1-18 HEMIPTERA, 



punctured with brown; abdomen immaculate. Anterior legs 

 testaceous, thickly covered with brown points ; remainder want- 

 ing. Rostrum testaceous, slender, reaching the posterior coxa?. 

 Antennae testaceous, with the three basal joints covered with 

 brown points. 



Genus 8. DRYPTOCEPHALA. 



Dryptocephala, Lap. Hem. 56 (1832); Burm. Handb. ii. 370 



(1835); Am. fy Serv. Hem. 118 (1843). 

 Storthia, Perty, Del. 215 (1834); H. Sell. Wanz.\\\. 41 (1844). 



1. DRYPTOCEPHALA Brullei. 



Dryptocephala Brullei, Lap. Hem. 56. pi. 54. fig. 4 (1832); 



Burm. Handb. ii. 371. 1 (1835); Am. % Serv. Hem. 119. 1 



(1843). 

 Storthia livida, Perty, Del. 169. pi. 33. fig. 13 (1834); H. Sch. 



Wanz. vii. 42. t. 229. fig. 718 (1844). 



a. Brazil. From M. Mornay's Collection. 



b. Brazil. From Mr. Walker's Collection. 



Genus 9. CEPHALOPLATUS. 

 Cephaloplatus, White, Ent. Trans, iii. 90 (1842). 



1. CEPHALOPLATUS Pertyi. 



Dryptocephalus ? (Cephaloplatus) Pertyi, White, Ent. Trans. 

 90 (1842). 

 a. - . 



2. CEPHALOPLATUS australis, n. s. 



C. griseus, nigro-punctatus; abdominis marginibus nigro-variega- 

 tis ; membrana maculis parvis nonnullis fuscis ; pedibus fulvis, 

 nigro-punctatis ; antennis testaceis, articulis, basali excep 

 apice nigris. 9 

 Long. lin. 5^. 



Greyish, punctured with black. Head with the lateral lob 

 not much longer than the central, with a small prominent an 

 on each side in front of the eyes. Eyes black ; ocelli yello 

 Thorax with the anterior angles somewhat acute, scarcely pr< 

 jeering in front beyond the line of the eyes, the lateral margin 

 waved; the dilated anterior angles paler than the rest of the 

 surface, coarsely but not very thickly punctured ; lateral angles 

 rather acute, with a waved line of small warts running from one 

 to the other, the portion posterior to this rather darker than the 



