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clothed with minute yellow hairs. Thorax covered with small 

 raised points ; the lateral margins denticulated, the lateral 

 angles very prominent and acute. Scutellum with a transverse 

 ridge at the base ; the tip pale. Coriaceous portion of the elytra 

 with a broad fulvous band running from the outer basal angle to 

 the inner apical angle, and a similar band on the apical margin, 

 the bands of the two elytra forming a cross, as in the preceding 

 species ; membrane black. Margins of the abdomen pitchy red. 

 Abdomen beneath dull red, clothed with minute yellowish hairs; 

 second segment in the male with a strong obtuse black tubercle 

 on each side, and with the centre of its posterior margin pro- 

 duced into a slight ridge, much less prominent than in the pre- 

 ceding species ; second segment in the female with a slight 

 ridge-like tubercle on each side. Breast black, with the centre 

 red ; orifices of the odoriferous apparatus dull orange. Legs 

 black, with the tarsi dark brown ; posterior pair more elongated 

 and less thickened than in the preceding species ; posterior 

 thighs denticulated beneath, longer in the female than in the 

 male ; posterior tibiae in the male much dilated from the base to 

 beyond the middle, on the inner margin, with the dilated por- 

 tion terminated by a strong spine ; in the female much longer 

 than in the male, or in the female of the preceding species, their 

 dilated portion reaching to about the middle. Antennae longer 

 than in the preceding species, nearly as long as the body, pitchy 

 black, with the apical joint bright orange. 



. N. Holland. Presented by Sir John Richardson, M.D. 



53. MICTIS crux, n. s. 



M. praecedentibus et praecipue M. prof ana affinis ; differt statura 

 minori, antennis fere corporis longitudine et tibiarum posti- 

 carum parte dilatata breviori. 3 ? . 

 Long. lin. 9-9. 



This species is very nearly allied to Mictis prof ana, and agrees 

 with it in general form and colouring. It is a smaller and more 

 slender species, with the lateral angles of the thorax more acute ; 

 the antennae longer in proportion, brown, with the apical joint 

 orange, dusky at the tip ; the posterior thighs less dilated, espe- 

 cially in the female ; the spine on the inner margin of the poste- 

 rior tibiae in the male placed before the middle, and the dilata- 

 tion of the tibiae in the female much smaller. 

 a. Navigators' Islands. 



