54 HEMIPTERA. 



Pitchy black, somewhat obscure, thickly punctured, sprinkled 

 with yellowish hairs. Head rather long, with a strong spine be- 

 fore each eye ; central lobe as long as the lateral ones, elevated 

 into a tubercle about the middle. Thorax gibbous in front, with 

 a faint furrow across the middle ; the antero-lateral margins re- 

 flexed, rounded ; a long spine, directed forwards, on each side at 

 the anterior margin, and a small one at each lateral angle. Scu- 

 tellum as long as the abdomen, contracted before the middle, 

 somewhat truncated at the apex, with a small pit in each basal 

 angle. Outer margin of the elytra and the edge of the abdomen 

 pitchy red. Legs concolorous ; tarsi ferruginous. Rostrum 

 pitchy red, with the basal joint black. Antennae pitchy. 

 a. East Indies? From Mr. Wooley's Collection. 



9. PODOPS rudis. 



Podops rudis, Germ. Zeits. i. 66. 7 (1839). 



a. New Holland. Presented by the Entomological Club. 



Genus 2. DEROPLOA. 



Deroploa, Westw. Zool Journ. v. 445 (1835) ; Germ. Zeits. i. 68 

 (1839); Am. $ Serv. Hem. 5? (1843). 



I. DEROPLOA parva. 



Deroploa parva, Westw. Zool. Journ. v. 445. t. 22. fig. 6 (1835) ; 

 Germ. Zeits. i. 68. 1 (1839); Am. fy Serv. Hem. 58. 1 (1843). 



a. New Holland. Presented by the Entomological Club. 



b. New Holland. Presented by J. Hunter, Esq. 



Fam. 4. ODONTOSCELID^E. 



Thorax transverse, quadrate. Head with the central lobe 

 reaching the anterior margin. Body ovate, not triangular in 

 front. Eyes sessile. Scutellum not covering any portion of the 

 outer margin of the elytra. Elytra straight, not folded in at the 

 base of the membrane. Tibiae generally spinous. 



Odontoscelis, Burm. Handb. ii. 385 (1835). 



Odontoscelides, Am. # Serv. Hem. 67 (1843). 



Totovuli, p., Amyot, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 2 me ser. iii. (1845). 



TABLE OF GENERA. 



I. Body covered with long soft hairs .... 1. IROCHROTUS. 



II. Body not clothed with long hairs. 



A. Surface opaque, subhirsute 2. ODONTOSCELIS. 



B. Surface shining 3. CORIMEL^BNA. 



