HEMIPTERA. 



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1. BARDISTUS serrulatus. PL XII. fig. 3. 

 Coreus serrulatus, Perty, Del. An. Art. 169. t.33. fig. 14 (1830). 

 Cerbus umbrinus, Burm. Handb. ii. 340. 2? (1835); H. Sch. 

 Wanz. vi. 61. tab. 200. fig. 623 (1842). 

 a. S. America. 



Genus 3. DALADER. 



Acanonicus, p., Westw. Hope's Cat. (1842). 

 Dalader, Am. fy Serv. Hem. 187 (1843). 



1. DALADER acuticosta. 



Dalader acuticosta, Am. fy Serv. Hem. 188. 1 . pi. 4. fig. 7 (1843). 



a. Silhet. 



b. Silhet. From Mr. Stainforth's Collection. 



c. Assam. 



d. N. India. From Capt. Boys' Collection. 

 e. India. 



2. DALADER planiventris. 



Acanonicus planiventris, Hope, Cat. 8 (1842). 

 Dalader rotundicosta, Am. fy Serv. Hem. 188. 2 (1843). 

 a. Silhet. 



3. DALADER africanus, n. s. 



D. fuse us, obscurus, punctatus ; lobis thoracis rotundatis, nigri- 

 cantibus ; antennis nigricantibus, articulo ultimo testaceo, basi 

 fusco, tertio compresso, vix dilatato. <J ? . 

 Long. lin. 16. 



Brown, obscure, very thickly and finely punctured. Head rather 

 dark ; antenniferous tubercles touching one another in front. 

 Thorax somewhat rugose, with the teeth on the lateral margins 

 yellow; the lateral processes rounded, somewhat truncated in 

 front, blackish, especially on the edges. Scutellum somewhat 

 wrinkled transversely. Coriaceous portion of the elytra with a 

 small whitish point near the middle of the apical margin ; mem- 

 brane with numerous nervures, much reticulated. Abdomen very 

 broad. Body beneath rather paler and more obscure than above. 

 Tibiae incurved, especially in the male ; tarsi pale ; claws brown. 

 Rostrum brown. Antennae with the first three joints blackish, 

 rough, the third compressed, but very slightly dilated; apical 

 joint pale testaceous with the base brownish. 



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



