74 HEMIPTERA. 



transparent, with dark brown nervures. Body beneath reddish 

 brown, shining, finely punctured ; the anal apparatus and the 

 centre of the disc of the abdomen black. Legs, antennae and 

 rostrum reddish brown, the latter with the tip pitchy. 

 a. Tenasserim. Presented by Packman, Esq. 



6. PLATASPIS chinensis. 



P. viridi-aenea vel nigro-violacea, nitida, punctata; abdommis 

 marginibus late coccineis ; pedibus antennisque castaneis, 

 harum articulis duobus ultimis nigris. $ 9 . 

 Long. lin. 3| 4. 



Above brassy green or violet, shining, thickly and rather finely 

 punctured. Eyes red. Margins of the elytra black. Abdomen 

 with the disc black, the margins bright red, with the sutures, the ! 

 stigmata and a transverse line on each segment, black. Breast j 

 black. Legs reddish brown, with the base of the thighs pitchy. \ 

 Rostrum reddish brown. Antennae red ; the two apical joints 

 black. 



a. China (Fow-choo-fbo). Presented by G. Tradescant Lay, \ 

 Esq. 



7. PLATASPIS nitens. 



P. aenea, nitidissima, punctulata ; abdomine coccineo, disco I 



nigro ; pedibus antennisque rufo-fulvis, harum articulis duobus 



ultimis nigris. 9 . 



Long. lin. 4. 



Above brassy, very smooth and shining, rather thickly and 

 finely punctured. Head black. Eyes reddish. Abdomen bright 

 red, shining ; with the disc, the anus, sutures and stigmata black. 

 Breast dull black. Legs bright orange-red. Head beneath black, 

 with an orange spot in the centre of the base. Rostrum pitchy 

 red, with the basal joint orange-red. Antennae orange-red, with 

 the two ? apical joints black. 



a. N. India. From Captain Boys' Collection. 



Family 6. OXYNOTID^E. 



Thorax more or less hexagonal. Head produced, its lateral 

 lobes meeting beyond the central. Eyes sessile. Scutellum 

 leaving the whole outer margin of the elytra uncovered ; spinous 

 on its disc. Elytra straight, not folded in at the base of the 

 membrane. Tarsi two-jointed. 



Oxynotus, Auct. 



Oxynotides, Am. fy Serv. Hem. 58 (1843). 



