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broadly pale fulvous, forming together a cross; the remainder 

 chestnut-brown, thickly and somewhat irregularly punctured; 

 membrane dark brown, brassy. Abdomen beneath paler or darker 

 chestnut-brown, more or less wrinkled and granulated; in the 

 male with an acute black tubercle on each side on the second 

 and third segments, and the anal plate black ; in the female with 

 slight black elevations in the place of the tubercles, and the vul- 

 var plates black. Breast pale fulvous, opaque ; antepectus punc- 

 tured. Anterior and intermediate legs pale fulvous; posterior 

 legs chestnut-brown; thighs considerably thickened in both sexes; 

 tibiae in the male with the inner margin toothed near the apex, 

 the outer apical angle acute ; in the female, with the margins 

 entire, the extremity of the outer dilatation rounded ; tarsi ful- 

 vous ; posterior coxae and trochanters black or blackish. Ros- 

 trum brownish fulvous. Antennae long and rather slender, pale 

 fulvous. 



a. Congo. Presented by Sir John Richardson, M.D. 



III. Posterior tibice dilated internally in both sexes; the dilated 

 portion more or less toothed or spinous. (PI. XII. fig. 6.) 



a. Lateral angles of the thorax unarmed or simply spinous; 

 posterior tibia more or less dilated to the apex, and armed 

 with several strong spines. 



32. MICTIS dentipes. 



Mictis dentipes, Am. Sf Serv. Hem. 190. 2. pi. 4. fig. 10 (1843). 

 a. India. From Archdeacon Clerk's Collection. 



33. MICTIS calcar, n. s. 



M. pallide fusca, opaca, humeris acutis ; thorace punctis fuscis, 

 lateribus nigro-denticulatis ; antennis nigris; femoribus anti- 

 cis fulvis, spinulis nigris, tibiis obscuris. c? ? . 

 Long. lin. 13. 



Pale brown, opaque, more or less clothed with yellow hairs. 

 Head black, with a broad yellowish brown line down the centre, 

 and an angular spot of the same colour surrounding each of the 

 ocelli. Eyes reddish brown. Thorax thickly clothed with very- 

 short yellowish hairs, and with numerous blackish or dark brown 

 points; lateral margins denticulated, the teeth black, rather 

 distant at the base ; lateral angles prominent, each terminated 

 by an acute spine, which is directed backwards and tipped with 

 black. Scutellum brown, with the edges clothed with golden 

 hairs. Coriaceous portion of the elytra brown, rather thickly and 

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



