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28. MICTIS Rothii, n. s. 



M. nigra, humeris prominentibus truncatis; elytrorum corio, 

 antennisque rubris; pedibus rubro nigroque plus minusve 

 variis. $ ? . 

 Long. lin. 13-14. 



Head black, with the antenniferous tubercles red. Thorax 

 black, thickly punctured and slightly rugose, with two red spots 

 close to the anterior margin, which, however, are sometimes 

 wanting, and sometimes two indistinct red spots near the hinder 

 margin ; the lateral angles produced into broad, flat, somewhat 

 obliquely truncated and slightly denticulated lobes. Scutellum 

 black, finely wrinkled, with a reddish point at the apex. Coria- 

 ceous portion of the elytra red, thickly and rather finely rugoso- 

 >unctate, with the nervures elevated and smooth ; membrane 

 leep black. Margins of the abdomen projecting slightly beyond 

 the elytra, especially in the female, emarginate at the junction 

 if each segment towards the apex. Body beneath black, slightly 

 shining. Abdomen impunctate, faintly wrinkled, with a tubercle 

 on each side on the second and third segments, largest in the 

 male; posterior margin of the last segment red. Breast rugose ; 

 antepectus punctured. Anterior and intermediate legs red, with 

 the base of the thighs black, or with the thighs black, or the 

 knees and tibiae black or blackish ; posterior thighs much thick- 

 ened and curved in the male, less thickened and nearly straight 

 in the female, red, with the base and apex black ; posterior tibiae 

 black, with the inner margin more or less marked with red, 

 very broad in both sexes ; in the male with a small tooth on the 

 inner margin near the apex, and the outer apical angle spinous ; 

 in the female with the outer margin slightly waved, the apex 

 iunded. Rostrum pitchy black. Antennas red ; last joint wanting. 

 a. Abyssinia. Presented by the Hon. East India Company. 



29. MICTIS undata, n. s. 



M. piceo-nigra, opaca; humeris prominentibus subacutis, ser- 

 ratis ; antennis elongatis, fulvis ; tibiarum posticarum margi- 

 nibus undatis. $ . 

 Long. lin. 11. 



Pitchy black, opaque, punctured. Head thickly clothed with 

 very minute whitish hairs. Thorax with the lateral angles di- 

 lated into broad, flat, subacute, serrated processes ; the surface 

 somewhat granulose. Scutellum rather elongate, wrinkled, with 

 the tip whitish. Coriaceous portion of the elytra thickly and 

 finely punctured, and clothed with short golden hairs ; the ner- 

 vures slightly elevated and smooth ; membrane brassy. Margins 



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