Mr. W. L. Distant on Lygeide. 535 
Oncopeltus purpurascens, sp. Nn. 
Ochraceous ; head, antenne, anterior area of pronotum 
(sometimes connected by a central line with a basal spot), 
base of scutellum, a broad medial fascia across corium, legs, 
margins of sternal incisures, and apical area of abdomen 
beneath purplish brown ; membrane dark fuscous, the inner 
angle and a transverse discal spot creamy white. 
Pronotum and scutellum with a distinct central longitudinal 
ridge; apex of head, lateral margins of pronotum, basal 
lateral margins of corium, and the tibize rather longly pilose. 
Long. 74-8 millim. 
Hab. Baudin Island, N.W. Australia (J. J. Walker, Brit. 
Mus.). 
Genus Ly@aus. 
Lygeus xanthostaurus. 
Lygeus vanthostaurus, Werr.-Schatt. Wanz. Ins. viii. p. 104, fig. 874 
(1848). 
Lygeus maurus (nec Stal), Walk. Cat. Het. v. p. 48. n. 68 (1872). 
Lygeus furcatus. 
Cimex furcatus, Fabr. Mant. 11. p. 8301 (1787), 
Lygeus angulifer, Walk. Cat. Het. v. p. 55, n, 103 (1872). 
Lyge us concinnus. 
Lygeus concinnus, Dall. List Hem. ii. p. 542 (1852). 
Var. Lygeus campestris, Dist. Nat. in Transvaal, Append. p. 252, pl. iii, 
fie. 10 (1892). 
Lygeus analis. 
Lygeus analis, Dall. List Hem. ii. p. 540. n. 25 (1852), 
Lygeus ruficeps, Stal, Stett. ent. Zeit. xxiii. p. 309. 198 (1862). 
In Biol, Centr.-Amer., Rhynch. vol. i. p. 179 (1332) 5 5 
stated that the type of Dallas was not in its place in the 
National Collection and that it probably represented the 
species described by Stal. I have now discovered the type of 
L. analis, and found that my supposition was correct. 
Lygeus inequalis. 
Lygeus nequalis, Walk, Cat. Het. v. p. 49. n. 70 (1872); St8l. En, — 
/ KX - V. Op. . in. < Otte n, 
Hem. iv. p. 107. n. 22 (1874). eae tga 
Stal evidently, as was sometimes his practice with Walker’s 
species, adopted the name, but gave his own description. 
This, however, does not justify the species standing in Stal’s 
name, as it does in Lethierry and Severin’s Cat. Gén. Hém, 
