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HEMIPTERA. 



spots of the same colour across the base. Elytra with the coria- 

 ceous portion more thickly and finely punctured than the rest of 

 the body ; the membrane brownish, semitransparent. Margins 

 of the abdomen, both above and beneath, variegated with brown 

 and orange, the segments being brown at base and apex, orange 

 in the middle ; in dark specimens the margins are nearly black, 

 with a few indistinct yellow spots. Body beneath testaceous or 

 orange (in dark specimens brownish), more or less punctured and 

 spotted with brown. Legs testaceous, or reddish, with the knees, 

 the apices of the tibiae, and the last joint of the tarsi, brown or 

 black. [In pale specimens the dark markings of the legs are very 

 indistinct.] Rostrum very thick, brown, with the basal joint tes- 

 taceous. Antennae black ; the two apical joints orange at base 

 and apex. 



The colour varies greatly according to the extent of the con- 

 fluence of the brown punctures. Of the four specimens hi the 

 Collection, two are males and two females; the latter are the 

 darkest in colour. 



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



b, Mexico. Presented by E. P. Coffin, Esq. 



8. CANTHECONA ? armiger. 



Asopus armiger, H. Sch. Wanz. vii. 113 & 119. t. 225. fig. 711 

 (1844). 



a. . Presented by General Hardwicke. 



b. Sierra Leone. Presented by the Rev. D. F. Morgan. 



9. CANTHECONA grisea, n. s. 



C. grisea, fusco-punctata; thorace antice nigricante, angulis la- 



teralibus spinosis, spinis nigris, apice emarginatis ; abdomine 



fascia longitudinali nigra. 



Long. lin. 7- 



Above grey, thickly punctured with brown. Head black, very 

 thickly punctured, with the vertex greyish. Eyes brown ; ocelli 

 red. Thorax with the antero-lateral margins nearly straight, 

 denticulated, the lateral angles produced into strong black spines, 

 directed slightly backwards, and emarginate at the apex; the 

 anterior portion of the thorax is blackish, clouded with grey, and 

 with two small whitish warts on the disc, close to the anterior 

 impressions. Membrane of the elytra brownish, semitransparent. 

 Margins of the abdomen black, very thickly punctured. Body 

 beneath greyish testaceous, thickly punctured. Abdomen with 

 a strong black band down the centre. Breast with three orange 

 spots on each side, and a large black spot on the mesosternum. 



