HEMIPTERA. 453 



with minute pale hairs, with the sides dull red, mottled with 

 large black points. Breast dull reddish fulvous, thickly clothed 

 with short pale hairs and mottled with black points ; antepectus 

 paler and thickly and finely punctured. Thighs blackish, with 

 the base reddish or fulvous ; anterior and intermediate tibiae and 

 tarsi fulvous ; posterior tibiae broadly foliaceous, pitchy brown, 

 with a whitish semitransparent spot about the middle of the 

 inner dilatation ; the apical slender portion and the tarsi fulvous. 

 Rostrum testaceous, with the tip black. Antennae with the basal 

 joint black ; rest wanting, 



a. Mexico. Presented by E. P. Coffin, Esq. 



4. ANISOSCELIS confusa. 



Lygaeus phyllopus, Fab. E. S. iv. 139. 17 (1794) 8f S. R. 210. 



25 (1803) ; Wolff, Ic. dm. 196. t. 19. fig. 190 (1811)*. 

 Anisoscelis phyllopus, Burm. Handb. ii. 332. 5 (1835); Am. fy 



Serv. Hem. 218. 1 (1843). 

 Anisoscelis phyllopa, Hope, Cat. 16? (1842). 



a. St. John's Bluff, East Florida. Presented by Edward 



Doubleday, Esq. 



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



c. - . Presented by General Thomas Hardwicke. 



5. ANISOSCELIS tibialis. 



Anisoscelis tibialis, H. Sch. Wanz. vii. 12 (1844). 

 a. - . From Mr. Children's Collection. 



6. ANISOSCELIS gonagra. 



Lygseus gonagra, Fab. E. S. iv. 140. 19 (1794) 8f S. R. 210. 27 



'(1803). 



Anisoscelis gonagra, Burm. Handb. ii. 332. 4 (1835) ; Hope, Cat. 

 16(1842). 



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



b. Mexico. From M. Hartweg's Collection. 



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



7. ANISOSCELIS antica. 



Anisoscelis antica, H. Sch. Wanz. iii. 92. t. 103. fig. 316 (1836). 



* The Cimex phyllopus, Linn., is quite distinct from this species, and 

 is nearly allied to Anisoscelis cincta, H. Sch'dff. It appears to be the 

 same as the Lygaeus auctus, Fab. 



