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Show 1901.] IN THE HOPE COLLECTION AT OXFORD. 329 ACANTHOCEPHALA FEMORATA. Cimex femoratus Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 708 (1775). Metapodius bispinus Westw. in Hope Cat. ii. p. 15 (1842). ACANTHOCEPHALA .EQUALIS. (Plate XXIX. fig. 1.) Metapodius equalis Westw. in Hope Cat. ii. p. 14 (1842). Allied to A. latipes Dm., from which it differs by tbe more attenuated and less notched posterior tibia?. ACANTHOCEPHALA CONSOBRINA. (Plate XXIX. fig. 7.) Metapodius consobrinus Westw. in Hope Cat. ii. p. 15 (1842). Metapodius nigricans Westw. loc. cit. Westwood's types are unlocalized; the British Museum also possesses two specimens of the species, but both without habitats. ACANTHOCEPHALA APICALIS. Metapodius apicalis Westw. in Hope Cat. ii. p. 15 (1842). Form and size of A. consobrina, pronotal angles less produced, colour different, &c. ACANTHOCEPHALA ANGUSTIPES. Metapodius angustipes Westw. in Hope Cat. ii. p. 15 (1842). Metapodius constrictus Walk. Cat, Het. iv. p. 47. n. 4 (1871). Westwood's type is unlocalized ; Walker's typical specimen is from Barbadoes ; auother specimen in the British Museum is from Cayenne. The Colombian specimen identified by Dallas (List Hem. ii. p. 430. n. 6, 1852) as A. angustipes is not West-wood's species. EMPEDOCLES TENUICORNIS. (Plate XXX. fig. 1.) Metapodius tenuicornis Westw. in Hope Cat. ii. p. 16 (1842). Empedocles tenuicornis Stal, Ea. Hem. i. p. 152 (1870). Both Westwood's type and Stal's representative are unlocalized, so that the habitat of this species is still to be discovered. STENOSCELIDEA ALBOVARIA. (Plate XXX. fig. 7.) Stenoscelidea albovaria Westw. in Hope Cat. ii. p. 18 (1842). Subfam. HOMUZOCERINJE. HOMCSOCERUS BIGUTTATA. Homceocerus 2-guttatus Westw. in Hope Cat. ii. p. 22 (1842). Homceocerus sikhimensis Dist. Ent. Mouth. Mag. xxv. p. 231 (1889). HOMCEOCERUS SERRIPER. Coreus serrifer Westw. in Hope Cat. ii. p. 24 (1842). Homceocerus parvulus Walk. Cat. Het. iv. p. 101. n. 32 (1871). Homceocerus unipunctatus Dall. (nee Thunb.) List Hem. ii. p. 447. n. 11 (1852). |