen, wiih four black points, of which 

 one is costal. Hind wings white. Length of the body 3 lines. 



This species closely resembles N. ferus; the scutellum is wholly pale 

 and the fore wings are a little shorter. 



a. New Zealand. Presented by W. W. Saunders, Esq. 



Genus 8. CNEMODUS. 

 Cnemodtts, H.-Sch. Wans. Ins. ix. 184. 



1. Cnemodus brevipennis. 

 brevipennis, H.-Sch. Wans. Ins. iv. 184, pi. 309, f. 948. 

 North America. 



Fam. 2. REDUVID^E. 



Reduvida?, Serv. Hist. Hem. 333— Acanthaspida, Stal, Hem. Afr. iii. 44, 

 119. 



Genus 1. PLATYMERIS. 



Platymeris, De Lap. Ess. Hem. 80. Burm. Handb. Ent. ii. 233. Slal, 

 Hem. Afr. iii. ^123 — Platymerus, Blanch. Hist. Nat. Ins. iii. 104. 

 Serv. Hist. Hem. 333. 



Africa. 



mv. i. 



1. Platymeris biguttata. 



, Sloll, Pun. 42, pi. 9, f. 62— Cimex bignttatus, Linn. Syst. Nat. 2, 



725 — Reduvius biauttatus, Fabr. Syst. Ent. 731 ; Sp. Ins. ii. 381 ; 

 Mant. Ins. ii. 313; Ent. Syst. iv. 205; Sy*t. Rhyn. 266. Wolff, 

 Icon. Cim. ii. 82, f. 79— Platymerus biguttatus, Blanch. Hist. Nat. 

 Ins. Hem. 104, pi. 2, f. 3. Serv. Hist. Han. 334 — Platymeris 

 biguttatH, Burm. Handb. Ent. ii. 233. Stal, Ofv. K. Vet. Ak. Fork. 

 xvi. 188; Hem. Afr. iii. 124. 



a — c. Sierra Leone. Presented by the Rev. D. F. Morgan. 



Var.? Spots on thecorium Inteous. 

 d. East Africa. Presented by Earl Russell. 



2. Platymeris guttatipennis. 

 guttatipenuis, Stal, Hem. Afr. 125. 

 a. Natal. From M. Gueinzius' collection. 



