HEMIPTERA. 3.93 



and finely punctured and covered with very minute yellow hairs ; 

 the nervures slightly elevated and smooth ; membrane brassy 

 brown. Abdomen above black ; beneath blackish or pitchy 

 brown, finely granulose and clothed with fine short yellowish 

 hairs. Breast blackish, with the antepectus brown, and a large 

 pale spot on each aperture of the odoriferous apparatus. Legs 

 pitchy brown ; posterior thighs thickened, with a minute spine 

 at the base, a broad triangular tooth a little behind the middle 

 and a small tooth close to the apex. Rostrum brown, with the 

 tip black. Antennae pitchy, with the last joint orange, dusky 

 towards the tip. 



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



II. Posterior tibia dilated on both sides in both sexes ; spinous 

 internally in the male. (PI. XII. fig. 5.) 



23. MICTIS valgus. 



Cimex valgus, Linn. M. L. U. 171 (1764) & S. N. i. 720. 36 



(1767). 



Lygasus valgus, Fab. E. S. iv. 133. 1 (1794) fy S. R. 203. 1 (1803). 

 Cerbus valgus, Hahn, Wanz. i. 14. t. 2. fig. 7 ( <? ) (1831) ; Burm. 



Handb. ii. 340. 4 (1835) ; H. Sch. Wanz. vi. 28. t. 190. fig. 586 



(?)&B.(<? abd.)(1842). 

 Mictis valgus, Am. $ Serv. Hem. 190. 1 (1843). 



a. Cape of Good Hope. Presented by General Thomas 



Hardwicke. 



b. Cape of Good Hope. Presented by R. W. Townsend, 



Esq. 



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



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



e. S. Africa. Presented by G. F. Angas, Esq. 

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



24. MICTIS atramentaria. 



Cerbus atramentarius, Germ. Silb. Rev. Ent. v. 155. 76 (1837). 

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



25. MICTIS alata. 



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



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

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



26. MICTIS dilatata, n. s. 



M. prsecedentibus affinis; thorace alato, marginibus dentatis; 

 tibiis omnibus dilatatis. 3 ? . 

 Long. lin. 101-11. 



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