HEMIPTERA. 403 



b. Lateral angles of the thorax prominent, acute or spinous. 



47. MICTIS serina, n. s. 



M. fusca, opaca; humeris prominentibus subacutis; antennis 

 fere corporis longitudine, nigris, articulo ultimo fulvo, basi 

 nigro. ? . 

 Long. lin. 12J. 



Rather broad, brown, opaque, clothed with short golden hairs. 

 Eyes blackish. Thorax with the lateral margins smooth, the 

 lateral angles prominent, scarcely acute ; surface with numerous 

 minute tubercles, with a faint central longitudinal impression, 

 and a slight transverse elevated line near the posterior margin. 

 Scutellum with a slightly elevated central longitudinal line. 

 Back of the abdomen pitchy black, with the margins brown. 

 Breast with a small fulvous spot on each side close to the odori- 

 ferous aperture. Legs brown; anterior and intermediate tibiae 

 somewhat fulvous ; posterior thighs not much thickened, keeled 

 above and below, and with an obtuse tooth near the apex ; tibiae 

 long and slender, compressed, channelled on each side ; tarsi ful- 

 vous ; claws dark brown. Rostrum, reaching the base of the 

 intermediate legs, dark brown, with the tip blackish. Antennae 

 very long, nearly as long as the body ; first three joints black ; 

 fourth orange, with the base black. 



a. China. Presented by J. C. Bowring, Esq. 



48. MICTIS fulvicornis. 



Lygjeus fulvicornis, Fab. E. S.iv. 136. 7 (1794) & S. R. 204. 6 



(1803). 



Cerbus fulvicornis, Halm, Wanz. i. 7. t. 1. fig. 1 (1831). 

 Cerbus tenebrosus, Burm. Handb. ii. 340. 5 (1835); H. Sck. 



Wanz. vi. 22. t. 187. fig. 5/8 & t. 190. fig. C. (<?) 62. t. 198. 



fig. 624 (?) (1842). 



Myctis longicornis, Hope, Cat. 11 (1842). 

 StoU, Pun. 105. pi. 27. fig. 188. 



a. Philippine Islands. From Mr. Cuming's Collection. 



b. Java. From the East India Company's Collection. 



c. Java. From Mr. Melly's Collection. 



d. Java. Presented by James Wilson, Esq. 



49. MICTIS gallina, n. s. 



M. elongata, fusca, opaca ; thoracis angulis prominentibus acutis, 

 marginibus denticulatis ; pectore utrmque macula magnaalba ; 

 tibiis posticis apice, tarsisque fulvis. $ . 

 Long. lin. 13. 



