444 Mr. J. Scott on new Genera and Species 



Family Brachyrhynchidae. 



Genus Mezira, Am. et Serv. 



Mezira scabrosa. 



Pitchy black or brown, covered with minute tubercles. 



Head pitchy black, thickly tuberculate. Antennae pitchy 

 black, thickly punctured ; fourth joint, apex dusky yellow. 

 Eyes pitchy brown. Rostrum dark brown. 



Thorax. — Pronotum dull pitchy brown, tubercles thickly 

 and irregularly disposed, four anterior callosities generally 

 brown in the centre. Scutellum black or pitchy black, thickly 

 tuberculate, central keel and apex sometimes brownish. Elytra 

 pale brownish yellow ; between the anterior margin and the 

 first nerve, towards the apex, more or less brown ; posterior 

 marginal nerve piceous ; all the nerves tuberculate and the 

 spaces between sparingly so ; tubercles brown. Membrane 

 brownish yellow, nerves brown ; below the apex of the corium 

 a yellowish patch. Sternum black-brown, round the base of 

 the legs dark brown. Legs dark brown : thighs thickly and 

 finely granulate. 



Abdomen beneath dark brown ; anterior margin of the first 

 four segments in the middle finely granulate, fifth and sixth 

 entirely granulated. Connexivum dark brown ; posterior margin 

 of the segments pale brown. 



Length 3-4 lines. 



Family Reduviidae. 



Genus Acanthaspis, Am. et Serv. 



A can thasjj is h u mera lis . 



Black, clothed with long, fine, yellow and black hairs. 



Head black. Face, apex round the base of the rostrum 

 brown. Eyes pitchy brown. Antennae black, clothed with 

 long, almost erect, black hairs ; third and fourth joints, in 

 addition, with short yellowish hairs. Rostrum black. 



Thorax. — Pronotum dull cinnamon-brown, clothed with long, 

 fine, yellow hairs ; anterior portion to behind the callosities, 

 and a transverse streak across the centre of the posterior 

 portion, not reaching to the margin, black. Scutellum black, 

 base narrowly and somewhat indistinctly fuscous yellow. 

 Elytra black. Corium, base with a somewhat triangular 

 yellowish-brown patch. Membrane black. Sternum, legs, 

 and abdomen black. 



Length 6|-7 lines. 



