3. MACROPY 



HEMIPTERA. 159 



MACROPYGIUM incisum. 



Cimex incisus, H. Sch. Wanz. iv. 93. 1. 139. fig. 434 (1839). 

 Ochlerus incisus, H. Sch. Wanz. vii. 64 (1844). 

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



Genus 5. SYMPIEZORHINCUS. 

 Sympiezorhincus, Spin. Hem. 284? (1837). 



1. SYMPIEZORHINCUS? punctipes, n. s. PL IV. fig. 2. 



S. supra griseus, fusco-punctatus, abdominis marginibus luteo 

 nigroque variis; subtus ochreus, fusco-punctatus, abdomine 

 nigro-maculato ; pedibus testaceis, fusco-punctatis ; antennis 

 nigris. 9 

 Long. lin. 7. 



Body ovate. Above greyish testaceous, thickly and finely 

 punctured with brown. Head rounded in front, with the apex 

 finely emarginate, the lateral lobes meeting in front of the central 

 lobe, the lateral margins with a strong black spine immediately 

 before the eyes. Thorax transverse, the anterior margin much 

 wider than the base of the head, for the reception of which it is 

 widely emarginate, forming a segment of a circle ; anterior and 

 lateral angles very prominent, the former subspinous; lateral mar- 

 gins emarginate, forming a segment of a circle ; lateral angles 

 with a slight yellow tubercle. Scutellum at least two-thirds the 

 length of the abdomen, broadest at the base, gradually narrowed 

 to about the middle of the abdomen, where it is narrowest, be- 

 coming a little wider to the apex, which is broad and rounded, 

 with the margins a little reflexed ; there is a small pale spot in 

 each basal angle and a pitchy brown patch on each side of the 

 apex. Coriaceous portion of the elytra nearly as long as the 

 scutellum, with the basal portion of the outer margin black, the 

 apical margin pale testaceous ; membrane pale brown, not passing 

 the apex of the abdomen, with eight nervures, of which the four 

 outer ones are united in pairs towards the base. Margins of the 

 abdomen variegated with black and yellow, the centre of each 

 segment being yellow ; these colours appear also on the under 

 side of the abdomen. Body beneath ochreous, thickly and finely 

 punctured with brown. Abdomen with a strong central furrow 

 which reaches the posterior margin of the penultimate segment 

 and is slightly indicated on the apical one ; the centre of the 

 furrow is smooth and impunctate; the stigmata, three round spots, 

 on each side of the third, fourth and fifth segments close to the 

 central furrow, and a larger cordate spot on the apical segment, 

 black. Anal apparatus transverse, moderately developed; the 



