18 HEMIPTERA. 



Above livid testaceous, thickly and rather strongly punctured, 

 with the head and the margins of the thorax and scutellum red. 

 Head impimctate, faintly wrinkled ; vertex and basal portion of 

 the central lobe black. Eyes dark brown ; ocelli red. Thorax 

 with a transverse punctured impression on the anterior margin ; 

 the red portion behind this is slightly elevated and impunctate ; 

 lateral angles rounded. Scutellum truncated at apex, slightly 

 raised at base, with a deep pit near each basal angle, and a di- 

 stinctly elevated longitudinal line down the centre. Abdomen 

 beneath red, with the margins and anal apparatus darker and 

 tinged with violet, the whole surface clothed with very short 

 hairs. Breast pitchy, with the antero-lateral margins red. Legs 

 red, with the knees, the apex of the tibiae and the tarsi pitchy. 

 Rostrum reaching the apex of the third ventral segment, red, with 

 the tip black ; labrum black. Antennae black, with the two basal 

 joints and the base of the third bright red. 



a. Philippine Islands. From Mr. Cuming's Collection. 



Genus 8. SCUTELLERA. 



Cimex, p., Fab. E. S. iv. (1794). 



Scutellera, LamJc. Syst. 293 (1801). 



Tetyra, p., Fab. S. R. (1803). 



Scutellera, p., Lamk. Hist. Nat. iii.(1816); Burm.Handb.u.(lS35). 



CaUiphara, Germ.Zeits. i. 122(1839) ; Am.fyServ.Hem. 30(1843). 



1. SCUTELLERA nobilis. 



Cimex nobilis, Fab. E. S. iv. 80. 3 (1794) (nee Linn.); Panz. 



Voet Col. iv. 111. 11. t. 47. fig. 1 (1798) ; Wolff, Ic. dm. 49. 



t. 5. fig. 46 (1801). 



Tetyra nobilis, Fab. S. R. 129. 6 (1803). 

 Scutellera nobilis, Lam. Hist. Nat. iii. 491. 1 (1816); Burm. 



Handb. ii. 395. 1 (1835). 



Tectocoris nobilis, Hahn, Wanz. iii. 24. c. 81. fig. 247 (1835). 

 Tectocoris perplexa, Hope, Cat. 4 & 15 (1837). 

 CaUiphara nobilis, Germ. Zeits. 124. 2 (1839); Am. $ Serv. 



Hem. 30. 1 (1843). 

 Stoll, dm. 8. pi. 1. fig. 1, 20. pi. 4. fig. 22 & 23, & 13. pi. 2. fig. 7. 



a. Bengal. 



b. Bengal. Presented by General Hardwicke. 



c. Bengal. From Lieut. Campbell's Collection. 



d. Bombay. Presented by W. Elliott, Esq. 



e. Pondicherry. Presented by M. Reiche. 



/. Moulmein. From Archdeacon Clerk's Collection. 

 a. East Indies. Presented by F. Walker, Esq. 



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h. India. 



