HEMIPTERA. 391 



short yellow hairs. Scutellum with the disc very thickly clothed 

 with yellow hairs. Membrane of the elytra black. Abdomen 

 above black. Body beneath with a pale dull yellow band down 

 each side. Legs black ; tarsi concolorous. Antennae about half 

 the length of the body, black, with the last joint deep fulvous, 

 dusky in the middle. 



a. Port Natal. From Dr. Krauss' Collection. 



b. Lateral angles of the thorax spinous. 



18. MICTIS pectoralis. 



Cerbus pectoralis, Germ. Silb. Rev. Ent. v. 154. 74 (1837). 

 Myctis parallelus, Hope, Cat. 12 (1842). 



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



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



19. MICTIS nigrita, n. s. 



M. praecedenti valde affinis; differt statura graciliori, thoracis 

 lateribus fere rectis, et femoribus posticis minus incrassatis. $ . 

 Long. lin. 12. 



Pitchy black, somewhat opaque. Thorax rather finely rugose- 

 punctate ; the lateral margins nearly straight ; lateral angles pro- 

 minent, acute, slightly turned upwards. Scutellum rather small, 

 rugose -punctate. Coriaceous portion of the elytra pitchy, very 

 thickly and finely punctured, with the nervures slightly elevated 

 and smooth ; membrane somewhat opaque. Margins of the ab- 

 domen with an indistinct whitish point at the junction of each 

 segment. Abdomen beneath black in the centre and along the 

 lateral margins, the longitudinal impression on each side reddish ; 

 the surface with numerous minute granulations and clothed with 

 very small yellow hairs ; posterior margin of the second segment 

 with a large broad elevated tooth, of a rounded pentagonal form, 

 the margins of which have a raised border. Breast pitchy brown, 

 opaque, with the centre black, smooth and somewhat shining ; 

 apertures of the odoriferous apparatus surrounded by a dull 

 orange spot. Legs pitchy black, opaque ; posterior thighs con- 

 siderably thickened, but much less so than in M. pectoralis ; the 

 surface minutely granulated ; the lower margin produced into a 

 broad, acute, triangular tooth ; posterior tibiae compressed, stout, 

 very little wider towards the base. Rostrum brown, with the tip 

 black. Antennae rather stout, more than half the length of the 

 body ; first three joints black, fourth orange. 



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



