BEMIPTEKA HETEKOPTEKA PEN I -VI i >M11>.E. 



d i iced nt the hinder lateral angles, ami had its lateral margin slightly den- 

 ticulate anteriorly. The scutellum is large, a little narrower than the breadth 

 i'l the hase of the abdomen, of nearly equal length and breadth, pretty regu- 

 larly triangular, hut with a slight emargination of the sides on their basal 

 half; the tip bluntly pointed and rounded ofl', extending a little way upon 

 the middle of the strongly advanced fourth abdominal segment. The sur- 

 face of the head, prothorax, and scutellum is covered pretty uniformly and 

 abundantly with distinct round punctures, which are, however, dee] 

 most sharply defined, and so abundant as nearly to occupy the entire sur- 

 face, on, the front half of the head and next the margins of the prothorax. 

 '1'hi- corinm of the tegmina includes more than half the wing, and is covered 

 with punctures, deeply impressed, and much minuter and more frequent 

 than on the scutellum ; there is also a distinct vein passing down the middle, 

 a litth- to one side, and another separating the clavus from the corium, but 

 distinct on the specimen only apically, where it is continuous with the inner 

 margin of the membrane. The membrane is well rounded, but slightly pro- 

 duced at the outer angle, and the space is occupied by nine nearly loiigi- 

 tudinal veins, distributed in three sets of three each : the first set is composed 

 c.l three oliM'iire veins, pretty close together next the inner edge, originating 

 from the same point, equidistant from one another, the innermost hugging 

 the inner margin; from apparently the same point originates the in\t 

 clu.-ter. starting in a single vein, which almost immediately forks, and .-ends 

 it> innermost branch parallel to those mentioned ; the other branch >ii\e> 

 strongly from it and ugain forks, the two branches ruimin;_ r parallel to the 

 lir-t ; while from opposite the point of origin of the la-t fork tin third cluster 

 takes its rise, starting as a shouldered vein, which forks at its shoulder into 

 t\\o slightly divergent veins which run subparallel to the previous veins; but 

 the innermost of these again forks beyond its middle, crowding the vein- 

 t IMT at tin.- ) point. There is also a short, tenth, independent vein do.-r i,. 

 the outer extremity of the produced coriaceous Held. The outer margin of 

 the \\in- indelicately wrinkled with a simulation of veinlets. The abdomen 

 ig ovate, somewhat regularly tapering at its outer half : the ape\ ob-cnre 

 but apparent!} regularly rounded : the pleura- are punctured like the scu- 

 tellum. while the dorsal surface is minutely and profu-elv but oh-cinvlv 

 punctulate Such portion.- of the chitine as remain are of an intense black 

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