HEMIPTERA. 455 



reaching the middle of the fifth segment ; the margins spotted 

 with yellow. Breast deep red, with the posterior portion of each 

 segment pitchy black, thickly and finely punctured, and with 

 three large yellow spots on each side. Head beneath black, with a 

 longitudinal reddish band on each side. Anterior and intermediate 

 legs fulvous ; posterior thighs much thickened, strongly spinous 

 beneath, with several smaller spines on the inner and upper sur- 

 faces ; black, with the base reddish ; posterior tibiae slightly di- 

 lated on each side ; the tibia itself with the basal portion reddish, 

 the apical pale fulvous ; the dilated portion pitchy brown ; the 

 outer dilatation with its margin entire ; the inner margin finely 

 denticulated; inner dilatation with a white spot; tarsi fulvous. 

 Rostrum reaching nearly to the apex of the fourth ventral seg- 

 ment, testaceous, with the tip black. Antennae with the three 

 basal joints deep red, thickly clothed with rather stiff hairs ; basal 

 joint stoutest ; second joint much thicker than the third, as long 

 as the third and fourth joints together; fourth joint about equal 

 to the third both in length and thickness, pale brown, with the 

 apex yellow. 



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



13. ANISOSCELIS fasciata. 



Anisoscelis fasciata, Hope, Cat. 17 (1842). 



a. Brazil. 



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



Genus 3. LEPTOSCELIS. 



Cimex, p., Linn. Syst. Nat. i. (1767); DeG. Mem. iii. (1773). 



Lygaeus, p., Fab. Ent. Syst. iv. (1794) fy Syst. Eh. (1803). 



Alydus, p., Fab. Syst. Eh. (1803). 



oreus, p., LeP. < Serv. Enc. x. (1825). 



Leptoscelis, Lap. Hem. 31 (1832); Spin. Hem. 217 (1837) # 



Tav. Sin. Hem. 40 (1850) ; Am. $ Serv. Hem. 219 (1843) ; H. 



Sch. Warn. ix. 244 (1851). 

 Anisoscelis, p., Burm. Handb. ii. (1835). 



1. LEPTOSCELIS fastuosa. 



Anisoscelis fastuosus, H. Sch. Wanz. vii. 8. t. 219. fig. 684 (1844). 

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



2. LEPTOSCELIS lunata. 



Lyg33uslunatus,M>..E.S.iv. 142.25(1794) fy .#.212.36(1803). 

 Coreus lunatus, Lat. Humb. fy Bonpl. Obs. Zool. i. 187. 31- 

 pi. 17. fig. 9 (1811). 



