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in front, and having a slight impressed longitudinal line. Scutellum 

 with a red tip. Abdomen with black transverse streaks on each side 

 beneath. Legs black ; femora beneath and coxae red. Fore border of 

 the fore wings red at the base. Length of the body 6 lines. Mount 

 Sinai. 



Gen. CoRANCS, Curtis. 



24. Arenaceus. Testaceous-cinereous, or sand-colour, minutely 

 punctured, with short bristles. OcelH behind the eyes seated on 

 tubercles. Eyes black, shining, prominent. Antennae testaceous, 

 darker towards the tips. Prothorax somewhat gibbous in front of the 

 transverse furrow; sides prominent, much rounded; hind border 

 slightly excavated in the middle. Abdomen reddish above, with black 

 dots along each side. Legs short ; femora and tibiae with irregular 

 blackish bands ; fore femora mostly black. Fore wings with two 

 reddish streaks in the corium ; membrane aeneous, pellucid towards 

 the tip. Length of the body 4|^ lines. Harkeko. Tajura. 



Fara. . — Gen. Acanthia, Fahr. 



25. Lectularia. The bed bug. Cimex lectularius, Linn. Sijst. 

 Nat. ii, 715. Wady Genneh. 



Fam. Nabid^. — Gen. Nabis, Lair. 



26. Siticiis. Pale testaceous, slender. Antennae very slender. 

 Prothorax with three brownish stripes, which extend to the scutellum. 

 Legs long, slender; fore femora slightly incrassated, a little longer 

 than the middle femora, much shorter than the hind femora. Wings 

 extending to the tip of the abdomen ; hind wings pellucid. Length 

 of the body 4 lines. Wady Ferran. 



27. Nobis? discifer. Pale testaceous, long, very slender, nearly 

 linear. Head and prothorax very minutely punctured. Head 

 elongate-triangular, testaceous at the lip. Prothorax black, with a 

 transverse furrow ; hind part testaceous. Pectus black. Fore femora 

 serrated beneath. Wings pellucid. Fore wings pale testaceous 

 towards the base. Length of the body 3 lines. The specimen 

 described is much injured. Dahleck Island. 



Fam. Naucokid^. — Gen. Naucoris, Geoffr. 



28. Minusculus. Testaceous. Head above with a lanceolate brown 

 streak, which includes a pale spot. Prothorax with a brownish disk, 

 which includes a pale curved streak on each side and an intermediate 



