IIEMIPTF.RA HKTEROPTERA. 507 



It a}i[rees mostly with the description of C. rudis ; but the latter is said 

 (o he very deeply punctured. It is closely allied to C.parenlum, but in 

 the latter there is a broad purple band on the hind part of the head, and 

 the arrangement of the spots on the thorax and on the scutellum is very 

 different. 



a. Batchian. Presented by W. W, Saunders, Esq. 



Cantao conscitus. 



Ochraceus, sublilUer punc talus ; caput man/ine postico vitiaque lanceolata 

 niyris ; thorax angulis poslicis macuiisque duabus parvis transvcrsis 

 nigris ; sculcllnm nigra octunolatum ; pectus nigrum, nchraceo pallida 

 marginatum ; venter fasciis tribiis abbrcviatis intcrruptis, maculis 

 duabus magnis posterioribus macuiisque parvis marginalibus nigris ; 

 pedes nigri ; alie antica luridce, 



Ochraceous, elongate, paler beneath. Head black along the hind 

 border and with a black lanceolate stripe which does not extend to the fore 

 border, black beneath except along each side. Eyes, rostrum, antennae 

 and legs black ; joints of the antennae from the third to the fifth successively 

 decreasing in length; second about half the length of the third. Thorax 

 with the hind angles slightly obtuse; fore border black; a small transverse 

 black sjjot on each side near the fore border. Scutellum with eight black 

 marks; two basal dots; a quadrangular spot near the base, with a dot on 

 each side of it ; an oblique dot on each side at a little beyond the middle 

 and a smaller dot nearer the tip. Pectus black, except along each side. 

 Abdomen beneath with three short interrupted black bands, and with two 

 large posterior black spots and with small black marginal spots. Eore wings 

 lurid. Length of the body 10 lines. 



It may be the female of C. inscilus, and it differs still more than the 

 latter from C. parentum. 



a. Batchian. Presented by W. W. Saunders, Esq. 



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SCUTELLERA AMETHYSTINA. 



, Stall, Pun. 34, pi, 7, f. 49; 138, pi. 36, f. 251— Scutellera ame- 



thystina, Germ. Zeits. i. 124. Vollenh, Scut. 12 — S. lanius, p. 15. 



Borneo. 



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Scutellera pubescens. 



LcEte purpurea, fusiformis, dense pubescens, subtu^ cyanea ; antennw 

 nigrw ; thorax fascia late interrupta vittisque tribus posticis obscure 

 cupreis ; scutellum maculis sex magnis obscure cupreis, la basali, 

 6a apicali; pectus cupreo maculatum ; venter cyaneo-viridis, scgmentis 

 cupreo fascialis. 



Bright purple, fusiform, thickly pubescent above, blue beneath. Middle 

 lobe of the head dark cupreous except towards the tij). Eyes livid, 

 nostrum and antenna; black. Antenna nearly half the length of the body; 

 second joint more than half the length of the third; fourth niucii 

 longer than the third; fifth about as long as (he fourth. Thorax 



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