72 HEMIPTERA-HETEROPTERA. 
ROCCONOTA. 
Rocconota, Stal, Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Forh. xvi. p. 370 (1859), xxiii. p. 293 (1866); Enum. Hemipt. ii. 
pp. 69, 79. 
It is doubtful if this Tropical-American genus can be retained as distinct from 
Repipta, Stal. The species here referred to Rocconota have the anterior femora more 
or less incrassate, the third antennal joint slender in both sexes *, the abdomen with 
one or more of the basal segments armed with a spine at the outer apical angles 
(except in &. tuberculigera), the head and posterior lobe of the pronotum armed with 
long spines or tubercles, the outer area of the membrane nearly or quite as long as 
the inner. A. octispina should perhaps be separated, it having a differently formed 
scutellum. . 
a. Scutellum raised along the middle posteriorly, the post-scutellum more or 
less produced at the apex, not clothed with agglutinated tomentum. 
a’, Anterior lobe of the pronotum with two prominent conical tubercles ; 
abdominal segments 1 and 2 spinose at their outer apical angles . . rufotestacea, n. sp. 
8’. Anterior lobe of the pronotum unarmed. 
a”, Abdomen with the first and second segments spinose at their outer 
apical angles: body very sparsely pilose beneath . . . . . . Jdeviceps,n.sp. 
6”. Abdomen with the first segment only spinose at the outer apical 
angles. 
, Body closely pubescent beneath, the venter with smooth bare 
spots ; the knees sometimes speckled or annulated with fuscous. annulicornis, Stal. 
ob’. Body very sparsely pilose beneath; the legs very distinctly 
annulated with fuscous . ...... . =... . . Aystricula, n. sp. 
c’, Abdomen unarmed at the sides; scutellum produced into an 
upwardly curved spme  .. . . . tuberculigera, Stal. 
6. Scutellum flattened, the post-scutellum not t produced at the : apex, clothed 
with a dense white agglutinated tomentum; anterior lobe of the pro- 
notum with two prominent conical tubercles ; abdominal segments 1-4 
strongly spinose at their outer apical angles . . . . . . . . . octispina, Stal. 
1. Rocconota rufotestacea, n. sp. (Tab. XVI. fig. 19, 2.) 
. Very elongate, sparsely pilose ; rufo-testaceous, the membrane smoky-hyaline, with the nervures partly 
fuscous, the four hinder femora obscurely annulated with darker colour near the apex (perhaps due to 
discoloration), the long spines on the posterior lobe of the pronotum black at the base in front and flavous 
at the tip. Head elongate, smooth, armed with two long spines; antennez long and slender. Pronotuma 
little longer than the head, armed with two blunt divergent spines on the disc of the anterior lobe, and 
with two long acute spines on the posterior lobe and a similar spine at each of the lateral angles; the 
posterior lobe rugulose and with indications of two faint anteriorly converging carine on the disc extending 
from the spines forwards; the anterior lobe smooth and sulcate, with the angles subconically tuberculate. 
Scutellum produced at the apex into a short horizontal dentiform process. Elytra slightly longer than the 
abdomen, the discoidal cell moderately long, the basal area of the membrane longer than the outer one. 
* The males of RB. rufotestacea and FR. leviceps are unknown. 
