AROCERA.—VULSIREA. 790 
Arocera principalis, Stal, Stett. ent. Zeit. xxiii. p. 107. 84°. 
Arocera splendens, Stal, Stett. ent. Zeit. xxiii. p. 107. nota‘; En. Hem. ii. p. 88. 6”. 
Hab. Muxico?%5 (coll. Signoret; Mus. Berol.); British Honpuras, Rio Hondo 
(Blancaneaux) ; GUATEMALA, Panzos, Vera Paz (Champion) ; Costa Rica, Irazu and 
Rio Sucio (Rogers); Panama (Boucard).—CotomsBia 1245; VENEZUELA ?. 
The variety figured (from Costa Rica), besides the wider anterior and lateral borders 
to the pronotum, and the reddish colour of the scutellum, has the underside of the 
body uniform green, with only the margin reddish. Two varieties from Mexico in the 
Berlin Museum resemble this form, but have also the disk of the pronotum and the 
greater part of the corium of the same reddish hue; in these species, however, the 
underside of the body possesses the red macular markings as in typical and, to judge 
from their greater number and persistency, normal forms. 
The typical specimen figured is from Mexico, the A. principalis, Stal, and is in the 
collection of Dr. Signoret. 
8. Arocera rufo-notata. (Tab. VII. fig. 15.) 
Arocera rufo-notata, Stal, Stett. ent. Zeit. xxii. p. 140. 7°; xxii. p. 106. 837; En. Hem. ii. 
p. 38. 7°. 
Hab. Mzxico 128 (coll. Signoret) (Bilimek, Mus. Vind. Ces.). 
VULSIREA. 
Vulsirea, Spinola, Ess. Hém. p. 350 (1887) ; Dall. List Hem. i. p. 196 (1851) ; Stal, Ofv. Vet.-Ak. 
Forh. 1867, p. 531. 
We now approach that portion of the subfamily Pentatomine in which the abdomen 
is more or less distinctly spinous at the base. This genus possesses that character, 
and has also the basal joints of the antenne longer than the head; the lobes of the 
head are subequal in length. 
Vulsirea is confined to the Antilles and Tropical America; of three described species 
two are found in this fauna. 
1. Vulsirea insignis. 
Edessa insignis, Blanch, Hist. Nat. Ins. p. 144. 3°. 
Vulsirea liturata, Dall. List Hem. i. p. 273. 7”. 
Taurocerus cinctus, H.-S. Wanz. Ins. ix. p. 316, f. 1001’. 
Vulsirea insignis, Stal, Stett. ent. Zeit. xxiii. p. 108. 89°; En. Hem. ii. p. 39. 1°. 
Hab. Mexico }45 (coll. Dist.).—Sovrn Amurica?. 
Of two specimens of this species in my own collection, the connexivum varies in its 
ground-colour from luteous to pale sanguineous. Herrich-Schaffer as a habitat writes 
‘«‘ Wahrscheinlich aus Ostindien,” which is clearly erroneous. 
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