86 HEMIPTERA. 



tered punctures, the disc with a raised longitudinal line. Elytra 

 with the coriaceous portion greenish violet, thickly and rather 

 finely punctured; membrane blackish brown. Body beneath 

 purplish violet, smooth, shining ; the breast with a few coarse 

 punctures ; the abdomen with the disc impunctate, very sparingly 

 and finely punctured towards the sides ; the ventral spine yellow, 

 with a transverse streak of the same colour at its base and an- 

 other on the posterior margin of the third segment of the abdo- 

 men. Legs and rostrum violet, shining. Antennae black. 

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



9. OPLOMUS ventralis, n. s. 



O. nigro-seneus, nitidus, punctatus ; abdomine rufo-fulvo, apice 

 maculisque 9 nigris. ? . 

 Long. lin. 6. 



Above brassy black, shining, punctured. Thorax rather strongly 

 punctured. Scutellum with the disc of the base rather strongly 

 and sparingly punctured, the margins of the base and a trans- 

 verse band before the middle impunctate, the apical portion 

 rather thickly punctured. Elytra with the coriaceous portion 

 rather thickly punctured, the punctures smaller and less nume- 

 rous on the disc. Projecting margins of the abdomen variegated 

 with black and red, the basal portion of each segment being 

 black. Abdomen beneath bright red, with the disc impunctate, 

 the sides sparingly punctured ; the basal segment and the base 

 of the second, four spots on each side on the third and fourth 

 segments (two on the margin and two within the stigmata), a 

 transverse patch on the fifth and sixth segments, and the anal 

 apparatus black. Ventral spine red. Breast black, coarsely and 

 sparingly punctured. Legs and rostrum black. Antennae 

 wanting. 



a. . From Mr. Children's Collection. 



10. OPLOMUS tripustulatus. 



Cimex tripustulatus, Fab. S. R. 1/2. 91 (1803). 

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



Genus 6. JALLA. 



Cimex, p., Linn. Syst. Nat. (1767); Fab. Ent. Syst. iv. (1794) 

 $Syst. Eh. (1803); Fall. Mon. dm. (1807) & Hem. Suec. 

 (1826). 



Jalla, Hahn, Wanz. i. 100 (1831) ; Am. $ Serv. Hem. 85 (1843) ; 

 Kolen. Mel. iv. 35 (1846). 



Pentatoma, p., H. Sch. Norn. Ent. i. (1835). 



Asopus, p., Burm. Handb. ii. (1835). 



