— 459 — 



are of the same size and almost identical in colour, bnt the médian 

 furrow of the posterior pronotal lobe is less pronounced in the 

 tvpical species, and the number and arrangement of the small 

 tubercles of the prothorax, etc., give good spécifie characters. — 

 Under the name Peprius LiLJaniis Schouteden described in this 

 Revue, Vol. I, p. 264, a new Reduviid which is very much larger 

 than the species oi Peprius, and ditferentlv coloured. No structural 

 characters are given, and I do not know to what genus it belongs. 



4. Rliinocoris ohtusus Pal. (Jorahis Stâl). — Reuter (Oefv. 

 Finsk. Vet. Soc. Foerh. XXV, p. 35) bv some mistake placed 

 Rh. loratns in the subgenus Dipliymus ; it belongs to Stâl's sub- 

 genus ffypertolmîis, and is not specifically distinct from obtiisîis, 

 differing only in having the black apical fascia of the posterior 

 pronotal lobe more or less extended over the middle of the anterior 

 lobe, the subcostal area of the corium blackened, and the vellow 

 colour of the base of the femora less extended. The structural 

 characters are perfectlv identical and transitions in the colour not 

 rare. Loratiis is the form described bv Herrich-Schaeffer as 

 moestîis. 



5. Rliinocoris tibialis StÂl {alhofasciatus Sign.). — Albofas- 

 ciatus is onlv a colour-varietv of StÂl's species. Transitions 

 betvveen thèse forms, which both occur throughout the Ethiopian 

 région, are frequently met with. Hediocoris Reut., which was 

 founded on a very closely allied species, cannot be separated from 

 Rliinocoris (subg. Harpiscus). 



6. Rliinocoris vulneratus Germ. {yenans Stâl, Stàli Schout.). 

 — This species and an allied one were regarded by Stâl as 

 related to Sphedanolestes , and he placed them in a distinct 

 genus, Sphydrinus, on account of the somewhat shorter basai 

 joint to the antennœ and the slightlv stouter legs. In Deutsche 

 Ent. Z. 1908, p. 502, I united Sphydrinus with Sphedanolestes , but 

 I now find that there is a low elevated fold separating the impres- 

 sion of the anterior lobe from the transverse impression. It was 

 correctlv placed bv Schouteden in Rhinocoris with which it also 



