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46. ACHAEANA PH^OPTEEALIS (Guen.). 



Botys phaeopteralis, Guen. Spec. Gen. Lep.,Delt. et Pyr. p. 349 (1854). 

 A common and widely-distributed species in Tropical America. 



47. Pachtzancla detettalis {Gum.). 



Botys detritalis, Guen. Spec.Gen. Lep., Delt. Sf Pyr. p. 347 (1854). 

 Widely distributed in South America. 



48. Opsibotys flayidissimalis (Grote). 



Botis flavidissimalis, Grote, Canad. Ent. ix. p. 105(1877). 

 Described by Grote from Texas ; but there are also specimens 

 from South America in the British Museum. 



49. Mella zinckenella (Treitschke). 



Phycis zinckenella, Treitschke, Schmett. Eur. ix. (l)p. 201 (1832). 



Many specimens. A cosmopolitan species. There are spe- 

 cimens in the British Museum from S. Europe, S. Africa, and 

 Australia. It is a somewhat variable insect, but is easily 

 recognized by the broad pale costa and the huge palpi. 



50. Pentatoma testacea, Ball. 



Pentatoma testacea, DalL Cat. Hem. p. 250, n. 43 (1851). 

 Several specimens were met with in various spots in the Main 

 and Rat Islands. 



51. LvG^rs RUEOCULis, n. sp. 

 Long. corp. 9-11 millim 



Bright red, including the eyes and ocelli ; head above, between 

 and in front of ocelli, blackish ; antennae and legs blackish and 

 setose ; coxae reddish at base, corium more or less varied with 

 blackish, outer edge narrowly black, membrane brown, blackish 

 in $ . Head and thorax rugose, the former truncate and 

 bicarinate in front. Eostrum black, extending to the extremity of 

 the posterior coxae. Corium fully developed in d ; in $ about 

 half as long as the abdomen, and rather pointed. 



An extremely common species, allied to L. anticus, Walk., in 

 which, however, the head and thorax are unicolorous red, and the 

 tegmina are reddish brown. 



This highly-coloured Bug occurred in large numbers uj^on the 

 ground in the Sapate under bushes of Jacquinia ; but was local, 

 only found in a few spots. 



