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Length 3 lines. Humeral breadth 3. Takanosima, Japan. 

 This species bears some resemblance in form to P. scabricorne, H. Schf. : 

 but differs in the form of the humeral angles. 



Strachia, Hahn. 



S. ornata, Linn. Fauna Suecica, 251, 937. Loo-Choo Islands. 



A remarkably small variety of this species was obtained at Petropaulovsk, 

 Kamtschatka ; it differs from the type in marking, chiefly, in wanting the me- 

 dial lateral black spot ; the specimens are males, being six millims. in length. 



Eysarcoris, Spin. 



E. perlatus, Fab. Ent. Syst. iv. 125, 177. Simoda and Loo-Choo. 

 One specimen has the spots of the base of the scutellum very minute, and in 

 auother they are entirely wanting. 



Nezara, Amyot et Serv. 



N. torquata, Fab. Ent. Syst. iv. 108, 107. Loo-Choo. 



Rhaphigaster, Lap. 



R. disjectu s. Grayish-agneous, shining ; head bluntly rounded, middle 

 lobe about as long as the lateral ones ; surface confluently punctured, tinged 

 with purplish green anteriorly, eyes brownish, ocelli reddish, antennae piceous 

 pubescent, base of the apical joint yellow, rostrum yellowish, a line above and 

 tip piceous ; thorax brassy-greenish, tinged with purplish, confluently punc- 

 tured, lateral margins regularly oblique, smooth, yellow, humeral angles 

 slightly rounded, a little prominent, margin against the head yellowish ; scu- 

 tellum same color as the thorax, confluently punctured, a little sinuated before 

 the tip, tip and a geminate spot each side at base yellow ; corium grayish-yel- 

 low, punctured with black, punctures very dense upon the clavus and lateral 

 margins ; membrane and wings yellowish-testaceous ; tergum black with a vio- 

 let reflection, segments each with a yellow spot upon the lateral margin ; be- 

 neath grayish-yellow, coarsely pointed with black, points absent from the disk. 

 which is smooth, yellow, points becoming confluent in spots posteriorly and 

 upon the external edges of the segmental incisures ; sternum black, finely cari- 

 nate in the middle ; ventral spine reaching to the medio-coxae, yellow ; legs 

 yellowish, pointed with black, a black band upon the knees, and another at the 

 tips of the tibife, tarsi blackish, middle joint paler. 



Length 5 lines. Humeral breadth 2 lines. Hong-Kong. 



Acanthosoma, Curtis. 

 A. haeraatogaster, Burm. Handb. ii. 360, 4. Hong-Kong. 



Tesseratoma, Lep. et Serv. 



T. chinensis, Thunb. Nov. Ins. Spec. 45, tab. 2, f. 59. Hong-Kong. 



Dichelops, H. Schf. 



D. affinis. Elongated-oval, testaceous-yellow, punctured with black, 

 head elongated-triangular, deeply cleft in the middle, points applied, hardly 

 divaricating at the tip, middle lobe about half the length of the external ones, 

 punctured, antennae reddish, incisures and apical half of the tip joint black, 

 rostrum yellowish, with the extreme tip black ; thorax transverse, gradually 

 elevated to the middle, upon which a slightly elevated, arcuated transverse 

 carina, continued to the subacute humeral angles, exists, surface finely wrinkled 

 and punctured, lateral margins lightly arcuated, minutely denticulated ; scutel- 

 lum transversely wrinkled, punctured, and having five longitudinal rows of 

 obsolete granulations; before the tip sinuated, much narrowed ; hemelytra very 

 finely punctured with black, membrane testaceous ; wings milk-white ; venter 

 finely punctured with black, extreme lateral margin a line just outside of the 



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