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either pieeous suffused with ochraceous, or ochraceous suffused 

 with pieeous, extreme anterior area pieeous, beyond which is 

 a transverse ochraceous line, three abbreviated longitudinal 

 ochraceous lines at base, the lateral margins always black or 

 pieeous ; scutellum black, its central lateral margins, apex, 

 and a central longitudinal line more or less obscurely ochra- 

 ceous ; corium ochraceous, much suffused with pieeous or 

 black ; membrane black ; connexivum black, spotted with 

 ochraceous, the spots bifid above; body beneath and legs 

 black, opaque; anterior and anterior lateral margins and a 

 central fascia to prosternum, a central fascia to mesosternum, 

 a broad central spot to metasternum, and lateral margins of 

 corium as seen beneath, ochraceous ; anterior and intermediate 

 femora (excluding apices), an obscure central annulation to 

 tibiffi, and the second joint of tarsi testaceous. First and 

 fourth joints of antennae subequal in length, second and third 

 joints longer and almost subequal ; pronotum sparingly 

 punctate, with its lateral margins very coarsely serrate for 

 their whole length ; scutellum transversely wrinkled ; corium 

 very sparingly punctate ; anterior and intermediate femora 

 denticulate beneath near apex, posterior femora incrassate, 

 obtusely convexly dilated at about middle of inner margin ; 

 anterior lateral margins of corium blackly granulate. 

 Long., ^ ? , 26-28 mm. 



Division GONOOERARIA. 



Plinachtus trilineatus^ sp. n. 



Head ochraceous, obscurely punctate, with three longitu- 

 dinal black lines — one central, the other two from near base 

 of antennse to ocelli ; antennse with the first, second, and 

 third joints castaneous, fourth pale fuscous, with its base 

 ochraceous ; pronotum ochraceous, thickly brownly punctate, 

 extreme lateral margins and the posterior lateral angles 

 castaneous ; scutellum ochraceous (excluding margins and 

 apex), blackly punctate; clavus stramineous, blackly punc- 

 tate ; corium subroseus, blackly punctate ; membrane dark 

 bronzy brown ; body beneath and legs ochraceous ; a spot on 

 each side of pro-, meso-, and metasterna, and three basal 

 spots on each side of second, third, fourth, and fifth abdominal 

 segments black ; first, third, and fourtli joints of antennai 

 subequal in length, second longest; rostrum reaching the 

 intermediate coxae ; lateral pronotal angles acutely spinous, 

 their apices directed a little forward. 



Long. 17 mm. 



