of some Hemipterous Insects. 89 



The next species to be described comes near the beautiful Scu- 

 tellera lineata, by far the most beautiful of all the European 

 Scutelleridce. It may be characterized as follows. 



Scutellera (Trigonosoma, Burm.) interrupta, 

 Gapkosoma interruptum, White, 1. c, p. 541. 



S. nigra, thorace lineis tr'ibus, dorsali solum clongatu, parlisque 

 posterioris arcuhus ochraceis ; scutello lineis tribus margineque 

 tenui ochraceis, capite acuminato. 

 Long. Hn. 6|. 

 Hab. in Ins. Teneriffe. In Mus. Brit. 



This differs from the Sc. lineata in having a more pointed head, 

 with a dorsal red line ; and instead of the thorax having, as in that 

 species, five distinct and continuous longitudinal lines, it has only 

 three, an elongated dorsal, and two abbreviated yellowish red 

 ones, reaching from the anterior margin to beyond the middle. 

 On each side near the posterior angle of thorax is an incurved 

 elongated spot, the anterior lateral margin slightly, and the pos- 

 terior more broadly, edged with yellowish red as in lineata. The 

 scutellum has three red lines, the central one not reaching the 

 apex, the lateral ones gradually diminish in thickness as they 

 approach the middle, where they become very obscure, but at 

 length dilate on the margin, and reach almost to the apex ; the 

 side of scutellum is slightly margined with the same colour. The 

 upper projecting part of abdomen is black, and not spotted with 

 red as in lineata ; the sides beneath are also very obscurely spotted 

 with black. Legs yellow, with a black ring in front of the apex 

 of femora. Note. — The yellowish red colour may in life be as 

 bright as in the corresponding Sc. lineata and semipunctata. 

 (Since this paper was read I have described another allied species, 

 brought from Persia by Sir John Mc Neill, under the name of 

 S. (G.) Wilsoni, Mag. of Nat. Hist., Nov. 1839, p. 540.) 



The Rev. Mr. Hope's Podops spinifera seems to be syno- 

 nymous with the Teiyra spinosa of Fabricius, who described it 

 twice under different names, in the Supplement to his Ent. Syst. 



M. Laporte's generic name Oxynotus has been pre-occupied by 

 Mr. Swainson in Ornithology, and must consequently be altered ; 

 Cyrtocoris might not improperly be applied to it. 



description is merely a translation of that of Fabricius. In my opinion it comes 

 close to the g&n\xs Solenosthedium of Spinola (Essai, &c. p. 360 ; 1837), with 

 which Coeloglossa of Germar (Zeitsch. 5^:c. p. 130; 1839) is synonymous. (1840.) 



