HEMIPTERA. 443 



* Head unarmed. 



1. LAGARIA varicornis. PI. XIII. fig. 4. 



Coreus varicornis, Hope, Cat. 22 (1842). 



a. Brazil. From M. Mornay's Collection. 



b. British Guiana. Presented by Sir Robert Schomburgk. 



c. . 



2. LAGARIA ? africana, n. s. 



L. supra pallide fusca, punctata, subtus lutea, lineis transversis 

 nigris ; humeris prominulis ; antennarum articulis 1 et 2 nigris, 

 geniculis pallidis (reliquis detritis). ? . 

 Long. lin. 6. 



Above pale brown, thickly and finely punctured with blown. 

 Thorax with the lateral angles somewhat prominent and acute. 

 Membrane of the elytra brownish, transparent, with a blackish 

 mark on the inner basal angle. Body beneath yellow. Abdomen 

 impunctate, with a transverse black line on each side of the base 

 of each segment. Breast thickly and finely punctured, with a 

 transverse black line on each side of the medi- and post-pectora. 

 Legs pale fulvous, with the thighs darker. Antennae with the 

 two basal joints black, with the tip of the first joint and the 

 base and apex of the second fulvous ; third and fourth joints 

 wanting. 



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



f Head armed with a small spine on each side a little above the 

 insertion of each antenna. 



3. LAGARIA bellator. 



Coreus bellator, Fab. E. S. iv. 128. 5 (1794) $ S. R. 194. 13 



(1803). 

 Gonocerus puncticornis, H. Sch. Wanz. vii. 12. t. 220. fig. 689 



(1844). 



a. Venezuela. From Mr. Dyson's Collection. 



b. Brazil. From Mr. Children's Collection. 



Genus 5. HOMCEOCERUS. 



Homceocerus, p., Eurm. Handb. ii. 316 (1835); Am. fy Serv. 

 Hem. 203(1843); Spin. Tav. Sin. Hem. 41 (1850). 



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