HEMIPTERA. 



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surface ; membrane blackish. Back of the abdomen red, with the 

 margins pale brown ; the apex and a narrow submarginal line on 

 each side black. Body beneath pale brown ; abdomen somewhat 

 fulvous, very thickly and finely punctured with brown. Legs 

 chestnut-brown; thighs sometimes blackish at the apex. An- 

 tennae brownish red, with the basal joint dusky ; the tips of the 

 second and third joints and the whole of the fourth, black. 

 a. S. Africa. 



3. PHILONUS insubidus. 



Homceocerus insubidus, Germ. Silb. Rev. Ent. v. 147. 62 (1837). 

 a. Cape of Good Hope. From M. Drege's Collection. 



4. PHILONUS? punctatus, n. s. 



P. supra livido-testaceus, subtus ochreus, fusco-punctatus ; an- 

 tennis fusco-ferrugineis, articulo basali testaceo, secundo tertio 

 vix longiore. <? ? . 

 Long. lin. 5-6. 



Above livid testaceous, thickly and finely punctured with 

 brown. Membrane brownish. Abdomen above orange, with the 

 margins ochreous. Body beneath ochreous, thickly and finely 

 punctured, the punctures brownish on the sides. Abdomen with 

 a row of black points down each side. Breast with a black point 

 on each side of each segment. Legs fulvous. Antennae ferru- 

 ginous or brownish ; basal joint testaceous ; second joint scarcely 

 longer than the third. 



a. Cape of Good Hope. From M. Drege's Collection. 



Family 4. ANISOSCELID^E. 



Head more or less triangular, with the lateral lobes produced 

 in front of the antenniferous tubercles ; central lobe reaching the 

 apex of the head. Eyes moderate, not very prominent. Ocelli 

 distant*. Antennae with the apical joint generally longer than 

 the preceding, never both shorter and thicker. Membrane of 

 the elytra with some of the nervures more or less furcate. 



Anisoscelides, Alydides, p., et Coreides, p., Am. fy Serv. Hem. 



(1843). < 

 A nisosceloideae, p., Spin. Tav. Sin. Hem. (in. Mem. Soc. Ital. Sci. 



Modena, xxv. (1850). 



* In the following family, the genus Hypselopus has the ocelli rather 

 nearer the eyes than to each other ; but in other respects its characters 

 agree with those of the Alydidae. 



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