HEMIPTERA. 97 



spots on each side near the anterior margin. Membrane of the 

 elytra brownish, transparent, with the nervures darker at the 

 apex. Margins of the abdomen variegated with orange and 

 black, the base and apex of each segment being black. Body 

 beneath bright orange, smooth, shining; abdomen with the 

 centre impunctate, the sides punctured with reddish brown; 

 basal spine passing the posterior coxae. Breast rather thickly 

 and finely punctured, with the centre of the mesosternum 

 smooth. Legs orange ; thighs punctured with brown ; tarsi fer- 

 ruginous. Rostrum testaceous, with the apical joint brownish, 

 black at the apex. Antennae ferruginous. 



a. Trenton Falls. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



4. ARMA tincta, n. s. 



A. supra grisea, fusco-punctata, subtus lutea, nitida, impunc- 

 tata; abdominis marginibus testaceis, immaculatis; antennis 

 breviusculis, ferrugineis, apice subincrassatis. ? . 

 Long. lin. 5J. 



Above yellowish grey, thickly punctured with brown. Thorax 

 with the antero-lateral margins denticulated, testaceous, impunc- 

 tate; the lateral angles produced into acute reddish spines. 

 Scutellum one-third longer than the width of its base, testaceous. 

 Coriaceous portion of the elytra tinged with red on the outer 

 and apical margins, and with an oblique reddish band running 

 from a little behind the middle of the outer margin to the inner 

 apical angle ; all the margins of the under side of the elytra, and 

 a large patch on the apex beneath bright crimson. Membrane 

 i brownish, semitransparent, darker towards the base, and with a 

 small nebulous brown spot at the apex. Wings brownish. Mar- 

 gins of the abdomen testaceous. Abdomenbeneath yellow, shining, 

 impunctate, with the sides slightly rugose ; anal apparatus tinged 

 with crimson. Ventral spine very long, passing the intermediate 

 ; coxae. Breast, legs and rostrum concolorous with the abdomen ; 

 breast somewhat rugose-punctate; thighs and tibiae sprinkled 

 with small black punctures, tarsi brownish at the apex. An- 

 tennae ferruginous, rather short, thick, thickened towards the 

 apex, very little longer than the head and thorax together. 

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



o. ARMA grisea. 



Asopus griseus, Burm. Nova Act a Ac. Leop. xvi. Supp. 293. 15 

 (1834). 



a. Sandwich Islands. Presented by Capt. Beechey. 



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