HEMIPTERA. 355 



testaceous, with the tip of the third and base of the fourth joints 

 ferruginous, the apex of the fourth and the whole of the fifth 

 black. 



a. S. Africa. Presented by the Earl of Derby. 



9. PHYLLOCEPHALA antica, n. s. 



P. pallide fusca, punctata, capite thoraceque antice subtestaceis ; 

 thoracis margine laterali antice paullo reflexo, nigro ; pedibus 

 testaceis, tibiis apice, tarsisque fuscescentibus ; antennis fuscis, 

 basi pallidis. ? . 

 Long. lin. 6^. 



Above pale brown, thickly and finely punctured. Head and 

 anterior portion of the thorax testaceous, as far as a curved line 

 which runs from behind one lateral angle to the same part on the 

 opposite side ; anterior portion of the lateral margins slightly re- 

 flexed, blackish. Membrane of the elytra brownish semitrans- 

 parent, covered with fine black points. Body beneath rather 

 paler than on the upper surface. Legs testaceous ; thighs 

 streaked with brown ; tibiae at the apex and tarsi brown. Ros- 

 trum testaceous. Antennae dark brown, with the two basal joints 

 testaceous. 



a. Congo. Presented by Sir John Richardson, M.D. 



10. PHYLLOCEPHALA signata. 



Cimex signatus, Fab. E. S. iv. 113. 127 (1794) & S. R. 169. 76 

 (1803). 



a. Gambia. From Mr. RendalFs Collection. 



Genus 3. PLATACANTHA. 

 Platacantha, H. Sch. Wanz. vii. 124. t. 241. fig. B (1844). 



1. PLATACANTHA lutea. 



Raphigaster luteus et transversalis, Hope, Cat. 31 (1837). 

 Edessa cerea, Germ. Silb. Rev. Ent. v. 161. 86 (1837). 

 Platacantha cerea, H. Sch. Wanz. vii. 124. t. 241. fig. 750 (1844). 



a. S. Africa. Presented by Dr. A. Smith. 



b. S. Africa. 



Genus 4. TETRODA. 



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

 Tetroda, Am. fy Serv.Hem. 177 (1843). 

 Phyllocephala, p., H. Sch. Wanz. vii. (1844). 



