386 HEMIPTERA. 



punctured, with the nervures paler, elevated and smooth ; mem- 

 brane pale brown. Wings pale brown, semitransparent, with the 

 nervures darker, red at the base. Abdomen above reddish orange ; 

 margins reddish brown. Body beneath dull reddish orange. 

 Abdomen smooth and shining, impunctate. Breast thickly and 

 rather coarsely punctured. Legs concolorous with the under side 

 of the body ; tips of the posterior thighs black. Rostrum and 

 antennae of the same colour (last joint of the antennae wanting). 



a. . 



3. MELUCHA dilatata. 



Lygseus dilatatus, Fab. E. S. Supp. 538. 20 (1798) & S. R. 211. 



29? (1803). 



Nematopus dilatatus, Burm. Handb. ii. 337. 4 (1835). 

 Stoll, Pun. 158. pi. 39. fig. 284. 



a. Para. From Messrs. Wallace and Bates' Collection. 



b. . From Mr. Shuckard's Collection. 



Genus 10. MICTIS. 



Cimex, p., Linn. Syst. Nat. i. (1767). 



Lygseus, p., Fab. Ent.. Syst. iv. (1794) fy Syst. Rh. (1803). 



Mictis, Leach, Zool. Misc. i. 92 (1814); Am. fy Serv. Hem. 189 



(1843); H. Sch. Wanz. ix. 237 (1850) & 246 (1851). 

 Cerbus, Hahn, Wanz. i. (1831); Burm. Handb. ii. 339 (1835); 



Spin. Hem. 134 (1837). 

 Paryphes, p., Burm. Handb. ii. (1835). 

 Archimerus, p., Spin. Tav. Sin. Hem. 40 (1850). 



I. Posterior tibice more or less dilated on their inner margin 

 throughout their whole length in both sexes j not spinous. 

 (PL XII. fig. 4.) 



a. Thorax unarmed. 



1. MICTIS bellicosa. 



Lygseus bellicosus, Fab. E. S. iv. 145. 36 (1794) fy S. R. 215. 47 

 "(1803). 



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



2. MICTIS apicalis. 



Cerbus apicalis, Germ. Silb. Rev. Ent. v. 157. 79 (1837). 

 a. Cape of Good Hope. From M. Drege's Collection. 



3. MICTIS pagana, n. s. 



M. praecedenti aifinis, fusca, obscura, punctata, pilosa ; antennis 

 ferrugineo-fulvis, articulis 2 et 3 apice nigris. c? ? . 

 Long. lin. 6f-7. 



