398 HEMIPTERA. 



vures nearly black ; membrane brassy blackish brown. Margins 

 of the abdomen banded with yellow and brown. Body beneath 

 paler than above, thickly clothed with whitish hairs, and with 

 numerous scattered black or dark brown points, some of which 

 are elevated, others impressed. Second abdominal segment 

 shorter than the rest, elevated or tubercular in the centre in the 

 male. Anterior and intermediate thighs dull fulvous, with a 

 double row of small black spines beneath, and one or two rows 

 of smaller ones on the upper surface ; tibiae pale brown ; poste- 

 rior thighs much thickened, concolorous with the body, with the 

 tip and a band about the middle blackish; under surface with 

 two rows of black spines, of which those at the middle of the 

 thigh are the largest, those between these and the apex the 

 smallest ; upper surface with three or four irregular rows of small 

 black tubercles ; posterior tibiae much dilated internally, the di- 

 lated portion widest about one-third (?) or one-fourth ( <? ) of 

 the length of the tibia from the base, forming the first tooth, 

 which is notched in the male, acute in the female ; in the male 

 there are two large contiguous spines rather behind the middle, 

 a smaller spine between these and the apex, and another at the 

 apex ; in the female the second tooth is placed about the middle, 

 and is separated from the first by a semicircular emargination ; 

 a small spine is placed close to the base of the second, a smaller 

 one between this and the apex, and another at the apex ; tarsi 

 pale fulvous, with a brown band along each side ; claws blackish. 

 Rostrum testaceous, with the tip and a mark on the second and 

 third joints black. Antennae black. 



The specimen of the female is immature and much paler in 

 colour than the male. 



a. India. From Mr. Wooley's Collection. 



b. India. 



34. MICTIS grossa, n. s. 



M. praecedenti valde aifinis ; differt statura majori, pedibus anti- 

 cis et intermediis crassioribus, laete fulvis, nigro-spinosis, un- 

 guiculis nigris. $ . 

 Long. lin. 16. 



a. . Presented by General Thomas Hardwicke. 



35. MICTIS valida, n. s. 



M. nigra, subnitida; humeris spinosis; pedibus anticis et inter- 

 mediis fulvis, geniculis, tibiis tarsisque apice nigris ; antenna- 

 rum articulo tertio basi fulvo. 3 . 

 Long. lin. 11J. 



Rather broader than the preceding species, black, somewhat 



