186 HEMIPTERA. 



longitudinal nervures. Abdomen beneath with a strong central 

 furrow, reaching the fifth segment. Legs rather long ; basal and 

 apical joints of the tarsi about equal. 



a. Margins of the thorax denticulated anteriorly. 



1. AG^EUS tessellatus, n. s. PL VI. fig. 6. 



A. testaceus, fusco-punctulatus ; thorace, scutello basi, abdomi- 

 nisque marginibus nigro-aeneo variegatis ; elytris fascia media 

 nigro-aenea ; antennis, tibiis apice, tarsisque nigris. 9 

 Long. lin. 10. 



Above testaceous, thickly and finely punctured with brown. 

 Eyes pitchy ; ocelli red. Thorax with five brassy black spots on 

 each side of the posterior portion of the disc; namely, three 

 large ones near the middle, placed, two on the posterior margin 

 and one between the apices of these, a small one on the lateral 

 margin near the lateral angle, and one between this and the three 

 large spots. Scutellum with the basal portion brassy black, with 

 a narrow central line, the basal angles, the lateral margins, and 

 an oblique angular line on each side, testaceous. Coriaceous 

 portion of the elytra with a broad, brassy black transverse band 

 about the middle, and an indistinct spot of the same colour to- 

 wards the apex; membrane brown, semitransparent. Wings 

 blackish, with the base vermilion. Back of the abdomen bright 

 red, shining ; margins orange, with a brassy black spot on each 

 suture. Abdomen beneath testaceous, very faintly and sparingly 

 punctured, with a row of round, dark brown spots on each side 

 between the stigmata and the central furrow; stigmata black. 

 Breast more or less thickly and finely punctured with brown ; 

 sternum impunctate; mesosternum with a slight central keel. 

 Legs testaceous, with a streak on the apex of the thighs, a simi- 

 lar streak near the base of the tibiae, the apex of the tibiae and 

 the tarsi, black. Rostrum testaceous, with the tip black. An- 

 tennae black, with the under side of the basal joint testaceous. 

 a. E. Indies. From Archdeacon Clerk's Collection. 



j8. Margins of the thorax smooth. 



2. AG^EUS discolor, n. s. 



A. supra niger, punctatus; capite lineis 2, thoracis scutellique 

 marginibus, lineaque media longitudinali, elytrorum corio apice, 

 corporeque subtus, fulvis; pedibus, rostroque nigris, lineis 

 longitudinalibus luteis ; antennis nigris. <J 9 

 Long <J lin. 8, 9 lin. 9. 



Black, somewhat shining, very thickly and finely punctured. 



