HEMIPTERA. 203 



Above pale yellowish brown, very thickly and finely punctured 

 with brown, with the head and the anterior portion of the thorax 

 ochreous. Head rather long and narrow, rounded at the apex. 

 Thorax with the lateral margins rather distantly, but very di- 

 stinctly, denticulated; the lateral angles produced into strong 

 spines, which are somewhat truncated obliquely at the apex, with 

 the outer angles acute ; the posterior portion of the apex of the 

 spine is black. Scutellum with the apex very narrow, and tipped 

 with yellow. Membrane of the elytra semitransparent, brown- 

 ish. Wings transparent, with the nervures brown. Abdomen 

 above pale yellowish brown, with the margins concolorous. Body 

 beneath ochreous, thickly and finely punctured with brown. 

 Legs pale yellow, with numerous brown points. Rostrum of the 

 same colour, with the tip black. Antennae yellowish white, with 

 the second joint a good deal shorter than the third ; fourth and 

 fifth wanting. 

 a. . 



4. EUSCHISTUS convergens. 



Cimex convergens, H. Sch. Wanz. vi. 94. t. 211. fig. 665 (1842). 

 Pentatoma convergens, Id. vii. 95 (1844). 



a. Brazil. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



5. EUSCHISTUS apicalis, n. s. 



E. supra griseus, nigro-punctatus, et punctis parvis elevatis palli- 

 dioribus sparsus ; humeris valde spinosis, spinis nigris ; scutelli 

 apice flavo ; corpore subtus, pedibusque fulvis ; antennis fer- 

 rugineis. ? . 

 Long. lin. 5, lat. hum. 4. 



Above griseous, rather thickly and finely punctured with black, 

 and with numerous slightly elevated, paler spots on the thorax, 

 scutellum, and coriaceous portion of the elytra. Head rather 

 long, with the central lobe longer than the lateral. Thorax with 

 four small black spots placed in a transverse line on the anterior 

 portion of the disc ; the lateral margins finely crenulato-denti- 

 culated; the lateral angles produced into strong, rather acute, 

 black spines, which are directed forwards. Scutellum with the 

 tip yellow. Membrane of the elytra semitransparent, brownish, 

 with the nervures darker. Body beneath fulvous, thickly and 

 finely punctured with brown. Abdomen with a blackish line 

 across each of the sutures, a black spot on each side of the base 

 of each segment on the lateral margins, and a short, black, longi- 

 tudinal line on the centre of the apical segment. Breast with 

 four black points on each side. Legs fulvous, with the tarsi 

 rather darker. Rostrum pale fulvous with the tip black. An- 



