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armed with a number of minute teeth, tibiae all pale piceous, middle femora 

 piceous, paler toward the base. 



Length 12 millim. < Hong-Kong, China. 



Peliosoma, Uhler. 



Body elongated ; head long, triangular, each side, between the antenna?, with 

 a small, curved lamellae, concave on the exterior side, interrupted at the origin 

 of the rostrum, and not extending back much beyond the antenna? ; rostrum 

 reaching but little behind the anterior coxa?, basal and second joints subequal 

 in length, third and fourth also subequal ; antennae ^ as long as the body, 9 

 not quite two-thirds of that length, basal joint longest, clavate at tip, second 

 somewhat longer than the third, fourth shortest, subfusiform ; thorax elongated 

 subtrapezoidal, base elevated, lateral margins obtusely and feebly carinated ; 

 hemelytra as long as the abdomen, membrane with five longitudinal nervules; 

 legs normal, anterior tibiae curved. 



P. antennat a. Tawney, lustrous, punctured with black ; head and thorax 

 densely punctured, the latter with a longitudinal, raised, polished, yellow line, 

 but little punctured, lateral obsolete, carina yellow, posterior angles tubercu- 

 lar; anterior lobe convex, a broad transverse depression behind it; antenna? 

 honey-yellow, paler upon the third joint, apices of the first and second joints 

 dusky, last joint entirely so ; eyes and ocelli brown ; rostrum fulvous, dusky 

 behind the middle to the tip ; scutellum with a yellow line at tip and a yellow, 

 short, tubercle-like line each side of base ; corium dusky near the internal 

 angle, apex with a small blackish dot, membrane honey-yellow, with white 

 nervules ; field of the tergum black, sides yellow, with black dots at the incisu- 

 ral margins; beneath varied with piceous and testaceous, pectus more uniformly 

 pitchy, densely punctured, margins of the venter tawney yellow ; legs honey- 

 yellow, pointed with black ; tips of tibiae and tarsal joints blackish. 



Length 8 millim. Simoda, Japan. 



Opthalmicus, Schill. 



0. v a r i u s . Black ; head and legs orange-yellow ; antenna? piceous, basa* 

 joint and apex of the third, yellowish ; eyes light-brown, rostrum honey-yellow! 

 thorax square, broader than long, surface polished, black, coarsely punctured) 

 posterior angles with a subquadrate, small, yellow spot ; scutellum black 

 punctured ; corium and membrane honey-yellow, the former punctured with 

 black, most thickly so upon the exterior and interior margins ; tergum and 

 beneath polished black ; pectus punctured. 



Length 5 millim $. Simoda, Japan. 



It belongs to Fieber's second subdivision (a**) and seems to approach 

 his 0. s i c u 1 u s , more nearly than any other species. 



PYRRHOCORID^E. 



PtrrhocoriS; Fallen. 



P. Forsteri, Fab. Ent. Syst. iv. 164. H. Schf. W. I. viii. tab. 283, f. 

 872. Cape Good Hope. 



Dysdekcus, Serv. 



D. c a r n i f e x , Fab. Ent. Syst. iv. 160. H. Schf. W. I. ii. tab. 66, f. 199. 

 Cape Good Hope. 



D. Schlanbuschii, Fab. Ent. Syst. iv. 155. Donovan, Ins. China, 

 tab. 20, f. 2. Hong Kong. 



Leptocoris, Hahn. 



L. haematideus, Hahn., W. I. tab. i, fig. 3, vol. i. Hong Kong, Chins. 



I860.] 



