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Rh according to Mr. Westwood, may possibly be referrible to the genus Cerbus. It is a native of Sierra Leone, about an inch in length, and the greater part of the surface brown; the thorax margined with yellow, and the coriaceous portion of the hemelytra bordered behind and along the apex with a band of the same colour; head and abdomen red; legs yellowish brown, the colour deepening towards the foot.

ANISOSCELES HYMENIPHERA. XX. Fig. 3.

a figure and the following notice of this new species of Anisosceles, we are indebted to Mr. Westwood, in whose cabinet the specimen is preseryed. The genus must now be restricted to such kinds as have long and slender legs, and the posterior tibiæ furnished with a broad membranous appendage on each side. The type is the common Brazilian Lygæus bilineatus, Fabr (Diactor elegans, Perty; Anises, latifolia, Serville.) Another species is the A. latipes, (Guerin's Mag. Zool. pl. 75,) from Mexico. A third species, undescribed, closely allied to the latter, but smaller, with the thorax and hemelytra entirely fulvous red, and the legs entirely pale ochreous, is contained in the collection of the Jardin des Plantes, and to which the specific name of affinis may be applied. The species here figured is a native of Mexico; it is about nine lines long, fulvo-testaceous, the thorax with a black line behind, but the margin itself yellow; scutellum black, the edges and a central line yellow; legs yellow, with black lines,