HEMIPTERA HETEROPTEBA. 509 



2. Procilia scintillans. 

 scintillans, Stal, Hem. Afr. i. 30. 

 Old Calabar. 



3. PilOCILIA PRETORIA. 



praeloria, Stal, Hem. Afr. i. 37. 



Gabon. 



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LlBYSSA PURPURASCENS. 



Subchalybeo-rufescens, longi-ovala, dense 'punctata ; rostrum teslaceum ; 

 antenna: nigrce, basi testacea; ; thorax valde convexus, villis duabus 

 marginalibus ochraceo-rujis, fascia media purpurea indetcrminata ; 

 scuteilum fasciis qualuor purpureis indistinclis, la basali,2a 3uquc 

 connexis ; pectus purpurcum, pl.aga ccntrali flava, vitlis duabus 

 lateralibus ochraceo-rufis ; venter ochraceo-rufis, vitds duabus den- 

 talis purpureis, fasciis abbreviates flavis ; pedes purpurei, femoribus 

 ochraceo-rufis. 



Dull red, with a slight chaljbeous tinge, elongate-oval, thickly and 

 minutely punctured. Head rather short; middle lobe keeled. Eyes livid. 

 Rostrum testaceous. Antennae black; first joint testaceous ; second about 

 half the length of the third; fourth longer than the third, a little longer 

 than the fifth. Thorax somewhat gibbous, with a transverse callus on each 

 side in front, and with two broad orange-red marginal stripes which do not 

 extend hindward beyond the much-rounded hind angles ; an indistinct 

 purple band across the middle. Scuteilum with four indistinct purple 

 bands, of which the first is basal; second and third bands connected. 

 Pectus purple; middle part yellow; an ochraceous-red stripe on each side. 

 Abdomen beneath ochraceous-red, and with an abbreviated yellow band on 

 the fore border of each segment. Legs purple; coxae and femora ochraceous- 

 red. Fore wings blackish cinereous, black along the costa. Length of the 

 body G\ — 7 lines. 



a — c. East Africa. Presented by Earl Russell. 



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Callidea distix(u;enda. 



distinguenda, Rciche el Fairm. Voy. Abyss. Ent. 433. Stal, Hem, Afr. 

 i. 45. 



Abyssinia. 



Callioea Baijo. 



Var. Tetrarthria tetraspila, page 19. 



Callidea fasciata. 



Tetrarthria fasciata, page 20. 



Callidea bobria. 



Tetrarthria sobria, page 21. 



