352 Mr. W. L. Distant on Reduviidfe. 



XhYl.—Rh/nchotal Azotes.— XVll. Heteroptera : Famili/ 

 Reduviidte. By W. L. Distant. 



The following contribution relates entirely to the family 

 Reduviidfe, and contains descriptions of genera and species 

 belonging to the collection in the British Museum. Some of 

 these possess a peculiar interest in having been collected by 

 old and well-known naturalists, such as P. PI. Gosse in 

 Jamaica, H. W. Bates on the Amazons, Hamlet Clark in 

 Brazil, and A. E.. Wallace in the Malayan Archipelago. 



Fani. Reduviidae. 



Sal ta va tix^. 

 Lisarda cethiopica, sp. n. 



Brownish ochraceous ; head, pronotum, scutellum, stenuim, 

 broad sublateral areas and a very narrow subobsolete central 

 line to abdomen, spots to connexivum above and beneath, 

 biannulations and apices of femora, biannulations to tibise 

 (near base and apex), piceous ; rostrum, coxa:^, legs, and abdo- 

 men beneath luteous ; hemelytra (especially membrane) with 

 paler mottled markings; anterior spinous production of head 

 prominent J first joint of antenna shorter than head, about 

 lialf the length of second ; anterior lobe of pronotum centrally 

 sulcatc, and more narrowly discally sulcate on each lateral 

 area, lateral angles subangularly prominent; body sparingly 

 pilose ; antenna and It gs longly pilose. 



Long. 13 millim. 



IJah. Brit. East Africa: Tarn Desert {0. S. Bdton, Brit. 

 Mus.). 



Differs from L. ccenosa, Stal, by the non-rounded and sub- 

 angularly prominent lateral pronotal angles. 



A CAXTHASPiy^. 



Centrogo7ius ducalis, sp. n. 



Ochraceous ; pronotum, scutellum, lateral areas of sternum, 

 segmental fascia to abdomen, brownish ochraceous ; head 

 between and behind eyes (above and laterally), base of clavus 

 and corium, apical angle of corium, membrane, and large 

 segmental spots to connexivum piceous ; ocelli pearly white ; 

 second joint of antenna almost as long as head and pronotum 

 together, anterior pronotal lobe with six long spines (two 



