84 HEMIPTERA. 



indistinct central basal spot, orange. Thorax bright orange-red, 

 shining, thickly and rather strongly punctured, with two large, 

 elongated black spots on the disc. Scutellum rather strongly 

 and sparingly punctured at the base, more finely and closely on 

 the apical portion ; bright orange-red, shining, with a violet-black 

 patch on each side about the middle. Elytra with the coriaceous 

 portion bright orange-red, somewhat opaque, rather finely and 

 thickly punctured; the membrane semitransparent, brownish, 

 with a dark brown spot at the apex. Projecting margins of the 

 abdomen black. Abdomen beneath, including the ventral spine 

 orange-yellow, smooth, shining, with the disc impunctate ; the 

 sides with a few scattered punctures ; the basal segment, a large 

 patch on each side, occupying the lateral margins of the second 

 and third and of the base of the fourth segments, a large spot on 

 the disc of the fifth and sixth segments, and a small one in the 

 centre of the base of the fourth, black ; anal apparatus pitchy. 

 Breast purplish black, shining, strongly and irregularly punctured, 

 with the antero-lateral margins and the coxae red. Legs blue- 

 black, with the base of the thighs pitchy. Rostrum and antennae 

 blue-black. 



a. Columbia. From M. Goudot's Collection. 



5. OPLOMUS salamandra. 



Asopus salamandra, Burm. Handb. ii. 381. 11 (1835). 

 a. Columbia. From M. Goudot's Collection. 



6. OPLOMUS pulcher, n. s. 



O. supra viridi-aeneus, nitidus, punctatus; corpore subtus pedi- 

 busque nigris ; thoracis marginibus lateralibus et antico, scutelli 

 dimidio apicali, spina ventrali, abdominis marginibus, macula- 

 que magna basali, coccineis; abdominis marginibus nigro- 

 variegatis. 9 . 

 Long. lin. 6J-/J. 



Head brassy black, shining. Eyes black; ocelli red. Thorax 

 brassy green, smooth, shining, sparingly and coarsely punctured, 

 with the anterior and lateral margins bright red. Scutellum with 

 the base brassy green, shining, punctured like the thorax ; the re- 

 mainder bright red, rather thickly and finely punctured. Elytra 

 with the coriaceous portion brassy green, thickly and rather 

 strongly punctured at the base and along the margins, more 

 sparingly and finely on the disc and towards the apex ; the mem- 

 brane brassy black. Margins of the abdomen variegated with red 

 and brassy black. Abdomen beneath smooth, shining, with the 

 disc impunctate, the sides finely and rather sparingly punctured ; 

 brassy black, with the basal spine and a large patch at its base 



