HEMIPTERA. 69 



2. BRACHYPLATYS flavipes. 



Cimex flavipes, Fab. E. S. iv. 89. 39 (1794). 



Tetyra flavipes, Fab. S. R. 142. 67(1803) ; Schiodte, Kroy. Tijds 



iv. 304. 23 (1842). 



Plataspis flaviceps, Hope, Cat. 17 (1837). 

 Thyreocoris flavipes et flaviceps, Germ. Zeits. i. 32. 20 & 35. 



26 (1839). 



a. Port Essington. From Mr. Gould's Collection. 



3. BRACHYPLATYS Mungo. 



Plataspis Mungo, White in Gray's Zool. Misc. i. 80. 6 (1842). 

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



4. BRACHYPLATYS xanthogramma. 



Plataspis xanthogramma, White in Gray's Zool. Misc. i. 80. 5. 

 (1842). 



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



5. BRACHYPLATYS variegata, n. s. 



B. nigra, nitida, tenue punctata; capite antice, thoracis margini- 

 bus, linea utrinque submarginali, fasciaque interrupta, scutelli 

 abdominisque marginibus, pedibus antennisque flavis. $ . 

 Long. lin. 2J. 



Black, slightly brassy, shining, finely and rather thickly punc- 

 tured. Head yellow, with the base and a transverse line on each 

 side, running from the middle of the central lobe towards the 

 anterior portion of the eye, black ; the anterior margin brown. 

 Thorax with the anterior and lateral margins and a line on each 

 side running from behind the eyes to the posterior angles, yel- 

 low; the disc with a transverse yellow band, punctured with 

 brown, interrupted in the middle and giving off a line of the 

 same colour at each end, which reaches the posterior margin. 

 Scutellum margined with yellow, and with a narrow band of the 

 same colour across the base. Abdomen deep black, shining, finely 

 punctured, margined with yellow, and with two small triangular 

 yellow spots on each side of each segment close to the margin. 

 Breast grey, with the lateral margins yellow. Head beneath 

 yellow, margined anteriorly with brown, and with a black patch 

 on each side within the eyes. Legs, rostrum and antennae red- 

 dish testaceous, the latter with the apical joint dusky. 



a. Sierra Leone. Presented by the Rev. D. F. Morgan. 



6. BRACHYPLATYS sethiops, n. s. 



B. nigra, violaceo-nitida, tenue punctata; thoracis, scutelli, ely- 

 trorum, abdominisque marginibus, flavis ; pedibus antennisque 

 ferugineis. d . 

 Long. lin. 2J. 



