38 HEMIPTERA. 



Pachycoris irroratus, Germ. Zeits. i. 99. 36 (1839) ; H. Schaff. 

 Wanz. v. 55. t. 159. fig. 500 (1839). 



3. SYMPHYLUS variegatus. 



Pachycoris variegatus, H. Schaff. Wanz. in. 106. t. 107. fig. 332? 

 (1836) ; Germ. Zeits. i. 93. 22 ? (1839). 

 a. Jamaica. From Mr. Gosse's Collection. 



4. SYMPHYLUS poecilus, n. s. 



5. testaceus, fusco-punctatus, supra fusco- variegatus ; abdomine 

 subtus rufo-punctatus. 



Long. lin. 3i-3J. 



Testaceous, very tbickly and finely punctured with brown, and 

 covered with small bright red spots. Eyes and ocelli red. Thorax 

 with two brownish black patches on the disc, touching the hinder 

 margin. Scutellum with a large irregular dark brown patch on 

 each side, reaching from the base to beyond the middle ; from 

 the inner angles of these patches spring two interrupted black 

 lines, which appear to form two rings meeting in the centre of 

 the apical portion of the scutellum, where there is a slightly 

 raised longitudinal line. Abdomen beneath pale testaceous, 

 with the disc impunctate, the sides covered with large bright 

 red punctures. Breast of the same colour as the abdomen, irre- 

 gularly punctured with brown. Legs and rostrum testaceous, 

 the former with numerous large brown punctures. Antennae 

 with the basal joint testaceous ; second and third pale brown ; 

 third and fourth pitchy black, yellow at the apex. 



Var. j3. Brownish testaceous, with the base of the scutellum 

 and a large bilobed spot near its apex dark brown. Body be- 

 neath as above. 



a. Para. From Messrs. Wallace and Bates's Collections. 



f Posterior margin of thorax produced in a semicircle over the 

 base of the scutellum. 



5. SYMPHYLUS Knochii. 



Pachycoris Knochii, Germ. Zeits. i. 98. 33? (1839). 



a. Brazil. 



b. Honduras. From Mr. Dyson's Collection. 



c. Jamaica. From Mr. Gosse's Collection. 



d. Para. From Messrs. Wallace and Bates's Collection. 



