HEMIPTERA. 1&7 



Head with a broad longitudinal orange line on each side. Tho- 

 rax with all the margins, and a central longitudinal line, orange- 

 yellow. Scutellum with the apical half, the lateral margins of 

 the basal portion, and a central longitudinal line, orange ; the 

 apical portion with a longitudinal elevated line. Coriaceous por- 

 tion of the elytra narrowly edged with orange towards the base, 

 and sometimes with two or three short transverse lines of the 

 same colour near the outer margin ; the apical margin, and an 

 irregular oblique band, running from the inner apical angle to- 

 wards the outer margin, orange ; membrane pitchy brown, some- 

 what brassy. Body beneath orange yellow, smooth and shining. 

 Breast with an irregular black patch on each side of each seg- 

 ment; mesosternum with a large black patch. Legs black; 

 thighs streaked with yellow. Rostrum black, streaked longitu- 

 dinally with yellow. Antennae black. 



a. Africa? From Mr. Children's Collection. 





Genus 29. HALYS. 



Cimex, p., Fab. Syst. Ent. (1775) # Ent. Syst. (1794). 

 Halys, p., Fab. Syst. Rh. (1803); Am. $ Serv. Hem. (1843); H. 

 Schdff. Wanz. vii. (1844). 



1. HALYS dentata. 



Cimex dentatus, Fab. S. E. 702. 28 (1775) $ E. S. iv. 96. 66 

 (1794); Wolff, Ic. dm. 51. t. 6. fig. 48 (1801). 



Cimex sulcatus, Thunb. Nov. Ins. Sp. 43 (1783). 



Halys dentata, Fab. S. R. 180. 1 (1803); H. Sch. Wanz.v'ii. 60. 

 t. 233. fig. 724 (1844). 



Stoll, Pun. 33. t. 6. fig. 47. 



a. Bombay. Presented by Walter Elliott, Esq. 



b. India. Presented by General Thomas Hardwicke. 



c. N. Bengal. From Lieut. Campbell's Collection. 



d. E. Indies. From Mr. Wooley's Collection. 



2. HALYS variegata. 



Pentatoma variegata, Pal. Beauv. Ins. 82. Hem. pi. 7- fig. 3. 

 Halys variegata, Am. fy Serv. Hem. 109. 1 (1843). 

 a. Gambia. From Mr. Kendall's Collection. 



Genus 30. TRACHYOPS, n. g. 



Head rather longer than broad, with the central lobe as long 

 as the lateral, the apex rounded, and the lateral margins waved. 

 Eyes rather prominent; ocelli small, distant, placed a little be- 

 hind the eyes. Antennae short, not longer than the head and 

 thorax, inserted very little in front of the eyes, of five joints ; 



