536 ^Ir. W, L. Distant on Lygasidaj. 



toni. ii. p. 143, and where again Walker's species is placed 

 (p. 147) as a synonym of L. turcicus, Fabr. 



Lygceus higudatus. 



Cimex biguttatus, Fabr. Svst. Ent. p. 720 (1775). 

 Lygatis divisiis, Walk. Cat. Het. v. p. 62. n. 138 (1872). 



The Fabrician type is in the Banksian collection contained 

 in the British Museum. 



Lygceus mactans. 



Lyganis mactaris, Stal, Berlin, ent. Zeit. x. p. 162 (186(i). 

 Li/gceus nificeps, Walk. Cat. Het. v. p. 63. n. 139 (1«72). 



Walker writes of his L. rujiceps : — " The entirely red head 

 of this species and the red spot on each side of the prothorax 

 distinguish it from L. moctans.^^ All the six specimens, 

 liowever, which he had before him when he wrote his descrip- 

 tion exhibit the apex of the central lobe to the head as black 

 or fuscous, and there is also the black spot at inner margins 

 of eyes, as described by Stal. The red spot of Walker " on 

 each side of the hind border " of pronotum would have been 

 better described as occupying the posterior lateral margins, 

 and thus equal the " lateribus thoracis pone medium " of 

 Stal. 



Lygoius Bettonij sp. n. 



Pale ochraceous ; antennce, legs, apex of head, eyes and 

 oblique basal area on each side of head behind eyes, pronotum 

 with the anterior area and two large discal spots not reaching 

 posterior margin, connected anteriorly and with the anterior 

 area, and also connected with the lateral margins by a short 

 transverse fascia, scutellum (excluding apex), about apical 

 half of clavus and outer claval margin, lateral margins of 

 corium (not reaching apex) emitting a short central transverse 

 fascia extending about half across the corium, black. Ster- 

 num black, its segmental margins and the lateral margins of 

 meso- and metasternum cretaceous white, with three large 

 segmental spots on each side and the posterior lateral angles 

 ot prosternum pale ocliraceous. Abdomen beneath reddish 

 ochraceous, with its apex black. 



Pronotum coarsely punctate, principally on the black 

 markings, and with an oblique transverse incision on each 

 side of anterior area. 



Long. 9^ millim. 



Hah. British East Africa [C. S. Betton, Brit. Mus.). 



