Rhynchota collected in Japan. 441 



ochraceous, the costal margin broadly ochraceous (nar- 

 rowest at base) ; membrane pale hyaline, with an 

 olivaceous tinge ; body beneath black, the abdomen 

 sometimes somewhat castaneous towards apex ; legs 

 pitchy castaneous, the tarsi more or less ochraceous ; 

 antennae with the 1st joint castaneous, its base and apex 

 narrowly ochraceous ; 2nd joint black, with its extreme 

 base and apex a little paler ; 3rd pitchy, with the apex 

 ochraceous ; 4th castaneous, its apex paler (in a second 

 specimen all the joints are castaneous). The pronotuni 

 has the reflexed lateral margins somewhat ochraceous, 

 its anterior area somewhat gibbous and shining, the 

 posterior area strongly and rugosely punctate, and with 

 a few scattered punctures at lateral and anterior margins ; 

 scutellum coarsely punctate, the disk rugulose ; clavus 

 and corium coarsely and longitudinally punctate ; sternum 

 coarsely punctate ; posterior and intermediate tibiae 

 strongly setose ; anterior femora with two slender spines 

 beneath near apex. Long. 41 — 5 mm. 



Hab. Yokohama, Nikko, Nagasaki. 



Var. pallescens. 



Differing from typical forms of the species by its 

 smaller size, and by the 1st joint of the antennae and legs 

 being entirely ochraceous ; abdomen beneath castaneous. 

 Long. 4 mm. 



Hab. Nagasaki. 



A single specimen of this variety was brought home 

 by Mr. Lewis, in which I can find no structural characters 

 to specifically separate it from the species I have described 

 above. 



Ectrychotes delibutus, n. s. (PI. XX., fig. 12). 



Head, antennae, anterior lobe of pronotum, scutellum, 

 body beneath, and legs, black ; posterior lobe of pronotum 

 red, with the incisures black, and in some specimens the 

 whole disk is pitchy ; corium black, with the lateral 

 margins broadly reddish, widened at base, and either 

 attenuated or in some specimens slightly broadened at 

 apex ; membrane black ; connexivum above and beneath 

 black, with subquadrate red spots at segmental incisures ; 

 in the female its apex is black ; abdomen beneath with 

 a central segmental row of transverse red spots, which in 



