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well known, and its habits seem to be very well known to the 
natives, whom it attacks in clouds when going np the rivers 
in their boats; this specimen has formidable jaws, is of a 
pale or light brown colour, with three longitudinal bands of 
darker brown, along the upper part of the thorax ; abdomen 
yellowish brown, with narrow transverse bands of black ; 
wings pale brown. 
" Of the Hemiptera and the Family Reduviidce there is a 
large species of Platymerus, much larger than the P. higut- 
tatus (Linn, sp.) 
" It has two red spots on the base of the hemelytree, which 
have a few small spines. The legs have also larger pale 
rings on them." 
" A specimen of the Platymerus higuttatus, with its 
powerful curved proboscis, inflicted a severe wound on the 
arm of the Kev. Mr Morgan at Sierra Leone, whose arm 
swelled up in an hour or two, in consequence, to nearly 
twice its size. 
*' Lepidoptera Fam. Bombycid^. — The case of an Oiketi- 
cus is in the collection, that curious group of the family, 
the female of which is apterous, and constantly lives in a 
case or house. Only some five species are described of the 
singular genus, and they occur principally in the West 
Indies. He hoped, in some subsequent collection, the 
winged male of it would be found." 
Dr Smith said he had received this Acridoxena, along with 
the other insects, from Mr Archibald Hew^an, the surgeon to 
the U. P. Mission at Old Calabar. This specimen was the 
only one he had seen. The antennse, which were unfor- 
tunately now broken off, were very long and slender, longer, 
he believed, than the whole body of the insect ; and as 
Mr White had refrained from naming the species he had so 
well described, he would, in compliment to Mr He wan, who 
had been so zealous in collecting and sending home various 
interesting objects of natural history, designate this very 
curious insect the 
Acridoxena Heioaniana, n. s. 
