EURYCASTRID^E. 



TETYRA NIGRA, Fab. S. R. 136, 39 (1803). 



CIMEX MAURUS, Wolff, Ic. Cim. 135, t. 13, fig. 129 b (1804). 



EURYGASTER HoTTENTOTTUS, Lap. Hem. 69 (1832). 



BELLOCORIS MAURUS, Hahn, Wanz. ii, 44, t. 45, fig. 139 (1834). 

 EURYGASTER HOTTENTOTTUS, Am. et Serv. Hem. 53, 1 (1843) ; Fieb. 



Europ. Hem. 369, 2 (1861). 

 HOTTENTOTA, Kolen. Mel. Ent. iv, 12, 131 (1846). 



Very broad throughout, slightly shining. Varies in colour from 

 brown-ochreous to black, finely punctured all over, still finer on 

 the scutellum, the punctures either concolorous or black. 



Head wide ; Face ; the central lobe not so long as the side lobes, 

 which meet in front and enclose it. 



Thorax. Pronotum; the sides gently rounded, at the hinder 

 angles very much rounded ; on the 1st third of the disk a delicate 

 transverse line which does not reach the sides, before this line 

 and towards its ends are usually two, nearly smooth, angulated 

 spaces : in some specimens these latter characters are not present. 

 Scut ellum ; the raised basal portion crenate-punctate ; behind this 

 is the central keel, broad and dwarf, but distinct, ending at about 

 f rds of the length of the scutellum, the disk sloping thence roof- like 

 (not convex) to the sides. 



Abdomen. Connexivum rather strongly punctured. 



Length, 6 lines. 



Bare : a single specimen, captured casually by Mr. Ernest Adams, 

 is of the brown-ochreous type ; the antennae yellow, with the 4th 

 joint piceous towards the apex, and the 5th joint black, except the 

 base, which is narrowly yellow ; the base of the pronotum is narrowly 

 black, the colour curving upwards at the junction of the hinder and 

 posterior margins, widening and forming two broad, out-curving 

 bands, which suddenly stop before they reach the centre of the disk ; 

 exterior to these, within each hinder angle, is a distinct black spot ; 

 there is a similar spot on the base of the Corium, and on its sides 

 two black lines. Connexivtim with indistinct dark spots. 



This species is at once distinguished from E. maurus by its greater 

 size, and by the central lobe of the face not reaching the anterior 

 margin. 



