1901. ] IN LH HOPE COLLECLION AT OXFORD 329 
ACANTHOCEPHALA FEMORATA. 
Cimex femoratus Fabr. Syst. Hut. p. 708 (1775). 
Metapodius bispinus Westw. in Hope Cat. ii. p. 15 (1842). 
ACANTHOCEPHALA £QUALIS. (Plate XXIX. fig. 1.) 
Metapodius equalis Westw. in Hope Cat. ii. p. 14 (1842). 
Allied to A. latipes Dru., from which it differs by the more 
attenuated and less notched posterior tibive. 
ACANTHOCEPHALA CONSOBRINA. (Plate XXIX. tig. 7.) 
Metapodius consobrinus Westw. in Hope Cat. i. p. 15 (1842). 
Metapodius nigricans Westw. loc. cit. 
Westwood’s types are unlocalized; the British Museum also 
possesses two specimens of the species, but both without. habitats. 
ACANTHOCEPHALA APICALIS. 
Metapodius apicalis Westw. in Hope Cat. i. p. 15 (1842). 
Form and size of A. consobrina, pronotal angles less produced, 
colour different, &c. 
ACANTHOCEPHALA ANGUSTIPES, 
Metapodius angustipes Westw. in Hope Cat. ii. p. 15 (1842). 
Metapodius constrictus Walk. Cat, Het. iv. p. 47. n. 4 (1871). 
Westwood’s type is unlocalized; Walker's typical specimen is 
from Barbadoes ; another specimen in the British Museum is 
from Cayenne. The Colombian specimen identified by Dallas 
(List Hem. ii. p. 430. n. 6, 1852) as A. angustipes is not West- 
wood’s species. 
EMPEDOCLES TENUICORNIS. (Plate XXX. fig. I.) 
Metapodius tenuicornis Westw. in Hope Cat. ii. p. 16 (1842), 
Empedocles tenuicornis Stal, Kn, Hem. i. p. 152 (1870). 
Both Westwood’s type and Stal’s representative are unlocalized, 
so that the habitat of this species is still to be discovered. 
STENOSCELIDEA ALBOVARIA. (Plate XXX. fig. 7.) 
Stenoscelidea albovaria Westw. in Hope Cat. 11. p. 18 (1842). 
Subfam. Homaocerin ®. 
HoM@O0ceRUS BIGUTTATA. 
Homeocerus 2-guttatus Westw. in Hope Cat. i. p. 22 (1842). 
Homeocerus sikkimensis Dist. Ent. Month. Mag. xxv. p. 231 
(1889). 
HoM@OoCERUS SERRIFER. 
Coreus serrifer Westw. in Hope Cat. it. p. 24 (1842). 
Homeocerus parvulus Walk. Cat. Het. iv. p. 101. n. 32 (1871). 
Homeocerus unipunctatus Dall. (nee Thunb.) List Hem. ii. 
p. 447. n. 11 (1852). 
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