222 Mr. G. T. Betliune-Baker on new 



coxae; antcnnre with the first joint considerably thickened 

 and not reaching apex of head, a little longer than breadth 

 between eyes, which are only subi)roniinent ; third antennal 

 joint considerably shorter than second ; proiiotum depressed, 

 with an obsolete narrow anterior colhir, transversely excavate 

 on disk, lateral margins moderately sinuate and narrowed 

 anteriorly, posterior margin moierately concavely sinuate ; 

 hcmclytra with their margins parallel; membrane with a 

 small basal ceil and three veins; anterior and posterior 

 femora very strongly incrassated, and spinulose on their 

 under surface; tarsi three-jointed. 



Owing to the specimen described being in a carded con- 

 dition, the structure of the sternum cannot be ascertained. 



Type, S. ])arallelus, Motsch. {Anthocoris). 



Genus Triphleps. 



Triphleps tantihis. 



Anthocwis tantihis, Motsch. Bull. Soc. Mosc. xxxvi. (3) p. 89 (I860). 

 Triphleps indicus, Reut. Monogi-. Autbocor. pp. 91, 101 (1884). 



Summarized Disposition of Walker s Genera and Species 

 belonging to the Family Aiitliocoridae. 



Species considered valid, but requiriny (jeneric revision, 



AnlAocoris pro.rimm,'SVa.lk. Cat. Het. v. p. 151 (1872), belongs to gen. 



O.vi/carenus, Fieb. (Lygseidoe). 

 jmhescens, Walk. loc. cit., belong.s to gen. O.vycarenus, Fieb. (Ly- 



gajidffi). 

 arctatus, Walk. loc. cit. p. 153, belongs to gen. O.vycarenus, Fieb. 



(Lygseidae). 

 Xylocoris fvJvescens ani fuinipennis, W.Jk. loc. cit. p. 160, belongs to gen. 



Amphiareus, nov. 



Species treated as synonymic. 



Antliocoris snhcriiciatus, Walk. Cat. Ilet. v. p. 151 [1872),= O.vycarenus 



viactdattts, Stil (Lygajidse). 

 Xylocori-1 fnmipennk, Walk, loc, cit. p. \(iQ, = Amphiareus fulvescens, 



Walk. loc. cit. 



XXX IV. — On new Species of Rliopalocerafrom Sierra Leone. 

 By George T. Betuune-Baker, F.L.S., F.Z.S. 



Last year Mr. Cator added considerably to his collection of 

 Bhopalocera in the near hinterland of Sierra Leone, both in 

 species and in numbers, and he brought home or sent over to 



