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AOAKTHOOEPHALA. FEMOKATA. 



Cimex femoratus Fabr. S3^st. Eat. p. 708 (1775). 

 Metapodms bispinus Westw. in Hope Cat. ii. p. 15 (1842). 



ACANTHOOEPHALA .^QUALIS. (Plate XXIX. fig. 1.) 



Metapodius eqiialis Westw. in Hope Cat. ii. p. 14 (1842). 

 Allied to A. latipes Dru., from which it differs by the more 

 attenuated and less notched posterior tibise. 



ACASTTHOCEPHALA CONSOBRINA. (Plate XXIX. fig. 7.) 



Metapodius consohrinus Westw. in Hope Cat. ii. p. 15 (1842). 

 Metapodius nigricans Westw. loc. cit. 



Westwood's types are unlocalized; the British Museum also 

 possesses two specimens of the species, but both without habitats. 



ACANTHOCEPHALA APICALIS. 



Metapodius apicalis Westw. in Hope Cat. ii. p. 15 (1842). 

 Form and size of A. consohrina, pronotal angles less produced, 

 colour different, &c. 



ACANTHOCEPHALA ANGTJSTIPES. 



Metapodius angust'ipjes Westw. in Hope Cat. ii. p. 15 (1842). 



Metapodius constrictus Walk, Cat, Het. iv. p. 47. n. 4 (1871). 



Westwood's type is unlocalized ; Walker's typical specimen is 

 from Barbadoes ; another specimen ia the British Museum is 

 from Cayenne. The Colombian specimen identified by Dallas 

 (List Hem. ii. p. 430. n. 6, 1852) as A. angustlpes is not West- 

 wood's species. 



Empedooles 'PEXUicoRNis. (Plate XXX. tig. 1,) 



Metapodius tenuicornis Westw. in Hope Cat. ii. p. 16 (1842). 

 Empedocles tenuicornis Stal, En. Hem. i. p. 152 (1870). 

 Both Westwood's type and Stal's representative are unlocalized, 

 so that the habitat of this species is still to be discovered. 



Stbnoscelidea albovabia. (Plate XXX. tig. 7.) 

 Stenoscelidea aJbovaria Westw. in Hope Cat. ii. p. 18 (1842), 



Subfam. Homoeoceeinj^. 



HOMCEOCERUS BIGUTTATA. 



Homoeocerus 2-guttatus Westw. in Hope Cat. ii. p. 22 (1842). 

 Homceocerus sikJdmemis Dist. Ent. Month. Mag. xxv. p. 231 

 (1889). 



HOMCEOCBRUS SEBEIFER. 



Ooreus serrifer Westw. in Hope Cat. ii. p. 24 (1842). 

 Homceocerus parvulus Walk. Cat. Het. iv. p. 101. u. 32 (1871). 

 Homoeocerus unipunctatus Dall. (nee Thunb.) List Hem. ii. 

 p. 447. n. 11 (1852). 



