/8 HEMIPTERA. 



Above griseous, thickly and finely punctured with black, and 

 with numerous small impunctate dots. Head short, truncated 

 at the apex, central lobe as long as the lateral. Thorax with the 

 lateral margins slightly sinuated. Scutellum large, covering 

 about three-fourths of the abdomen, with the apex broad and 

 rounded. Membrane of the elytra pale brown, obscure, with the 

 nervures scarcely darker; apical margin sinuated. Abdomen 

 beneath dark brown, covered with fine hairs, with the disc and 

 the lateral margins blackish. Breast blackish brown, brassy, 

 punctured, with the posterior margins of the segments and a 

 patch at the base of each of the legs pale brown. Intermediate 

 thighs pitchy, clothed with fine short hairs, and with two rows 

 of strong spines on the under side ; tibiae testaceous, with the 

 apex black; tarsi black. Anterior and posterior legs wanting. 

 Rostrum testaceous, with the tip black. Antennae black. 

 a. Congo. Presented by Sir John Richardson, M.D. 



10. ATELOCERA parvula, n. s. 



A. capite breviusculo ; nigro-fusca, punctatissima, maculis parvis 

 albidis undique notata ; capite, thorace scutellique basi linea 

 longitudinali albida ; elytrorum membrana, subhyalina, nigro- 

 venosa ; abdominis marginibus nigris, fulvo maculatis ; pedibus 

 castaneis, femoribus tibiisque apice, tarsisque nigris; rostro 

 nigro-piceo. (Antennae desunt.) 3 . 

 Long. lin. 5. 



a. S. Africa. Presented by the Earl of Derby. 



11. ATELOCERA foveata, n. s. 



A. capite elongate, acuminato, antice emarginato ; supra nigro 

 fusca, punctatissima, maculis parvis albidis undique notata; 

 elytrorum membrana albida, nigro-venosa ; antennis nigris 

 apice fulvo. ? . 

 Long. lin. 8-8. 



Above blackish brown, very thickly and finely punctured, and 

 with numerous, small, impunctate whitish spots. Head very 

 long, narrowed anteriorly, with the apex emarginate, the latera 

 lobes longer than the central ; the lateral margins, and a centra 

 longitudinal line, which is continued indistinctly on the thor 

 and scutellum, yellowish. Scutellum with a large black fove 

 in each basal angle. Membrane of the elytra whitish, opaque 

 with strong black nervures. Margins of the abdomen black 

 banded with orange. Abdomen beneath dark brown, with the 

 base and the central furrow pale brown. Legs and rostrum pitch 

 brown ; thighs with a few spines on the under surface. Antenna 



