164 HEMIPTERA. 



flavis, punctatis ; scutello elytrisque fusco strigatis ; antennis 

 nigris, articulo basali pallido. . 

 Long. lin. 8J. 



Yellow, shining, punctured and variegated with brown and 

 black. Head with the apices of the lateral lobes punctured ; the 

 margins brown. Eyes and ocelli brownish. Thorax punctured 

 and reticulated with black ; the disc with a large, oval, yellow 

 impunctate patch, which touches the anterior margin, becomes 

 larger towards the middle of the thorax, and tapers posteriorly 

 to a point, which reaches the middle of the posterior margin ; 

 an elongated, yellow impunctate patch occupies the greater por- 

 tion of each antero-lateral margin, and on each side of the cen- 

 tral patch is a large irregular spot of the same colour. Scutellum 

 as long as the abdomen, with the apex lancet-shaped ; deep yel- 

 low, with a dark brown band down the centre to a little beyond 

 the middle, two indistinct, brown punctured lines on each side of 

 this, uniting towards the apex, which however they do not reach, 

 and two short parallel lines of the same colour at the apex. 

 Coriaceous portion of the elytra yellow, with several longitudinal, 

 punctured brown streaks; membrane brownish, transparent. 

 Abdomen beneath yellow, smooth, shining, impunctate, with the 

 stigmata and an interrupted line on each side within the lateral 

 margins, brown. Medipectus with a large dull brown patch on 

 each side. Legs testaceous, with the apices of the tibiae and the 

 tarsi dusky orange; claws tipped with black. Rostrum testa- 

 ceous, with the tip of the apical joint black. Antennae as long 

 as the body, black, with the basal joint brownish testaceous. 

 a. Para. From Messrs. Wallace and Bates's Collection. 



3. ANTITEUCHUS punctiger. 



Dinidor punctiger, Hope, Cat. 25 (1837). 



a. British Guiana. Presented by Sir Robert Schomburgk. 



b. Venezuela. From Mr. Dyson's Collection. 



4. ANTITEUCHUS variolosus. 



Dinidor variolosus, Hope, Cat. 25 (1837). 

 Stoll, Pun. 97. pi. 25. fig. 173. 



a. Venezuela. From Mr. Dyson's Collection. 



5. ANTITEUCHUS melanoleucus. 



Dinidor melanoleucus, Hope, Cat. 24 (1837). 

 Empicoris Renggerii, H. Sch. Wanz. vii. 45. t. 235. fig. 733 

 (1844). 



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



