HEMIPTERA. 38? 



Above brown, obscure, thickly and finely punctured and clothed 

 with very short greyish hairs. Coriaceous portion of the elytra 

 with a whitish line formed of close hairs along the apical margin ; 

 membrane dark brown, somewhat brassy. Back of the abdomen 

 red, with a black spot at the apex; margins brown. Body be- 

 neath rather paler than above, thickly clothed with greyish hairs. 

 Legs blackish, or the anterior and intermediate pairs brown with 

 the tarsi blackish ; posterior thighs much thickened in the male, 

 with a somewhat obtuse tooth behind the middle, and a smaller 

 one near the apex. Rostrum brownish fulvous with the tip 

 black. Antennae bright orange, with the tips of the second and 

 third joints black. 



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



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



4. MICTIS similis, n. s. 



M. precedent! affinis, sed major et minus pilosa; antennis fulvis, 

 articulis 2 et 3 apice nigris. $ . 

 Long. lin. 9. 



This species closely resembles the preceding. The tooth of the 

 posterior margin of the second segment of the abdomen is short 

 and but slightly elevated, and on each side of it, on the base of 

 the third segment, are three small points similar to those on the 

 base of the second. 



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



5. MICTIS inconspicua, n. s. 



M. prsecedentibus valde affinis ; antennis crassioribus, nigris, 

 articulo ultimo basi fulvo, apice obscuro. 3 . 

 Long. lin. 8. 



Closely resembles the preceding, and agrees with them in 

 colour and in the structure of the hind legs ; but the tooth of 

 the posterior margin of the second segment of the abdomen is 

 much less produced than in M. similis, and not elevated; the 

 antennae are stouter and rougher, with the three basal joints 

 black, the apical one dull fulvous at the base, dusky at the 

 apex. 



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



6. MICTIS ventralis. 



Myctis ventralis, Hope, Cat. 13 (1842). 



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



b. S. Africa. Presented by Dr. Andrew Smith. 



c. Cape of Good Hope. From M. Drege's Collection, 



