fiEMIPTERA HETEROPTERA. 167 



Eyes very prominent. Rostrum yellow ; second joint black on each side; 

 fourth black. Antennae very slender, as long as the body; first joint as 

 long as the head, yellow at the base; second longer than the firsi ; third 

 more than twice as long as the second; fourth shorter than the third. Fore 

 lobe of the prolhorax bordered with yellow on each side, a little shorter 

 than the hind lobe, which is wholly bordered with yellow; hind angles 

 black, slightly prominent. Scutellura wiih a long erect yellow spine, 

 which i« blackish towards the tip. Pectus with yellow spots. Abdomen 

 yellow and with silvery reflections beneath, where there are transverse 

 aeneous streaks on each side and a large aeneous paich at two-thirds of the 

 length. Legs piceous, slender, clothed with fine hairs; four anterior 

 femora yellow, piceous at the base and towards the tips on the outer side; 

 hind femora yellow at the base; four anterior tibiae yellow and furrowed 

 beneath at ihe tips; hind tibite with a yellow band near the base. Corium 

 with a little yellow costal streak at the base and with an oblique yellow 

 streak near the exterior border. Membrane cinereous, hyaline, witu black 

 veins. Length of the body 5^ lines. 



a. Singapore. Presented by W. W. Saunders, Esq. 



Genus 4. ACANTHASPIS. 

 Acanthaspis, Serv. Hist. Hem. 336. Stal, Hem. Afr. iii. 126. 



Mexico and South America. 



Div. 1. 



Leogorrus, Stal, Sletl. Ent. Zeit. xx. 404. 



1. Acanthaspis ochropus. 



ochropus, Stal, O/v. K. V. Ak. Fork. xii. 188— Reduvius ochropus, Stal, 

 Rio Jan. Hem. 71. 



Minas Geraes. 



2. Acanthaspis formicaria. 



Reduvius formicarius, Fabr. Syst. Rhyn. 280. Stal, Rio Jan. Hem. 71 — 

 Platymeiis formicaria, Burm. Handb. Ent. ii. 233. H.-S h. Warn. 

 Ins. viii. 33, pi. 260, f. 808— Leogorrus formicarius, Stal, Hem. Fabr. 

 i. 125. 



South America. 



3. Acanthaspis lituka. 



Reduvius litura, Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. 3 10 ; Ent. Syst. iv. 199; Syst. Rhyn. 

 272 — Platymeris myrmecodes, H.-Sch. fVanz. Ins. xiii. 32, pi. 260, 

 f. 8U7 — Leogorrus litura, Stal, Hem. Fabr. i. 126. 



Mexico. Cayenne. Brazil. 



