480 HEMIPTERA. 



Head black, with the tip testaceous. Thorax brownish testa- 

 ceous, thickly and finely punctured, with the disc and some small 

 spots on the sides brown, the lateral and hinder margins black. 

 Scutellum blackish, very finely punctured. Coriaceous portion 

 of the elytra brown, thickly and finely punctured, and irrorated 

 with testaceous, the apex yellow ; membrane brownish. Abdo- 

 men beneath black, with the centre of the base dull red, and a 

 yellow transverse band, interrupted in the middle, on the poste- 

 rior margin of the third segment. Breast black, finely acicu- 

 lated, with a yellow spot at the base of each leg ; antepectus 

 minutely punctured -, metasternum red. Coxae and trochanters 

 red ; thighs brown ; posterior thighs with a yellow ring near the 

 apex, and the apex itself black ; tibiae testaceous, beset with short, 

 stiff, black hairs, and with the apex brown ; tarsi testaceous, 

 beset with stiff black hairs like the tibiae, with the apex brown. 

 Rostrum black. Antennae with the first three joints whitish tes- 

 taceous, with a few minute black hairs, their tips brownish ; apical 

 joint dusky, with the base dull yellow. 



a. N. India. From Capt. Boys' Collection. 



Genus 5. MICRELYTRA. 



Cimex, p., Rossi, F. Etr. ii. (1790). 



Hydrometra, p., Fab. Syst. Rh. (1803). 



Micrelytra, Lap. Hem. 27 (1832) ; Spin. Hem, 208 (1837) # Tav. 



Sin. Hem. 42 (1850) ; Am. $ Serv. Hem. 229 (1843); H. Sch. 



Wanz. ix. 244 (1851). 

 Actorus, Burm. Handb. ii. 327 (1835) ; H. Sch. Wanz. vi. 99 



(1842). 

 Micrelytrum, Ramb. F. And. ii. (1841 ?). 



1. MICRELYTRA fossularum. 



Cimex fossularum, Rossi, F. E. ii. 253. 1354 (1790). 

 Gerris fossularum, Fab. E. S. Supp. 543. 5 (1798). 

 Hydrometra fossularum, Fab. S. R. 259. 9 (1803). 

 Alydus apterus, L. Duf. Reck. 41. 2. pi. 2. fig. 1-8 (1827). 

 Actorus fossularum, Burm. Handb. ii. 327 (1835) ; H. Sch. Wanz. 



vi. lOl.t. 213. fig. 672 (1842). 



Micrelytrum fossularum, Ramb. F. And. ii. 130(1841 ?). 

 Micrelytra fossularum, Am. Sf Serv. Hem. 231. l.pl.5.fig.4(1843). 



a. Spain. Presented by B. Frend, Esq. 



b. Italy. 



Family 6. STENOCEPHALID^B. 



Head triangular, lateral lobes produced in front of the anten- 

 niferous tubercles and meeting before the intermediate lobe. 



