Habitat: Sierra Leone.
Head dark orange. Antennæ filiform, four-jointed, about three-fourths the length of the insect. Thorax brown, edged with yellow. Scutellum triangular, not large, brown. Hemelytra brown, one-half of the posterior edge next the body having a yellow line running along it, crossing the middle, and ending at the anterior edge. Wings diaphanous. Abdomen red, edged with black. Rostrum slender, and extending just below the fore-legs. Legs yellow-brown. Tibiæ and tarsi almost black.
DIASPIDIUS SCAPHA.
Plate [XLIII]. fig. 4.
Order: Hemiptera. Suborder: Heteroptera. Section: Geocorisa. Family: Reduviidæ, Leach.
Genus. Diaspidius, Westw. Cimex, Drury.
Diaspidius Scapha. Fulvus; capite, antennis, pronoti lobo antico, membranâ elytrorum pedibusque nigris. (Expans. Alar. 2 unc.)
Syn. Cimex Scapha, Drury, App. vol. 3.
Habitat: Sierra Leone.
Head very small, black, hairy, and long. Antennæ filiform, about half the length of the insect. The fore part of the thorax is hairy and black; the remainder and the scutellum yellow-brown. Basal half of the hemelytra orange-coloured, the remainder dark brown. Wings diaphanous. Abdomen brown-yellow. Rostrum short and black, not reaching to the fore-legs, which are black. Middle and hind legs partly black and brown.