HEMIPTERA. 451 



Diactor elegans, Perty, Del. An. Art. 170. t. 34. fig. 1 (1834). 

 Anisoscelis bilineata, Burm. Handb. ii. 333. 6 (1835); H. Sch. 



Wanz. iii. 60. t. 91. fig. 274 (1836). 

 Diactor bilineatus, Am. % Serv. Hem. 218. 1 (1843). 



a. Brazil. Presented by Sir C. Stewart. 



b. Brazil. Presented by General Thomas Hardwicke. 



c. Brazil. From Mr. Children's, Collection. 



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



e. S. America. Presented by Sir A. Calcott. 

 f. (Larvae.) 



2. DIACTOR foliaceus. 



Lygseus foliaceus, Fab. S. R. 210. 28 (1803). 

 Stoll, Pun. 112. pi. 28. fig. 201. 



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



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



c. Brazil. 



d. Para. Presented by Gordon Graham, Esq. 



e. Guayaquil. Presented by Dr. Joseph Hooker. 



3. DIACTOR rufus, n. s. 



D. supra rufus, subtus laste fulvus ; tibiis posticis valde dilatatis, 

 foliaceis, runs, fascia transversa fulva, nigro-maculata. 

 Long. lin. 9. 



Above deep red, opaque, thickly and finely punctured. Head 

 and thorax somewhat fulvous, head palest. Thorax with the 

 lateral angles prominent and acute. Scutellum dusky. Mem- 

 brane of the elytra blackish brown, coppery. Body beneath 

 bright orange. Abdomen impunctate. Antepectus and the pos- 

 terior margins of the two other segments thickly and finely 

 punctured. Anterior and intermediate legs dusky testaceous; 

 posterior thighs slender, brownish, with a row of minute spines 

 along the under surface; posterior tibiae very much dilated, 

 foliaceous, the inner dilatation extending rather beyond the middle 

 of the tibia, the outer about three-fourths of its length; the 

 foliaceous portion red, with a broad orange transverse band across 

 the disc before the middle, which is spotted with black on the 

 outer dilatation ; inner dilatation with a large black spot at the 

 apex; apical slender portion of the tibia fulvous. Rostrum 

 orange. Antennae with the basal and apical joints brownish, the 

 intermediate ones black. 



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



