70 HEMIPTERA. 



Black, shining, tinted with violet, very finely punctured. Tho- 

 rax with the sides dilated anteriorly ; the lateral margins nar- 

 rowly edged with yellow, and a line of the same colour on the 

 centre of the anterior margin. Scutellum narrowly margined 

 with yellow ; the apical half with a narrow submarginal line of 

 the same colour. Base of the elytra black, margined with yel- 

 low. Abdomen brassy black, shining, finely rugose-punctate; 

 with the anus deep black, and the lateral margins yellow. Breast 

 greyish black, finely wrinkled. Legs, rostrum and antennae fer- 

 ruginous. Head with an orange spot at the base of the rostrum, 

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



7. BRACHYPLATYS complanatus. 



Thyreocoris complanatus, Burm. NovaActa Ac. Leop. xvi. Supp. 



289. 8. t. 41. fig. 3 (1834); Germ. Zeits. i. 32. 21 (1839). 

 Plataspis Scipio, White in Gray's Zool. Misc. 80. 7 (1842). 

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



8. BRACHYPLATYS pacifica, n. s. 



B. supra aenea, nitida, impunctata ; capite lato ; abdomine nigro- 

 piceo, nitido ; pectore nigro, opaco ; pedibus testaceis, femori- 

 bus piceis ; antennis testaceis, basi apiceque fuscis. $ $ . 

 Long. lin. 2J-2f . 



Rounded ovate; above brassy, shining, nearly impunctate. 

 Head much broader than long, rounded in front, with the an- 

 terior margin slightly reflexed. Scutellum with a few very fine 

 punctures at the base. Abdomen beneath pitchy black, with a 

 slight brassy tint, very shining, impunctate, faintly wrinkled ; 

 margins pitchy. Breast black, opaque. Thighs pitchy; tibiae 

 and tarsi orange testaceous. Rostrum brownish testaceous, brown 

 towards the base. Antennae orange testaceous, with the two 

 basal joints and the apical one brown. 



a. Oceania. Presented by the Entomological Club. 



b. Vavao. Presented by M. Guerin-Me'neville. 



9. BRACHYPLATYS subaenea. 



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

 Thyreocoris septus, Germ. Zeits. i. 32. 19 (1839). 



a. N. Bengal. From Lieut. Campbell's Collection. 



b. Tenasserim. Presented by Packman, Esq. 



c. Hong Kong. Presented by J. C. Bowring, Esq. 



10. BRACHYPLATYS Vahlii. 



Cimex Vahlii, Fab. E. S. iv. 89. 41 (1794) ; Cog. III. ii. 79. 1. 18. 

 fig. 14 (1801); Wolff, Ic. dm. 96. t. 9. fig. 90 (1802). 



