658 HEMIPTERA. 



The specimens from South Africa are paler in colour, being 

 pitchy brown, with the head, the anterior portion of the thorax, 

 and the under side of the body blackish ; the membrane brownish, 

 somewhat transparent, with pale nervures. 



a. Sierra Leone. Presented by the Rev. D. F. Morgan. 



b. S. Africa. Presented by the Earl of Derby. 



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



t First and second nervures of the membrane united by a trans- 

 verse nervure behind the middle. 



2. LETH^EUS indicus, n. s. 



L. niger, subnitidus, punctatus ; femoribus piceis ; antennis, 

 tibiis tarsisque fulvescentibus ; membrana fuscescenti. <? . 

 Long. lin. 4. 



Black, somewhat shining. Head finely punctured. Thorax 

 more strongly punctured, with a smooth space near the anterior 

 margin. Scutellum rather finely punctured. Coriaceous portion 

 of the elytra pitchy, thickly and rather finely punctured, with a 

 yellow spot on the inner portion of the disc near the apex of the 

 clavus ; membrane brownish, with the nervures concolorous. 

 Wings iridescent. Abdomen beneath black, shining, very mi- 

 nutely punctured. Breast rather coarsely punctured. Thighs 

 pitchy; tibia? dull fulvous; tarsi yellowish. Rostrum orange, 

 with the basal joint brown, and the tip of the last joint black. 

 Antennae dull fulvous. 



a. N. Bengal. From Lieut. Campbell's Collection. 



Genus 7- APHANUS. 



Lygams, p., Fall. Mon. dm. (1807) fy Hem. Suec. (1829); Zett. 



F. Ins. Lapp. (1832) fy Ins. Lapp. (1840). 

 Pachymerus, p., Schill. Beitr. i. (1829); Kol. Mel Ent. ii. 



(1845). 



Aphanus, p., Lap. Hem. (1832); H. Sch. Nom. Ent. (1835). 

 Beosus, p., Sahib. Geoc. Fenn. (1848). 



1. APHANUS rusticus. 



Lyga3us rusticus, Fall. Mon. dm. 70. 17 (1807) fy Hem. Suec. 



64. 25 (1829); Zett. F. Ins. Lapp. i. 4/0. 3 (1832) % Ins. 



Lapp. 262. 4 (1840). 

 Pachvmerus rusticus, Schill. Beitr. i. 81. 26. t. 7- fig. 5 (1829); 



Hahn f Wanz. i. 223. t. 36. fig. 116 (1831); Kol. Mel. Ent. ii. 



83. 53 (1845). 



