HEMIPTERA ilETEROPTERA. 
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Rhaphigaster perornatus. 
Rufus, conferle et sublililer punctatus, sublus luteiis ; caput cyaneum,rufo 
marginatum; thorax cyaneo bimaculatus ; scutelLum cyaneum,dimidio 
apicali rufo ; venter macula subapicali nigra; pedes pallide Jiavi, 
femoribiis tibiis tarsisque apice tibiisque basi nigris ; alee anticce striga 
obliqua cyanea, membrana nigro-fusca, dimidio apicali pellucido. 
Red, elliptical, shining, thickly and minutely punctured, luteous 
beneath. Head deep blue above; lateral lobes bordered with red on the 
outer side. Eyes black, prominent. Rostrum luteous, black towards the 
tip, extending to the middle coxae. Antennae black, slender; first joint 
not extending to the front of the head ; second much longer than the third ; 
fourth a little longer than the second; fifth a little longer than the fourth. 
Thorax with a large elongated deep blue spot on each side of the disk; 
hind angles rounded, hardly prominent. Scutellum deep blue for half the 
length from the base, rounded at the tip. Pectus black. Abdomen beneath 
with a large black subapical spot; ventral spine extending to the middle 
coxae. Legs pale yellow; femora black towards the tips; tibiae black at 
the base and at the tips; tarsi with black tips. Fore wings with an oblique 
deep blue streak, which extends from the disk to the exterior border; 
membrane blackish brown, with the exterior half colourless and pellucid. 
Length of the body lines. 
a. Whydah. From Mr. Fraser’s collection. 
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RhaPHIGASTER aUINQUEMACULATOS. 
Rufus, conferte et subtiliter punctatus ; caput nigrum, rufo quinque vit- 
tatum; rostrum coxas intermedias attingens ; thorax callis duobus 
transversis nigris rufo strigatis ; scutellum lateribus basi maculisque 
tribus nigris ; pectus et venter nigro trivittata ; spina ventralis coxas. 
intermedias attingens; alee anticce striga postica maculaque apicali 
nigris, membrana pellucida. 
Red, elliptical, shining, thickly and minutely black-punctured. Head 
black, rounded in front, with five red stripes, of which the inner pair are 
short; lobes of equal length. Eyes piceous, not prominent. Rostrum 
black towards the tip, extending to the middle coxae. Thorax in front with 
two transverse black calli, each including a red streak; hind angles rounded,^ 
not prominent. Scutellum much rounded at the tip, with three black spots, 
one in the disk before the middle and one on each side beyond the middle; 
sides black towards the base. Pectus and under side of the abdomen with 
three black stripes, the middle stripe macular on the abdomen ; ventral 
spine extending to the middle coxa3. Fore wings with a black apical spot 
and with a black streak along the hind part of the exterior border; mem- 
brane pellucid. Length of the body 3| lines. 
Formosa. In the National Museum at Melbourne. 
