HEMIPTERA. 2?1 



c. Ceylon. Presented by Miss K. Wenham. 



d. Silhet. From Mr. Sowerby's Collection. 



e. Ceylon. From the Rev. J. Wenham's Collection. 

 /. Corea. Presented by Capt. Sir Edward Belcher. 

 g. Ceylon. Presented by Dr. J. Hooker. 



h. Madras. Presented by Mrs. Capt. Hamilton. 



i. Philippine Islands. From Mr. Cuming's Collection. 



k. Bombay. Presented by Walter Elliott, Esq. 



I. Bengal. Presented by General Thomas Hardwicke. 



CATACANTHUS nigripes. 



Cimex nigripes, Sulz. Gesch. Ins. 96. t. 10. fig. 9 (1776). 



Cimex punctum, Fab. E. S. iv. 105. 100 (1794). 



Edessa punctum, Fab. S. R. 149. 16 (1803). 



Raphigaster Carrenoi, LeGuillou, Rev. Zool. iv. 262. 9 (1841). 



Stoll. Pun. 29. pi. 6. fig. 40. 



I a. New Holland. 

 b. Philippine Islands. From Mr. Cuming's Collection. 

 c. Louisiade Islands. Presented by John MacGillivray, Esq. 

 Abdominal spine obsolete or merely indicated. (CHALCOCORIS, 

 White, MSS.) 



3. CATACANTHUS ? anchorago. 



Cnnex anchorago, Drury, Ins. iii. 66. pi. 46. fig. 5 (1782). 

 Cimex rutilans, Fab. E. S. iv. 108. 108 (1794). 

 Edessa rutilans, Fab. S. R. 151. 25 (1803). 

 Stoll, Pun. 72. pi. 18. fig. 122. 



I a. West Africa. Presented by B. Frend, Esq. 

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

 ,. 

 Genus 28. VULSIREA. 



Cimex, p., Fab. Ent. Syst. iv. (1794) # Syst. R. (1803) ; Burm. 



Handb. ii. (1835). 

 Edessa, p., Fab. Syst. R. (1803). 

 Vulsirea. Spin. Hem. 350 (1837) ; Am. $ Serv. Hem. 142 (1843); 



H. Sch. Wanz. viii. (1845). 



* Lateral angles of the thorax unarmed. ( VULSIREA, pr.) 

 1. VULSIREA nigrorubra. 



Vulsirea nigrorubra, Spin. Hem. 351. 2 (1837); Am. & Serv. 

 Hem. 143. 1 (1843). 

 a. Cuba. Presented by M. Guerin-Meneville. 



