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punctate, except on anterior transverse callosities and basal 

 margin^ tlie first of which have a central piceous spot and the 

 second has six spots of the same colour, the disk with four 

 fuscous lines, two central and one on each lateral area ; scu- 

 tellum ochraceous, with two central piceous spots, a transverse 

 line of dark punctures near base, and the apical area darkly 

 punctate; coriurn pale ochraceous, subhyaline, the claval 

 suture and longitudinal veins punctate, apical area more or 

 less suffused w^ith piceous; membrane pale fuscous hyaline; 

 connexivum ochraceous, spotted with rosy red ; body beneath 

 and legs ochraceous ; lateral areas of sternum thickly darkly 

 punctate ; abdomen with a submarginal rosy-red, sometimes 

 piceous, fascia. 

 Long. 4^-5 mm. 



Geocoris elegantulus, sp. n. 



Head, pronotum, and sternum ochraceous ; scutellum, 

 hemelytra, and abdomen beneath black ; anterior and pos- 

 terior margins of pronotum, clavus, claval suture, lateral 

 margins of corium, and narrow lateral margins of abdomen 

 beneath creamy white ; legs pale ochraceous, apices of tarsi 

 fuscous ; antennte piceous, first joint (excluding apex) and 

 the whole of the apical joint pale ochraceous, second and 

 fourth joints subequal in length ; eyes carmine-red, directed 

 backward to about one third the length of pronotum ; pro- 

 notum coarsely punctate behind the anterior and before the 

 posterior margin ; scutellum finely punctate ; clavus and a 

 submarginal line to corium coarsely punctate; body above 

 sparingly, finely, longly pilose. 



Long. '6 mm. 



Subfam. ApHANiNM, 

 Pamera picturatus, sp. n. 



Black; first and second joints of antenna?, femora, a sub- 

 apical annulation to anterior and intermediate tibiae, and 

 basal margin of pronotum testaceous red ; corium ochraceous 

 with the subapical area creamy white, a middle maro-inal 

 line, an interior marginal line to the white area, and the 

 apical angle indigo-black; membrane indigo-black, the apex 

 broadly dull ochraceous ; abdomen beneath with a central 

 creamy-white transverse fascia ; second joint of antennaj 

 much longer than third and subequal to fourth ; anterior lobe 

 of pronotum elongate, globose, slightly shorter than head and 

 at least half as long again as posterior lobe ; corium finely 



