This very common Chinese insect has been confounded by Fabricius, &c. with an African species (Tesseratoma confusa Westw.) and by Saint Fargeau and Serville, with another from Java (Tesseratoma Javana, Klug. Burm. 2. 350. figured by Stoll. t. 1. fig. 2.) As, however, Drury's specific name, as applied to the Chinese species, has the priority in point of date, I have here reverted to it, and would apply a new specific name to the species from Sierra Leone. The Fabrician species belongs to a different section of the genus having the terminal joint of the antennæ elongated. The only specimens which I have seen of it are those contained in the Banksian Collection in the possession of the Linnæan Society of London. Wolff figures the Chinese species. I have little doubt that Donovan's figure is intended to represent the true papillosus, although it is given as an inhabitant of India. {92}LEPTOSCELIS BALTEATUS. Plate XLIII. fig. 3. ORDER: Hemiptera. SUBORDER: Heteroptera. SECTION: Geocorisa, _Latr._ FAMILY: Coreidæ, _Leach._ (Anisoscelites, _Laporte_.) GENUS. LEPTOSCELIS, _Laporte_. Anisoscelis p. _Burm._ Lygæus p. _Fabr._ LEPTOSCELIS BALTEATUS. Thorace subspinoso; ferrugineus, elytris lineâ transversâ flavâ, femoribus posticis gracilibus spinulosis. (Long. Corp. 6½ lin.) SYN. Cimex balteatus, _Linn. Mant._ 534. _Fabr. Ent. Syst._ 4. 142. 27. _Syst. Rh._ 213. 39. (Lygæus b.) HABITAT: Jamaica. Head small and slender, red brown, striped with black. Eyes projecting. Antennæ dark brown, or russet colour, and almost the length of the insect. Thorax red brown, with two small yellow spots in front; lying above the level of the head, and terminating at the side in right angles. Scutellum small and angular. Hemelytra coriaceous half way down, and with the basal portion brown red; the apical membrane opake and dark brown; having a yellow bar crossing them near the middle. Wings transparent. Abdomen, above, yellow, and edged with dark brown, the sides being entire; underneath, entirely dark clay-coloured. Proboscis extending to the abdomen along the breast, and lying between the legs. CENTRIS SURINAMENSIS. Plate XLIII. fig. 4. ORDER: Hymenoptera. SECTION: Mellifera. FAMILY: Apidæ, _Leach._ GENUS. CENTRIS, _Fabr._ Apis, _Drury_. CENTRIS SURINAMENSIS. Hirsuta nigra; abdomine, excepto primo segmento, flavo. (Mag. Xylocop. virginicâ minor.) SYN. Apis Surinamensis, _Linn. Syst. Nat._ 1. 2. 961. 52. _Fabr. Ent. Syst._ 2. 318. 14. _Syst. Piez._ 355. 3. (Centris S.) HABITAT: Surinam. Head black. Antennæ black. Tongue very long, extending to the middle of the abdomen. Thorax black and hairy. Wings transparent. Abdomen deep yellow, except the basal segment which is black. Breast and legs black, and covered with short hairs like pile. Hind legs very broad and thin, resembling scales; and at the tip of the tibiæ furnished with two sharp spurs; intermediate tibiæ also with two shorter spurs.