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tnmcate-ovate, with central and lateral longitudinal depressed 

 lines, longer than the pronotum ; antennae with twenty-four 

 joints, basal joint broad, depressed ; pronotum quadrate, with 

 obtusely carinated margins ; two longitudinal series of four 

 obtuse well-developed tubercles ; a central depression ; meso- 

 notum dorsally carinate, covered with tubercles ; a series of 

 lateral tubercles between the pairs of legs ; tegmina small ; 

 wings minute, coriaceous ; anterior abdominal segments roof- 

 like, laterally carinated ; anal styles lanceolate ; anterior legs 

 considerably the longest, the femora strongly excavated and 

 rugulose at the base, with two internal longitudinal marginal 

 series of denticles ; all the legs parallelopipedous, obtusely 

 carinated ; posterior femora denticulated below. Length 

 3 inches 10 lines. 



(Coll. by Gulliver and Slater.) 



This species is broader than any other Bacillus known to 

 me ; but it has all the characters of that genus. 



Hemiptera. 



Genus Reduvius. 



Reduvius lanigevj n. sp. 



Densely clothed Avith testaceous hair ; antenna slender, the 

 three basal joints amber-yellow, remaining joints blackish ; 

 head castaneous ; eyes blackish ; rostrum pale castaneous, dark 

 at the tip ; thorax testaceous, with two nearly parallel longi- 

 tudinal piceous bands, anterior lobe with a central longitudinal 

 fossa ; posterior lobe with a central depression ; scutellum 

 piceous, pale at the tip ; corium of hemelytra testaceous, with 

 two blackish spots and a cuneiform whitish spot between them j 

 membrane dull purjjlish black ; abdomen above amber-yellow, 

 with marginal brown spots, below piceous, with a yellowish 

 band on each side ; pectus shining black ; legs amber-yellow ; 

 the femora with central and terminal brown bands. Length 

 61 millims. 



(Coll. by Gulliver.) 



Genus Velia. 

 Velia inf emails J n. sp. 



Velvety black above, two grey spots on the front of the 

 thorax, slaty grey below ; sides of pectus whitish, anal seg- 

 ments of venter brown ; legs black above, brownish below ; 

 the base of the antennfe, the coxae, and the base of the femora 

 orange-yellow. Length 4 millims. 



(Coll. by Gulliver.) 



Allied to V. nigricans of Burmeister. 



