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of some Exotic Aphodiideous Insects. 248 
P.S.—Since this memoir was read, Dr. Klug has published a 
new part of the ‘“‘Symbolee Physicz,’ in which he has figured 
a minute insect from Abyssinia, closely allied to the one above 
described, under the name of Corythoderus loripes (P|. XLII. fig. 
11, and our Pl. XVII. fig. 7), It differs however from Captain 
Boys’ insect, not only in the form of its feet, but also in the sul- 
cation of its prothorax and elytra. Dr. Klug has unfortunately 
omitted to describe the trophi, the specimen being unique. 
XXXVIII. Descriptions of various exotic Heteropterous 
Hemiptera. By J.O. Wustwoopn, F.L.S., &e. 
(Continued from Vol, II, pp. 24, 253; Vol. III. p. 31; and 
Vol DV ps 122; 
[Read 7th October, 1844, &c.] 
Prataspis BucerHatus, White. (Entomologist, p. 136,) 
(Pl. XVIII. fig. 1.) 
As the specimen of this remarkable insect, described by Mr. 
White, was mutilated, I beg leave to present to the Entomological 
Society a figure and details drawn from a perfect specimen recently 
received by the Reverend F. W. Hope, in a collection of insects 
forwarded to him from Cape Palmas by Mr, Savage. 
This specimen (as well as evidently that described by Mr. White) 
is a male, possessing the broad head with corniform appendages 
(so commonly indicative of that sex), a scutellum emarginate at 
its tip when seen from behind, and the exserted sexual apparatus, 
concave on its lower surface except at the base, of the male. I 
am the more particular in determining the sex of this specimen, 
as either the sexual distinctions in this genus have been regarded 
as sectional, or the sexes have been transposed in some recent 
works on the Hemiptera. Of the identity of the sex there can 
be no question, since, independent of the enlarged size and dilated 
or cornuted structure of the head of the males, I have extracted 
the ova from the abdomen of a specimen of an allied species, 
having the scutellum destitute of the emargination, and the sexual 
apparatus agreeing with the figures which I have given as those of 
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