348 CATALOGUE OF r 



Metallic-green, elliptical, thinly and roughly punctured, whitish 

 beneath. Head with three whitish spots forming a band between the eyes, 

 and with a whitish streak on each of the lateral lobes, which extend a little 

 beyond the middle lobe; two green spots on each side beneath. Ror-trum 

 black, whitish at the base, extending a little beyond the middle coxse. 

 Antennae black, a little more than half the length of the body; first joint 

 extending to the front of the head ; third hardly shorter than the second, 

 longer than the fourth ; fifth a little longer than the fourth. Thorax with 

 a slight transverse furrow, luteous along the fore border and along each 

 side, whitish along the hind border; a whitish dot on each side in the 

 disk and a whitish stripe; angles slightly acute. Sculellum with a luteous 

 callus on each side; an abbreviated white stripe which is most slender in 

 front; tip white. Pectus with two green marginal stripes. Abdomen 

 beneath pale testaceous, with green spots along each side; coxae and 

 femora white, the latter irregularly green towards the lips ; tibiiB striped 

 with white. Fore wings with a luteous costal stripe, which extends along 

 nearly one-third of the length from the base and there meets a subcostal 

 streak which joins a slightly curved luteous subapical band ; an oblique 

 white line in the disk; membrane blackish. Length of the body 4^ lines. 



Like S. picta in structure. 



a. Moreton Bay. From Mr. Diggles' collection. 



Country unknown. 



97. Strachia vesiculosa. 



Cimex vesiculosus, H.-Sch. Wanz. Ins. v. 65, pi. 165, f. 509. 



98. Strachia minuscula. 



Rufa, aspere punctata ; caput nigrum., rufo marginatum ; rostrum nigrum ; 

 anlenme nigra;, corporis dimidio 7ion longiores ; thorax nigro sex 

 macidalus ; scntellum macula basalt magna trigona gutlisque duabus 

 postmediis nigris ; pectus et venter e macuiis nigris triviitala ; pedes 

 nigri ; ala anticce striga lata postica, macula postmedia maxima 

 guttaque subcostali nigris, fimbria nigricanle albido marginata. 



Bright red, elliptical, roughly punctured. Head black, bordered with 

 red on each side in front and on the fore border; sides slightly reflexed ; 

 lateral lobes conniving beyond the middle lobe. Eostrum black, extending 

 to the hind coxeb. Antennee black, about half the length of the body; first 

 joint hardly extending to the front of the head ; second a little longer than 

 the third; fourth much longer than the third; fifth a little longer than the 

 fourth. Thorax with three large black spots on each side. Scutellum with 

 a large triangular black spot on the fore border and with a black dot on 

 each side at two-thirds of the length. Pectus and under side of abdomen 

 with three stripes of very large black spots. Legs black. Fore wings with 

 a broad black streak extending from the base along the hind border, con- 

 nected with a very large pnstmedial black spot; a subcostal black dot 

 nearer the tip; fringe blackish, with a whitish pellucid border. Length of 

 the body 2j lines. 



