144 HEMIPTERA. 



seriebus reticulata ; elytris maculis sparsis nigris, inar- 

 gine reflexa reticulata ; femoribus tarsisque piceis, tibiis 

 ferrugineis ; antennis ferrugineis apice nigro. 



Broad, oval. IIeadv!\&ev than the front of the thorax, 

 pitchy-black, in front of the eyes ferruginous, the two short 

 horns on the crown ferruginous at the tip. 



Antennce ferruginous, the third joint rather paler, the 

 fourth joint black. The reticulated sheath of the rostrum 

 luteous. 



Pronotum luteous, lightly punctured, wider behind than 

 in front, the posterior margin produced into a long angle 

 which extends over the region of the scutellum ; behind the 

 anterior margin the pronotum is deeply depressed, and 

 across this depression is a wide sub-quadrate ferruginous 

 blotch ; the anterior and posterior angles rounded ; outer 

 margin broad, membranous, reflexed, with three rows of 

 rounded meshes ; the central portion of the anterior margin 

 is produced into a hood, slightly inclined over the head, 

 viewed from above is lozenge-shaped, reticulated ; the raised 

 line or keel extends from the posterior angle of the pronotum 

 across the central depression and over the centre of the hood, 

 and viewed sideways is reticulated. 



Elyti^a broad, oval, wider than the pronotum, deep 

 luteous, with several irregularly disposed black spots, with 

 rows of reticulations ; the discoidal cell on each elytron oc- 

 cupies two-thirds of its length, somewhat ^-shaped, pointed 

 at each end, the upper end pointing from the suture, the 

 lower end towards it ; from the lower end of the cell a 

 raised line extends almost the length of the remaining thii-d 

 of the elytron, turning at its extremity slightly towards the 

 suture ; meshes rounded, across the centre of each elytron 

 there are two rows from the suture to the discoidal cell, five 

 rows across the cell and four rows from the cell to the 



