538 HEMIPTERA. 



basi, elytrorum fascia media, nigricantibus ; membrana nigro- 

 fusca, maculis 2 obsoletis albis. ? . 

 Long. lin. 6. 



Elongate. Head black, smooth, shining. Eyes black. Thorax 

 red, with the posterior part of the disc blackish ; the lateral 

 margins fringed with fine hairs. Scutellum red, with the base 

 black. Coriaceous portion of the elytra with a blackish trans- 

 verse band across the middle ; membrane blackish brown, with a 

 small white spot in the inner basal angle and another on the disc. 

 Abdomen beneath red, with a large black patch occupying the 

 disc of the third and fourth and the whole of the remaining seg- 

 ments. Antepectus red, with its posterior margin blackish; 

 medipectus and postpectus black. Legs pitchy black. Rostrum 

 and antennae black. 



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



15. LYG^EUS aulicus. 



Lygseus aulicus, Fab. E. S. iv. 151. 54 (1794) 8f S. R. 220. 71 



(1803). 

 Lygseus hamatus, H. Sch. Wanz. vii. 22. t. 224. f. 707 (1844) 



& ix. 199 (1850). 



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



16. LYGSEUS varicolor. 



Lygseus varicolor, Fab. E. S. iv. 149.49 (1794) # S. R. 219. 65 

 (1803). 



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



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



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



d. Venezuela. From Mr. Dyson's Collection. 



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



I/. LYGSEUS fasciatus. 



Lyga3us aulicus, H. Sch. Wanz. vi. 76. t. 206. f. 646 (1842) & 

 'ix. 196 (1850) [nee Fab.']. 



a. United States. From Mr. Dyson's Collection. 



b. St. John's Bluff, E. Florida. Presented by E. Doubleday, 



Esq. 



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

 ,> d. Mexico. From M. Hartweg's Collection. 



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

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

 g. British Guiana. Presented by Sir Robert Schomburgk, 



