new Species of Hemiptera-IIeteroptera. 135 



with a purplish-red basal patch. Corium with a large spot 

 near inner basal margin, connected with a broad lateral (not 

 extending to base) and apical margin, purplish red, con- 

 taining some darker spots ; membrane sparingly but promi- 

 nently spotted with black ; connexivum marked with linear 

 black spots. Body beneath and legs unicolorous. 



Long. 15 millim.; lat. pronot. angl. 9 millim. 



Hab. Delagoa Bay (Junod). 



This extraordinary Hemipteron, of which I was allowed to 

 abstract a single specimen in the possession of the Rev. H. A. 

 Junod, when visiting Delagoa Bay in 1895, was generically 

 described by Karsch in 1892, the genus being founded on a 

 West-African specimen, S.kieroglyphicus (Berl. ent. Zeitschr. 

 xxxvii. p. 484, fig. 2). 



Coreidse. 

 Bardistus superbus, sp. n. 



Head black, with a central ochraceous fascia; ocelli red ; 

 antennas black. Pronotum bright ochraceous, with three 

 broad central fascia}, the lateral and humeral margins black. 

 Scutellum bright ochraceous, with a broad central black 

 fascia, narrowed posteriorly. Corium piceous, with the veins 

 dull ochraceous, membrane shining cupreous. Connexivum 

 above and beneath black, with large red spots, one on each 

 segment. Body beneath and legs black ; femora annulated 

 with red near apex ; lateral and basal margins and a streak 

 at anterior margin of presternum, two spots on each lateral 

 area of meso- and metasternum, and the costal bases pale 

 ochraceous. 



Antenna? with the fourth joint longest, second a little 

 shorter than the first, longer than the third. Lateral and 

 humeral margins of the pronotum strongly crenulated, the 

 apex of the posterior angles with a short but distinct spine ; 

 the pronotum is subvugulose and tessellate, with coarse punc- 

 tures. Scutellum transversely rugulose. Corium coarsely 

 punctate. 



Long. 30 millim. 



Hab. Costa Rica, Guaitil de Pirris (Pacific coast). 



This beautiful species is allied in structure to B. eremita, 

 Stal. 



