of Hemiptera Heteroptera from Japan. 303 



with long semierect pale hairs : tarsi brownish yellow : claws 

 brown, apex black. 



Abdomen above pale chestnut-brown, somewhat shining, 

 junctions of the segments narrowly yellow ; beneath yellow 

 or yellowish white, finely punctured on the sides : spiracles 

 black, exterior to each spiracle is a small black puncture, to 

 which they are connected by a slightly curved channel. Con- 

 nexivum yellow, apex of the segments black. 



Length 3 J lines. 



Closely allied to the following species. 



Elasmucha Signoreti. 



Head yellow, black-punctured. Pronotum yellowish in 

 front, posteriorly with a greenish tinge and black-punctured ; 

 near the anterior margin a stout transverse unpunctured ridge, 

 widening into a triangular form towards the thickened lateral 

 margins ; hinder angles recurved, black ; apex acute. Elytra 

 pale brownish yellow, black-punctured, the punctures coarsest 

 between the first nerve and the anterior margin ; apex of the 

 latter reddish. 



Head yellow : crown with a few black punctures between 

 the ocelli. Face : central and side lobes longitudinally black- 

 punctured, lateral margins and the space between the eyes and 

 the ocelli unpunctured. Antenna? yellow, apex of the last 

 joint brownish. Ocelli red. Rostrum yellow, apex black. 



Thorax. — Pronotum in front to beyond the transverse ridge 

 yellow, next the anterior margin with two or three transverse 

 irregular rows of black punctures, centre of the transverse 

 ridge with four or five punctures ; disk with a greenish 

 tinge, and with short, somewhat remote, curved rows of black 

 punctures ; lateral margins yellow, thickened, with a row of 

 black punctures ; hinder angles recurved, black, base reddish ; 

 apex acute. Scutellum yellow, with a large lunate black 

 patch next the base ; all the margins with a row of black 

 punctures ; disk with a few punctures. Elytra pale brownish 

 yellow, black-punctured, the punctures somewhat in longitu- 

 dinal rows, following the course of the nerves ; between the 

 anterior margin and the first nerve the punctures are deeper 

 and coarser than on the disk ; apex of the anterior margin 

 reddish. Membrane pale, apex of the anterior margin and 

 middle of the posterior with a large fuscous patch ; interior 

 margin narrowly and a portion of the nerves posteriorly fuscous, 

 the latter connected by a transverse zigzag line of the same 

 colour. Prosternuni yellow, finely black-punctured on the 

 sides. Legs yellow. 



