TRANSACTIONS 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



LONDON. 



I. Description of a new Hemipterous Insect, from Boutan, 

 East Indies, forming the Type of a new Genus. By 

 W. S. Dallas, Esq., F.L.S. 



[Read 7th May, 1849.] 



I had the pleasure of laying before the Society, at its February 

 meeting, a notice of some species of Hemiplera, from Boutan, 

 belonging to the Museum of the East India Company. The 

 insect which I have now to describe is contained in the same col- 

 lection, and perhaps should have been brought forward at the 

 same time as the others, but the singularity of its structure 

 induced me to consider it worthy of a separate notice. It is 

 indeed one of those species to which it is difficult to assign any 

 exact position in a systematic arrangement. In the mass of its 

 characters it appears to agree with the Pentatomidce, but the form 

 of the head approaches very closely to the Coreid type, although 

 the general structure of the other parts of the body will hardly 

 allow it to rank among the members of the family Coreidce. 



The antennae in the specimens before me are unfortunately 

 mutilated, only one of them possessing four joints ; but I have 

 little hesitation in regarding the antennae as five-jointed, the pit 

 at the apex of the fourth joint, for the reception of the base of the 

 fifth, being quite distinct. 



vol. i. — n. s. b 



