Part 47

Head and thorax dark orange, the latter with three longitudinal streaks of a darker colour. Antennæ dark orange and black, the last articulation orange. Scutellum triangular, and dark brown. Hemelytra striated with dark orange and brown, the extremities being of a bronze-colour and glossy. Abdomen darker than the other parts. Rostrum extending to the middle legs. Legs orange-brown, the hinder ones having the thighs and tibiæ serrated.

HAMMATOCERUS CONSPICILLARIS.

Plate XLV. fig. 8.

ORDER: Hemiptera. SUBORDER: Heteroptera. SECTION: Geocorisa. FAMILY: Reduviidæ, Leach.

GENUS. HAMMATOCERUS, Burm. Hammacerus, Laporte. Cimex, Drury.

HAMMATOCERUS CONSPICILLARIS. Niger, elytris basi albis, maculâ irregulari nigrâ, abdominis marginibus rubro-maculatis. (Long. Corp. 1 unc. 1½ lin.)

SYN. Cimex conspicillaris, Drury, App. vol. 3. Laporte Hemipt. p. 79. Burmeister Hem. p. 236. 2.

HABITAT: Brazil.

Head small and black. Antennæ setaceous, black, and about half the length of the insect. Thorax black. Scutellum triangular and black, but tipped with white. Hemelytra black, the base white, whereon is an oblong black spot. Abdomen dark red, edged with dark red and black. Rostrum short and curled, not reaching to the fore legs. Legs black.

PLATE XLVI.

PENTATOMA CATENA.

Plate XLVI. fig. 1.

ORDER: Hemiptera. SUBORDER: Heteroptera. SECTION: Geocorisa. FAMILY: Pentatomidæ.

GENUS. PENTATOMA, Latreille. Cimex, Fabr. Drury.

PENTATOMA CATENA. Albida, pronoti dorso maculâ magnâ nigrâ, lineâ tenui albâ in medio divisâ, scutello maculâ basali, alterâ subapicali, membranâque elytrorum nigris. (Long. Corp. lin. 7½.)

SYN. Cimex catena, Drury, App. vol. 3.

HABITAT: Brazil.

{65}Head cream-coloured and black. Antennæ about half the length of the insect. Thorax flesh-coloured; a large black spot occupying the middle, which is divided by a cream-coloured line. Scutellum shaped like a bell, black, surrounded with cream colour, and divided transversely by a line of the same colour. Hemelytra flesh-coloured, the extremities black. Beneath cream-coloured, with a great many black spots. Rostrum black, extending below the fore legs. Legs cream, streaked with black.

EDESSA VIRENS.

Plate XLVI. fig. 2.

ORDER: Hemiptera. SUBORDER: Heteroptera. SECTION: Geocorisa. FAMILY: Scutati, Burm.

GENUS. EDESSA, Fabr. Centroproctus, Hahn. Cimex, Drury.

EDESSA VIRENS. Obscure virescens, elytris fuscis margine externo pallido, pronoto lateribus utrinque in spinam longam rectam et acutam productis. (Long. Corp. 10½ lin.)

SYN. Cimex virens, Drury, App. vol. 3.

Edessa cervus? Fabr. Syst. Rh. 146. 2.

HABITAT: Brazil.

Antennæ small, about two-thirds the length of the insect. Head, thorax, and scutellum dirty green; the latter large and triangular. The thorax on each side ends in very acute angles. Hemelytra brown, but were probably green when the insect was living. Beneath dirty green. Rostrum extending beyond the hinder legs.

LARGUS LINEOLA.