4 Description of a new Hemipterous Insect. 



abdomen banded with yellow and black. Abdomen beneath 

 smooth, impunctate, yellow; a spot on each side of each segment 

 within the stigmata, and another on the lateral margin, black. 

 Head beneath, breast and rostrum testaceous; the apex of the 

 latter pitchy. Legs dusky tesiaceous, the thighs punctured with 

 pale brown. Antennae with the basal joint dusky testaceous, 

 second black, pale at the base, third and fourth black, the basal 

 portion of the latter yellowish white. 



II. Notice of some Hemiptera from Boutan, in the Collection 

 of the Hon. East India Company. By W. S. Dallas, 

 Esq., F.L.S. 



[Read 1st October, 1849.] 



In a former notice (Vol. V. p. ISO), under the above title, I laid 

 before the Society a list of some species of Scutelleridce and Pen- 

 tatomidce, from Boutan, contained in the Museum of the East 

 India Company. Although these were not very numerous, the 

 Collection is still more scantily furnished with examples of the 

 other divisions of Hemiptera, there being but twenty species in all, 

 including two belonging to the Homopterous family Cercopidce. 



Of the eighteen Heteropterous species, ten belong to the 

 Coreidce ; namely, Dcreptcryx Hardwickii, White; two species of 

 the genus Acanonicus, Westw. {Dalader, Am. & Serv.), of which 

 one appears to be the A. rubiginosus, Hope, whilst the other is 

 most probably a variety of the Javanese Dalader rotundicosta, 

 Am. & Serv. ; it is rather smaller, and has the sides of the thorax 

 and abdomen and the third joint of the antennae less dilated than 

 that species. Other described species are, Homoeocerus biguttatus, 

 Hope ; Gonocerus calumniator, Fab. ; and Mictis Tragus, Fab. 

 Two other species, also belonging to the genus Mictis, I have not 

 been able to determine satisfactorily. 



The remaining two species of Coreidce appear to be decidedly 

 nondescript. One belongs to the genus Nematoptus, — I have called 

 it — 



Sp. 1. Nematopus serripes. (PI. II. fig. 2.) 



N. rufo-fuscus, punctatissimus; capite, thorace, scutello, elytro- 

 rumque membrana nigro-aeneis ; femoribus posticis elongatis, 



