O CATALOGUE OF 



small tubercle on each side of the fore border. Hind lobe with the hind 

 angles rounded, not prominent. Scutellum blackish, equilaterally trian- 

 gular. Fore femora stout, spinulose beneath. Fore wings black, tawny 

 towards the base. Length of the body 2:] lines. 



a. Tejuca. Presented by the Rev. II. Clark. 



Africa. 



4. Opinus acuticeps. 



Niger, longissime ovalis; caput prolhoracis labo antico triplo longius; 

 prothorax rufus, lobis cequilongis ; pedes rufi, tibiis qualuor posteriori' 

 bus femoribusquc nigris, tibiis anticis nigro unifascialis. 



Black, dull, very elongate-oval. Head lanceolate, thrice as long as 

 the fore lobe of the protborax ; ante-ocular part twice as long as the post- 

 ocular. First joint of the antenna? stout, shorter than the head, much 

 loDgei than the second. Protborax red, with rounded and not prominent 

 angles. Fore lobe as long as the hind lobe, convex on each side of the 

 longitudinal furrow. Legs red; femora and four posterior tibia; black 

 above; fore tibia) with a black band. Length of the body 4£ lines. 



a. Sierra Leone. From Mr. Foxcroft's collection. 



South Asia and Eastern Isles. 

 Div. 1. 

 5. Opinus rubropictus. 

 rubropictus, Serv. Hist. Hem. 339. 

 Java. 



Div. 2. 

 Sminthus, Stal, Ofv. K. Vet. Ak. Forh. xvii. 186. 



6. Opinus proximus. 



proximus, Serv. Hist. Hem. 316— Sminthus proximus, Stal. 



Java. 



7. Opinus pictus. 



pictus, Dc Lap. llvm. 78, 82. Serv. Hist. Hem. 340— Tapinus pictus, 

 Burtn. llandb. Ent. ii. 236. H.-Sch. Warn. Ins. viii. 56, pi. 267, f. 

 825— Hammatocerus pictus, Blanch. Hist. flat. Ins. iii. 105— 

 Sminthus pictus, Stal. 



Java. 



Var. ? proximus, Serv. Hist. Hem. 310. 



8. Opinus inconspicuus. 



Tapirus inconspicuus, H.-Sch. Warn. Ins. viii. 57, pi. 26, f. 826 — 



Siniutbus inconspicuus, Stal. 



Java. 



