90 Mr. Adam White's Description 



The Plataspis functatus of Westwood, Canopus punctatus of 

 Leach, described and figured by Mr. G. R. Gray in Griffith's 

 Animal Kingdom, was first described by the late Dr. Leach, in 

 the Appendix to Bowdich's Travels. (In " The Entomologist " for 

 July, 1841, I described a species sent from W, Africa by the 

 late Mr. Ridley, under the name of P. Bucephalus ; from an 

 oversight of my own, the subgeneric name of Ceratocoris was 

 omitted, which I now apply to it, the type being C. Bucephalus 

 (Entomologist, p. 136), in the Museum Collection. July, 1842.) 



CoRiPLATUs, White. 



The next insect described seems to me to belong to a genus 

 distinct from any yet characterized, though possibly it might be 

 placed by some autliors in Sciocoris, by others in Empicoris, D'lni- 

 dor, or Dryptocejihalus. I propose for it the generic name above 

 mentioned. 



Head very flat, oblong, in front emarginate, eyes slightly pe- 

 dunculated, having a spine in front, ocelli distant. Beak long, 

 second joint longest. Antennas five-jointed, situated on the 

 underside of head, close to the margin at the base of the spine 

 joints nearly equal in length, first thickest. Thorax broader than 

 long, highest behind, on the forepart in the middle rounded for 

 reception of head, lateral margin, with three lobes, the central 

 thickest and rounded at tip, the other two sharp. Scutellum 

 nearly if not as long as abdomen, not covering hemelytra, at base 

 broad, lateral margins angulato-sinuate, rounded at tip, membra- 

 naceous part of hemelytra apparently with six somewhat forked 

 veins. Abdomen serrated, scarcely broader than hemelytra, much 

 depressed. I only know of one species from South America, 

 which I call 



C. depressus. (Plate VIL fig. 3.) 

 C.Jlavus, nigro-punctatus, antennis pedibusque n/gro-variis. 

 Long. lin. 5^. 

 Hab. in Demerara. In Mus. Brit. 



Yellow, with many impressed black dots, in some places grouped 

 together, giving the insect a greyish appearance. Antennae an- 

 nulated and spotted with black, legs spotted with black, femora 

 at base beneath yellow. 



Dryptocephalus ? (Cephaloplatus,) Perty'i. 

 D. punctalissimus, ferrugineo-luteus, capite bilobo, hemelytrorum 



parte inembranaced, venis maculisqne nigris. 

 Long. lin. 5|. 

 Hab, in Brasilia. In Mus. Brit. 



