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longitudinal rows of black punctures. Connexivum above 

 yellow, with a narrow longitudinal black line near the inner 

 margin, widened in the last segment. 



Length 3^ lines. 



Smaller and with the black streaks more decided than in 

 A. acuminata, to which it bears a great prima facie resemblance. 



Genus Plautia, Stal. 

 Plautia Stall 



Green, somewhat shining. Corium, except the anterior 

 margin, red. Abdomen above purple ; underneath (in the $ ) 

 very pale green or greenish white, (in the $ ) thickly punctured 

 with red ; connexivum green, the acute exterior angles of the 

 segments black ; last genital segment depressed in the middle 

 and with two small black spots placed close together. 



Head finely rugulose punctate. Antenna} yellow ; first joint 

 green ; apical half of the third and fourth black ; fifth black, 

 basal third yellow, apex yellowish. Eyes brown, posterior 

 margin greenish or whitish green. Ocelli brown. Rostrum 

 yellow, apex brown ; above the antenniferous tubercle is a 

 short longitudinal black line. 



Thorax. — Pronotum deeply, irregularly, and somewhat 

 coarsely punctured with black, behind the anterior margin 

 more finely and sparingly ; extreme edge of the lateral mar- 

 gins black ; hinder angles posteriorly reddish or red. Scutellum 

 more finely black-punctured than the pronotum ; apex fre- 

 quently whitish. Elytra red, somewhat thickly and irregularly 

 black-punctured. Corium : anterior margin green, except at 

 the apex, with two longitudinal rows of punctures, the inter- 

 mediate space with a few scattered punctures. Membrane 

 fuscous; nerves darker, their bases and the interior angle 

 piceous. Leys green : tarsi yellow. 



Abdomen above purple, slightly metallic, very finely punc- 

 tured ; o underneath pale green or greenish white, very finely 

 punctured. Connexivum green, the acute exterior angles of 

 the segments black ; last genital segment depressed in the 

 middle, and with two small black spots placed close together. 

 $ . The entire upper surface partakes of a reddish tinge, 

 and the underside of the abdomen is red-punctured. 

 Length 4£-5 lines. 



Genus Nezara, Am. et Serv. 

 y Nezara antennata. 

 Green ; not shining, finely crenulate punctate. Head : 



