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DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OY HEMIPTERA-HETEROFrERA 

 FROM CENTRAL AMERICA. 



BY JOHN SCOTT, 



The number o£ individuals of Hemiptera-JIeteroptera which I 

 have had in my possession for a very lengthened period, either given 

 to me by friends, or otherwise obtained, has induced me, now that I 

 have cleared other matters off, to commence upon their investigation. 

 They embrace examples from Chontales, Bogota, Eio Janeiro, St. Paulo, 

 and other places in the South American Continent ; and, beyond the 

 list which it is my intention to give, will, no doubt, furnish several 

 hitherto undescribed species. I shall in every instance add the source 

 from which they came, so that my friends may see that their many 

 little acts of kindness have not been forgotten. 



MICTIS (?), Leach. 

 MicTis (?) Jansoni. 



Ochreous-drab. Antennce black, with very short black hairs, insertion of the 

 Ist joint pale above, 4th with very short, yellow pubescence. Pronotmn between 

 the fine transverse wrinkles, thickly and finely punctured ; sides widely diverging 

 posteriorly, narrowly black, shining, dentate ; disc with three fuscous-black longitu- 

 dinal lines, the side ones shortest, terminating at a deep transverse depression beyond 

 the acute hinder angles ; hinder sides waved, narrowly black, toothed ; posterior 

 margin straight, with a slight tooth at the extremities of the scutellum. Scutellum, 

 disc, anteriorly coarsely, basal third finely, wrinkled, the latter regularly waved from 

 the centre. Elytra, except the nerves, very finely and irregularly punctured : 

 corium with a narrow, fuscous, longitudinal sti'cak at the base, within the marginal 

 nerve, and two short streaks on the disc : membrane pitchy- or slightly olive-brown, 

 shining. Sternum ochreous-drab, rugulose-punctate. Legs ochreous-yellow : thighs, 

 at the apex, dark ; tihice piceous ; tarsi pitchy-black. Abdomen, above and below, 

 brownish-yellow ; connexivum black, with an almost square reddish-yellow spot on 

 each segment ; last segment reddish-yellow, apex black. 



Head ochreous-drab, antenuiferous tubercles on the upper-side chestnut-brown. 

 Antennce black, clothed witli very short, stiffish, semi-erect, black hairs : 1st joint 

 insertion, on the upper-side, narrowly pale brownish-yellow, 4th clothed with a very 

 short, yellow pubescence, causing it to appear of a golden-yellow colour in certain 

 lights. Rostrum above, piceous. 



Thorax : pronotum ochreous-drab, somewhat shining, finely wrinkled trans- 

 versely, except a smooth space behind the collar, which is somewhat trilobate, 

 posteriorly, between the wrinkles thickly and finely punctured, and next the hinder 

 ' angles a few granules ; sides widely diverging as they approach the hinder angles, 

 where they are slightly concave, narrowly black, shining, armed with teeth rounded 

 on their tips ; disc with three fuscous-black longitudinal lines, the central one ex- 

 tending throughout its entire length from the inner margin of the collar, the side 

 ones about half its length, terminating at a deep transverse depression, extending 



