HEMIPTERA. 71 



Tetyra Vahlii, Fab. S. R. 142. 69 (1803). 



Scutellera papua, Guer. Voy. Coq. Zoo/, ii. 157. Ail. pi. 2. fig. 6? 



(1830). 



Thyreocoris silphoides. Burm. Handb. ii. 384. 3 (1835) [nee Fab.]. 

 Thyreocoris Vahlii, Germ. Zeits. i. 33. 23 (1839); H. Schaff. 



Wanz. v. 31 & 33 (1839). 



Thyreocoris papua, Germ. Zeits. i. 35. 29? (1839). 

 Plataspis Vahlii, Am. $ Serv. Hem. 64. 2 (1843). 

 a. Manilla. Presented by M. Audinet Serville. 



11. BRACHYPLATYS nigriventris. 



Plataspis nigriventris, Hope, Cat. 18 (1837) ; Westw. Mag. Nat. 



Hist. n. s. ii. 30. fig. 3. (1838) ; Am. # Serv.Hem. 64. 1 (1843). 

 Thyreocoris silphoides, H. Schaff. Wanz. iv. 83. t. 134. fig. 415 



(1839). 

 Thyreocoris nigriventris, Germ. Zeits. i. 34. 25 (1839) ; H. Schaff. 



Wanz. v. 31 (1839). 



a. Java. Presented by M. Audinet Serville. 



b. Java. From Mr. Melly's Collection. 



c. Java. From the East India Company's Collection. 



d. Java. 



12. BRACHYPLATYS aenea, n. s. 



B. senea, nitida, punctata ; pectore, pedibus antennisque nigris. 9 . 

 Long. lin. 3J. 



Brassy, shining, thickly and rather finely punctured. Abdomen 

 entirely brassy, smooth, shining, slightly wrinkled, and with a 

 transverse line of fine punctures across the base of each segment, 

 close to the suture. Breast black, opaque, wrinkled. Legs 

 black, shining, with the base of the thighs and the tarsi pitchy. 

 Rostrum pitchy, with the apex of the third joint yellowish orange. 

 Antennae pitchy black, with the articulations testaceous. 



a. Java. From the Hon. East India Company's Collection. 



13. BRACHYPLATYS silphoides. 



Cimex silphoides, Fab. E. S. iv. 86. 24 (1794). 



Tetyra silphoides, Fab. S. R. 141. 62 (1803); Schib'dte, Kroy. 



Tijds. iv. 301. 20 (1842). 

 Thyreocoris silphoides, Germ. Zeits. i. 34. 24 (1839). 



a. China (Fow-choo-foo). Presented by G. Tradescant 

 Lay, Esq. 



Genus 5. HETEROCRATES. 

 Heterocrates, Am. 8f Serv. Hem. 62 (1843). 



