HEMIPTERA. 569 



Lygaeus quadratus, Panz. F. G. 92. 11. 



Pachymerus luscus, S chill. Beitr. i. 67. 6. t. 6. fig. 4 (1829); 



Hahn, Wanz. i. 48. t. 8. fig. 30 (1831) ; Burm. Handb. ii. 295. 



6 (1835) ; H. Sch. Norn. Ent. i. 45 & 79 (1835). 

 Beosus quadratus, Am. Sf Serv. Hem. 254. 1 (1843). 

 Beosus, Amyot, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 2 me ser. iv. 90. 135. 

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



26. RHYPAROCHROMUS notatus, n. s. 



R. elongatus, niger ; thorace postice, elytrorumque basi testaceis, 

 fusco-punctatis ; elytrorum corio apice albo, fusco-punctato ; 

 femoribus basi, tibiisque 4 anticis, apice excepto, flavis. <J ? . 

 Long. lin. 3^-4. 



Elongate. Head black, with a few minute punctures on the 

 vertex ; eyes prominent, projecting slightly beyond the anterior 

 margins of the thorax. Thorax rather longer than broad, slightly 

 narrowed in front ; lateral margins reflexed, widest and yellow 

 about the middle ; disc with a transverse impression a little 

 behind the middle; the anterior portion rather convex, black, 

 very sparingly and minutely punctured, the posterior testaceous, 

 thickly and rather strongly punctured with brown, with the pos- 

 terior angles black; the posterior margin slightly incurved. 

 Scutellum black, sparingly punctured, with the apex and two 

 points on the disc orange. Coriaceous portion of the elytra 

 brownish testaceous, thickly punctured with brown, with a broad 

 transverse black band, not reaching the inner margin, behind the 

 middle ; the apex white, with a few fine brown punctures ; mem- 

 brane deep black, opaque. Body beneath black; abdomen 

 clothed with minute pale hairs, with yellow spots on the lateral 

 margins of the last three segments. Breast thickly and finely 

 punctured. Thighs black, orange-yellow at the -base ; anterior 

 and intermediate tibiae yellow, with the apex blackish ; posterior 

 tibiae blackish ; tarsi all blackish. Rostrum pitchy black, with 

 the second joint brownish fulvous. Antennas black, with the 

 apex of the second joint reddish, and the base of the fourth 

 white. 



a. Australia. Presented by the Entomological Club. 



b. New South Wales. Presented by the Earl of Derby. 



c. Van Diem en's Land. From Mr. Hooker's Collection. 



d. Van Diemen's Land. From Lieut. Smith's Collection. 



27. RHYPAROCHROMUS armipes. 



Lygasus armipes, Fab. E. S. iv. 164. 102 (1794) 8c S. R. 231 

 132? (1803). 

 0. America. Presented by Capt. Friend. 



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