388 HEMIPTERA. 



7. MICTIS compressa, n. s. 



M. fusca, opaca, pilosa ; antennis corporis dimidio longioribus, 

 nigris, articulo ultimo fascia lata ante medium, apiceque ex- 

 tremo, fulvis. S . 

 Long. lin. 9. 



Brown, opaque, thickly and very finely punctured, and clothed 

 with very short whitish hairs. Thorax with the lateral margins 

 straight, smooth, the lateral angles rounded ; across near the 

 posterior margin is a faint ridge, at each end of which is a slight 

 pit. Scutellum slightly margined on each side. Membrane of 

 the elytra deep brassy brown. Margins of the abdomen with a 

 white point at the junction of each segment. Abdomen with the 

 central portion compressed, the sides flattened ; posterior margin 

 of the second segment produced in a large tooth which reaches 

 the posterior margin of the following segment, is much widened 

 posteriorly, and has its posterior margin raised into a trans- 

 verse ridge ; the surface covered with minute granulations, and 

 with three small points on each side at the base of the second 

 segment behind the posterior coxae. Breast with a yellowish 

 spot on each side on the aperture of the odoriferous apparatus. 

 Legs brown ; anterior and intermediate pairs paler, with the tips 

 of the tibiae and the tarsi blackish ; posterior thighs much thick- 

 ened, curved near the base, with a large triangular tooth a little 

 behind the middle, a smaller and more acute tooth close to 

 the apex, and a small tubercle at the base, the surface covered 

 with minute elevations and clothed with very short hairs ; poste- 

 rior tibiae compressed, thinnest at the base, widest at about one- 

 fourth of their length from the base, then of nearly the same 

 width to the apex, which is notched with the inner angle some- 

 what spinous; tarsi blackish. Rostrum brown, with the tip 

 black. Antennae rather more than half the length of the body ; 

 three basal joints black ; last joint with a broad, deep orange 

 band near the base, and the extreme tip orange. 



a. N. India. Presented by Francis Walker, Esq. 



8. MICTIS annulicornis. 



Cerbus annulicornis, Germ. Silb. Rev. Ent. v. 156. 78 (1837). 

 Myctis varicornis, Hope, Cat. 12? (1842). 



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



9. MICTIS nigricornis. 



Cerbus nigricornis, Germ. Silb. Rev. Ent. v. 1 56. 77. ? (183?). 

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



