42 HEMIPTERA. 



2. AGONOSOMA trivittatum. 



Cimcx trivittatus, Panz. Voet Col. iv. 111. 12. t. 47. fig. 12 



(1798). 

 Pachycoris virgatus, Germ. Zeits. i. 102. 42. t. 1. fig. 6 (1839). 



a. British Guiana. Presented by Sir Robert Schomburgk. 



b. Columbia. From M. Goudot's Collection. 



c. Columbia. 



3. AGONOSOMA dichrouni. 



Scutellera dichroa, Perty, Del. 164. pi. 33. fig. 2 (1830). 

 Var. Agonosoma bicolor, Hope, Cat. 12 (1837). 

 Var. Agonosoma Reichei, Spin. Hem. 361 (1837). 

 Pachycoris dichrous, Germ. Zeits. i. 103. 45 (1839). 

 Agonosoma dichroum, Am. fy Serv. Hem. 45. 2 (1843). 



a. Brazil. 



b. Columbia. From M. Goudot's Collection. 



c. Cayenne. From M. Rothery's Collection. 

 Var. jS. A. bicolor, Hope. A. Reichei, Spin. 



d. Para. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



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



4. AGONOSOMA flavipes. 



A. prsecedenti valde aifine, sed differt abdomine pallido, violaceo- 

 marginato ; femoribus flavis ; capitis marginibus nigris. 

 Long. lin. 6. 



Closely resembles the preceding; pale orange yellow, very finely 

 punctured. Head with the lateral margins and the margins of 

 the central lobe black. Eyes black. Thorax with four black 

 spots ; two on the anterior margin meeting the central lines of 

 the head, and two on the disc. Scutellum with four black spots, 

 two at the base and two behind the middle. [These spots vary 

 greatly in size, being sometimes reduced to mere points.] Ab- 

 domen yellow, with a broad violet band, dentated internally down 

 each side near the lateral margin ; the margin itself yellow. 

 Disc of the abdomen with five small brownish spots. Breast va- 

 riegated with violet and yellow, rather thickly and strongly punc- 

 tured. Head beneath violet, with the lateral margins and the 

 centre of the base yellow. Rostrum yellow, with the two apical 

 joints pitchy. Legs yellow, with the outer margin of the tibiae 

 and the tarsi black. Antennae black, with the basal joint yellow. 



a. Columbia. From M. Goudot's Collection. 



b. Columbia. 



