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  Mr. 
  W. 
  S. 
  Dallas's 
  Descriptions 
  of 
  some 
  

  

  III. 
  Descriptions 
  of 
  some 
  new 
  Species 
  of 
  Hemipterous 
  In- 
  

   sects 
  belonging 
  to 
  the 
  Tribe 
  Scutata. 
  By 
  W. 
  S. 
  Dallas, 
  

   Esq., 
  F.L.S. 
  

  

  [Read 
  2nd 
  February, 
  1852.] 
  

  

  My 
  principal 
  object 
  in 
  the 
  present 
  paper 
  is 
  to 
  publish 
  descriptions 
  

   of 
  various 
  species 
  of 
  Hemiptera, 
  belonging 
  to 
  some 
  of 
  the 
  smaller 
  

   genera 
  proposed 
  or 
  adopted 
  by 
  me 
  in 
  the 
  first 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  Catalogue 
  

   of 
  Hemipterous 
  Insects 
  contained 
  in 
  the 
  Collection 
  of 
  the 
  British 
  

   Museum. 
  

  

  Most 
  of 
  these 
  insects 
  are 
  in 
  my 
  own 
  collection 
  ; 
  for 
  two 
  of 
  them 
  

   I 
  am 
  indebted 
  to 
  the 
  kindness 
  of 
  Mr. 
  West 
  wood, 
  and 
  one 
  is 
  unique 
  

   in 
  the 
  collection 
  of 
  this 
  Society, 
  

  

  Family 
  ASOPID^. 
  

   Genus 
  Oplomus, 
  Spin. 
  

   Oplomus 
  elongatus, 
  n. 
  s. 
  (PI. 
  I. 
  fig, 
  1.) 
  

  

  O. 
  elongatus, 
  ca?ruleus, 
  virescenti-nitens, 
  punctatus; 
  elytrorum 
  

   corio 
  opaco 
  ; 
  abdominis 
  maculis 
  3 
  spinaque 
  basali, 
  femori- 
  

   bus 
  omnibus 
  tibiisque 
  posticis 
  et 
  intermediis 
  fulvis; 
  geniruh's, 
  

   tibiis 
  anticis 
  totis, 
  alterisque 
  apice, 
  tarsis, 
  antennis 
  rostroque 
  

   nigris. 
  $. 
  

  

  Long. 
  lin. 
  5| 
  (m. 
  0.012). 
  

  

  Hab. 
  in 
  Brasilia? 
  In 
  Mr. 
  Westwood's 
  collection. 
  

  

  Very 
  elongate, 
  deep 
  blue, 
  shining, 
  tinged 
  with 
  green. 
  Head, 
  

   above, 
  rather 
  thickly 
  punctured, 
  but 
  with 
  two 
  smooth 
  longitudinal 
  

   bands 
  on 
  the 
  vertex 
  between 
  the 
  ocelli 
  ; 
  beneath 
  thickly 
  and 
  finely 
  

   pi 
  nctured. 
  Eyes 
  brown; 
  ocelli 
  yellow. 
  Antennae 
  black, 
  clothed 
  

   with 
  a 
  pale 
  pubescence 
  ; 
  basal 
  joint 
  tinged 
  with 
  blue. 
  Rostrum 
  

   pitchy 
  black, 
  becoming 
  pitchy 
  towards 
  the 
  apex. 
  Pronotum 
  with 
  

   the 
  lateral 
  margins 
  waved, 
  the 
  lateral 
  angles 
  very 
  slightly 
  promi- 
  

   nent; 
  the 
  surface 
  convex, 
  rather 
  thickly 
  and 
  finely 
  punctured, 
  with 
  

   a 
  narrow 
  smooth 
  line 
  down 
  the 
  centre. 
  Scutellum 
  rather 
  sj)aringly 
  

   and 
  finely 
  punctured 
  at 
  the 
  base; 
  the 
  apical 
  portion 
  with 
  a 
  smooth, 
  

   impunctate, 
  raised 
  line 
  down 
  the 
  middle, 
  on 
  each 
  side 
  of 
  which 
  

   the 
  surface 
  is 
  very 
  thickly 
  and 
  finely 
  punctured 
  ; 
  the 
  lateral 
  mar- 
  

   gins 
  thickly 
  and 
  finely 
  punctured, 
  leaving 
  a 
  nnrrow 
  impunctate 
  space 
  

   on 
  each 
  side 
  between 
  tiie 
  margin 
  and 
  the 
  band 
  of 
  punctures 
  which 
  

   accompanies 
  the 
  central 
  raised 
  line. 
  Breast 
  thickly 
  and 
  finely 
  

   punctured, 
  with 
  a 
  smooth 
  space 
  on 
  each 
  side 
  of 
  the 
  medipectus 
  ; 
  

  

  