IIEMIPTERA HETEROPTERA. 
509 
2. Procilia scintillams. 
scintillans, Stal, Hem. Afr. i. 36. 
Old Calabar. 
3. Procilia pRiEXORiA. 
praDtoria, Stal, Hem. Afr. i. 37. 
Gabon. 
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Libyssa purpurascens. 
Suhehalyheo^rufescens, longi-ovala, dense 'punctata ; rostrum ieslaceum ; 
antennce nigroe, basi testacece ; thorax valde convexus, vitlis duahus 
marginalibus oc/iraceo-rufis, fascia media purpurea indeterminata ; 
scutellum fasciis quatuor purpureis indistinclis, la basali,2a Saque 
connexis ; pectus purpureum, plaga centrali flava, vittis duabus 
lateralibus ochraceo-rufis ; venter ochraceo-rufis, vittis duabus den- 
tatis purpureis, fasciis abbreviatis flavis ; pedes purpurei, femoribus 
ochraceo-rufis. 
Dull red, with a slight chalybeous tinge, elongate-oval, thickly and 
minutely punctured. Head rather short; middle lobe keeled. Eyes livid. 
Rostrum testaceous. Autennse black; first joint testaceous ; second about 
half the length of the third; fourth longer than the third, a little longer 
than the fifth. Thorax somewhat gibbous, with a transverse callus on each 
side in front, and with two broad orange-red marginal stripes which do not 
extend hindward beyond the much-rounded hind angles; an indistinct 
purple band across the middle. Scutellum with four indistinct purple 
bands, of which the first is basal ; second and third bands connected. 
Pectus purple; middle part yellow; an ochraceous-red stripe on each side. 
Abdomen beneath ochraceous-red, and with an abbreviated yellow band on 
the fore border of each segment. Legs purple; coxae and feiiiora ochraceous- 
red. Fore wings blackish cinereous, black along the costa. Length of the 
body — 7 lines. 
a — c. East Africa. Presented bv Earl Russell. 
tf 
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Callidea distingue nda. 
distinguenda, Reiche et Fairm. Voy. Abyss. Ent. 433. 
i. 45. 
Abyssinia. 
Callidea Baro. 
Var. Tetrarthria tetraspila, page 19. 
Stal, Hem. Afr. 
Callidea fasciata. 
Tetrarthria fasciata, page 20. 
Callidea sobria. 
Tetrarthria sobria, page 21. 
