176 HEMIPTERA. 



acute spinoso ; scutello maculis 2 baseos fulvis, apice flavo ; 

 antennis nigris ; abdominis marginibus flavo nigroque variis. $ . 

 Long. lin. 5|-6. 



Above pale brown, thickly and rather strongly punctured. 

 Head with the lateral lobes blackish. Thorax with the lateral 

 margins narrowly edged with yellow, the lateral angles produced 

 into acute black spines. A more or less distinct dull orange line 

 runs from the apex of the head to that of the scutellum ; base of 

 the scutellum with a bright orange spot in each angle, apex 

 bright yellow. Margins of the abdomen bright orange yellow, 

 with a black band on each of the sutures. Body beneath yellow, 

 smooth, shining ; the sides very finely and sparingly punctured 

 with brown. Legs pale brown, with the tarsi black. Antennae 

 black. Rostrum brownish, with the base testaceous; the tip 

 black. 



a. New Holland. Presented by Capt. Grey. 



b. New Holland, N.E. Coast. From Mr. Dring's Collection. 



t Lateral lobes of the head convergent, but not meeting, rounded 

 externally, pointed internally. Antennas of four joints ; 

 basal joint stoutest, remainder tapering to the apex ; second 

 joint longest, third about as long as the first, fourth a little 

 shorter. Lateral margins of the thorax slightly denticulated. 

 Ventral furrow wanting. Membrane of the elytra dark, 

 with pale nervures. 



3. PCECILOTOMA grandicornis. PI. VI. fig. 2. 



Atelocerus grandicornis, Erichs. Arch, fur Naturg. viii. 278. 261 

 (1842). 



a. Swan River. Presented by Sir John Richardson, M.D. 



b. New Holland. Presented by Sir John Richardson, M.D. 



Genus 21. ATELOCERA. 



Pentatoma, p., Pal. Eeauv. Ins. (1805). 



Atelocera, Lap. Hem. 63 (1832); Am. Sf Serv. Hem. 103 (1843). 



Atelocerus, Eurm. Handb. ii. 361 (1835) ; H. Sch. Wanz. vii. 49 



(1844). 



1. ATELOCERA armata. 



Atelocera armata, Lap. Hem. 63. pi. 55. fig. 2 (1832); Am. $ 



Serv. Hem. 104. 1 (1843). 

 Atelocerus armatus, Eurm. Handb. ii. 362. 1 (1835) ; H. Sch. 



Wanz. vii. 51 & 52. t. 232. fig. 720 (1844). 

 a. Senegal. ^Presented by M. Percheron. 



