CERBUS FLAVEOLUS. 275 



according to Mr.Westwood, may possibly be referrible 

 to the genus Cerbus. It is a native of Sierra Leone, 

 about an inch in length, and the greater part of the 

 surface brown ; the thorax margined with yellow, 

 and the coriaceous portion of the hemelytra bordered 

 behind and along the apex with a band of the same 

 colour ; head and abdomen red; legs yellowish brown, 

 the colour deepening towards the foot. 



ANISOSCELES HYMENIPHERA. 

 PLATE XX. Fig. 3. 



FOB a figure and the following notice of this new 

 I species of Anisosceles, we are indebted to Mr. West- 

 Iwood, in whose cabinet the specimen is preserved. 

 I The genus must now be restricted to such kinds as 

 Uave long and slender legs, and the posterior tibiae 

 I furnished with a broad membranous appendage on 

 ch side. The type is the common Brazilian Ly- 

 Igaeus bilineatus, Fabr (Diactor elegans, Perty ; Anis- 

 Ls. latifolia, Serville.) Another species is the A. la- 

 Itipes, (Guerin's Mag. Zool. pi. 75,) from Mexico. 

 lA. third species, und escribed, closely allied to the 

 latter, but smaller, with the thorax and hemelytra 

 Entirely fulvous red, and the legs entirely pale ochre- 

 |ms, is contained in the collection of the Jardin des 

 D lantes, and to which the specific name of affinis 

 aay be applied. The species here figured is a native 

 |>f Mexico ; it is about nine lines long, fulvo-testa- 

 ous, the thorax with a black line behind, but the 

 nargin itself yellow ; scutellum black, the edges and 

 central line yellow legs yellow, with black lines, 



