454 HEMIPTERA. 



8. ANISOSCELIS orientalis. 



Lygaeus membranaceus, Wolff, Ic. dm. 22. t. 3. fig. 22 (1800). 

 Coreus (Anisoscelis) membranaceus, Burm. Nova Acta Ac. Leop. 



xvi. Supp. 295. 21 (1834). 



Anisoscelis membranacea, p., Burm. Handb. ii. 332. 3 (1835). 

 Anisoscelis membranaceus, Hope, Cat. 16 (1842). 



a. Philippine Islands. From Mr. Cuming's Collection. 



b. Java. From the East India Company's Collection. 



9. ANISOSCELIS membranacea. 



Lyga3us membranaceus, Fab. E. S. iv. 139. 16 (1794) & S. R. 



209. 23 (1803). 

 Anisoscelis membranacea, p., Burm. Handb. ii. 332. 3 (1835). 



a. S. Africa. Presented by Dr. Andrew Smith. 



b. W. Africa. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



10. ANISOSCELIS australis. 



australis, Fab. E. S. iv. 140. 21 (1794) $ S. R. 211. 31 

 (1803). 



a. Navigators' Islands. Presented by the Duke of North- 

 umberland. 



11. ANISOSCELIS cincta. 



Anisoscelis cincta, H. Sch. Wanz. iii. 91. t. 103. f. 315 (1836). 

 a. Columbia. From M. Goudot's Collection. 



12. ANISOSCELIS crassicornis, n. s. 



A. picea, punctata, thorace flavescens ; marginibus, lineaque me- 

 dia rubris ; antennis rubris, articulo ultimo fusco, apice flavo, 

 secundo valde elongato, sequentibus crassiori. J . 

 Long. lin. 8. 



Head black, clothed with minute yellowish hairs, with three 

 irregular reddish longitudinal lines. Eyes and ocelli red. Thorax 

 yellow, thickly and rather finely punctured with brown, with 

 the anterior and lateral margins and a central longitudinal line 

 red, the posterior margin pitchy brown, the lateral margins 

 nearly straight, the lateral angles slightly prominent, acute. 

 Scutellum deep red, punctured and transversely wrinkled, with 

 the apex whitish. Coriaceous portion of the elytra pitchy, 

 thickly and finely punctured, with the nervures and the apical 

 portion deep red, and with a transverse abbreviated white band 

 at the base of the membrane ; membrane brassy brown. Abdo- 

 men beneath deep reddish brown, with the disc pitchy, with a 

 brassy tinge; the centre with a reddish longitudinal furrow 



