8 HEMIPTERA. 



Resembles the preceding in form and general colour. Thorax 

 with a broad, semicircular, yellow line, uniting the postero-lateral 

 margins and touching the anterior margin. Scutellum with the 

 basal half of the lateral margins yellow ; two spots of the same 

 colour on the disc about the middle, and three others across near 

 the apex, of which the lateral ones touch the outer margin. Ab- 

 domen beneath pale brown, with the sides finely punctured, the 

 disc smooth; stigmata black. Breast, legs, rostrum and basal 

 joint of antennae pale brown ; the remainder of the antennae, and 

 the apices of the tarsi, black. 



a. Congo. Presented by Sir John Richardson. 



3. SPH^EROCORIS ocellatus. 



Tetyra ocellata, King, Symb. Phys. Dec. v. t. 43. fig. 1-3 (1834). 

 Sphaerocoris ocellatus, Burm. Handb. ii. 391. 1 (1835); Am. fy 



Serv. Hem. 40. 1 (1843). 

 Pachycoris ocellatus, Germ. Zeits. 82. 1 (1839). 



a. Africa. From Mr. Children's Collection. 



b. S. Africa. From Dr. Krauss's Collection. 



c. Africa. 



4. SPHAEROCORIS annulus. 



Cimex annulus, Fab. E. S. iv. 82. 10 (1794). 



Cimex Argus, Panz. Voet Col. iv. 111. 9. t.47- fig. 9 (1798). 



Tetyra annulus, Fab. S. R. 132. 20 (1803) ; Schiodte, Kroy. Tijds. 



iv. 289. 9 (1842). 



Cimex Argus, Drury, Ins. iii. pi. 46. fig. 9 (1782). 

 Scutellera gibbosa, Pal. Beauv. Ins. 232. Hem. pi. 5. fig. 3 



(1805). 



Sphaerocoris annularis, Hope, Cat. 13 (1837). 

 Sphaerocoris annulus, H. Schdff. iii. 105. t. 106. fig. 330 (1836); 



Am. fy Serv. Hem. 41. 2 (1843). 



Pachycoris annulus et annularis, Germ. Zeits. i. 83. 2 & 3 (1839). 

 Sphaerocoris ocellatus, H. Schaff. Wanz. v. 49 (1839). 

 Stoll, Pun. 148. pi. 37. fig. 268. 



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



b. Gambia. From Mr. Kendall's Collection. 



c. Dix Cove, W. Africa. From Capt. Parry's Collection, 



d. Africa. From Mr. Children's Collection. 



5. SPHAEROCORIS Argus. 



Cimex multipunctatus, Thunb. Nov. Ins. Sp. 30 (1783). 

 Cimex Argus, Fab. E. S. iv. 83. 15 (1794). 

 Tetyra Argus, Fab. S. R. 133. 24 (1803) ; Schiodte, Kroy. Tijds. 

 iv. 292. 10 (1842). 



