Order: Hemiptera. Suborder: Heteroptera. Section: Geocorisa, Latr. Family: Coreidæ, Leach. (Anisoscelites, Laporte.)
Genus. Leptoscelis, Laporte. Anisoscelis p. Burm. Lygæus p. Fabr.
Leptoscelis Pictus. Niger, capitis lineâ dorsali, thoraceque crenulato rufis, hoc anticè maculâ margineque postico nigris, femoribus gracilibus denticulatis, abdomine supra cyaneo maculis marginalibus rufis. (Long. Corp. 7½ lin.)
Syn. Cimex pictus. Drury, App. vol. 2.
Lygæus crenulatus, Fabr. Ent. Syst. 4. 144. 33. Syst. Rh. 250. 11. (Alydus cr.)
Habitat: Antigua.
Head small and slender; red, striped with black. Eyes round and projecting. Antennæ black, and nearly the length of the insect; four-jointed. Thorax red, with black marks near the head, and another near the abdomen; the sides lying high and angular. Scutellum black and triangular. Hemelytra dark (almost black), the apical membrane being rather less so than the basal portion. Wings almost transparent. Abdomen above, blue along the centre, and red on the edges, indented with black; beneath red and brown, as are also the breast and sides. Legs black. Hinder thighs, having several spines on them. The proboscis extends to about the middle of the abdomen.
This species is very closely allied to the insect figured in Plate [43], fig. 3.; nevertheless, their descriptions are placed very widely apart in the Systema Rhyngotorum. They appear to form a good subgenus, nearly allied to Hypselopus of Burmeister, which is confined to Africa.
EUMENES ABDOMINALIS.
Plate [XLV]. fig. 2.