80 HEMIPTEBA. 



punctate, the sides rather strongly punctured. Ventral spin 

 bright orange-red. Breast with numerous scattered coarse punc 

 tures. Legs bright orange-red, with the apical half of all the 

 tibiae and the tarsi blue-black. Rostrum red, with the apex black 

 Antennae black, with the two basal joints red. 



a. Honduras. From Mr. Dyson's Collection. 



7. STIRETRUS anchorage. 



Cimex anchorage, Fab. E. S. iv. 86. 25 (1794). 

 Tetyra anchorage, Fab. S. R. 137. 44 (1803). 

 Tetyra Diana, Fab. S. R. 137. 45 (1803). 

 Asopus Diana, Burm. Handb. ii. 381. 12 (1835). 

 Pentatoma anchorago, Hope, Cat. 42 (1837). 

 Stiretrus Dianas, Germ.Zeits. i. 19. 19 (1839); H, Schdff. Wanz. 

 v. 3. t. 145. fig. 454 (1839). 



a. Georgia. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



b. . 



8. STIRETRUS ornatus, n. s. 



S. praecedenti valde affinis; thoracis latitudine longitudinem duplo 

 superante ; coccineus, sparse punctatus, capite, thoracis mar 

 gine antico, fascia longitudinali, maculisque 2 utrinque, scu- 

 telli maculis 4, elytris, margine excepto, corpore subtus pedi- 

 bus, antennisque nigris ; abdominis margine coccineo, punctis 

 4 nigris. <j> . 

 Long. lin. 4J. 



Head black, scantily punctured, slightly emarginate at the an- 

 terior margin, the lateral lobes slightly wrinkled transversely. 

 Eyes brown ; ocelli red. Thorax more than twice as broad as 

 long, with a small spine on each side of the anterior margin ; red, 

 irregularly and rather strongly punctured, with the anterior mar- 

 gin and a broad longitudinal band on the disc reaching the hinder 

 margin, the lateral angles, and two spots on each side of the 

 central band, of which the anterior is very small, black. Scutel- 

 lum as broad at the base as the posterior margin of the thorax, 

 the sides nearly parallel ; red, with four large, somewhat trian- 

 gular black spots, placed two small ones at the base, and two 

 larger, behind the middle, reaching nearly to the apex ; the black 

 spots punctured, those at the base sparingly but rather strongly, 

 at the apex very finely and rather thickly. Elytra with the co- 

 riaceous portion black, finely punctured, with the outer and api- 

 cal margins red ; membrane brown, with the margin pale, semi- 

 transparent. Margins of the abdomen projecting slightly beyond 

 the elytra on each side ; red, with three black spots. Abdomen 

 beneath brassy black, with the sides punctured, the disc impunc- 

 tate -, the basal spine, and a transverse patch at its base, the la- 



