HEMIPTERA. 209 



whitish ; the posterior portion reddish, thickly and finely punc- 

 tured with black ; the lateral spines black. Scutellum pale yellow, 

 thickly and finely punctured with brown, with a row of small 

 whitish points on the basal portion of each lateral margin and 

 across the base close to the posterior margin of the thorax. Co- 

 riaceous portion of the elytra reddish, thickly and finely punc- 

 tured with brown, with a brown spot in the centre of the disc ; 

 membrane transparent, brownish. Margins of the abdomen 

 ochreous. Body beneath pale yellow, thickly and finely punc- 

 tured. Abdomen with a row of minute tubercles across the pos- 

 terior margin of each segment. Legs ochreous, covered with 

 very fine brown points. Rostrum pale yellow, with the extreme 

 tip black. Antennae ferruginous. 



a. Venezuela. From Mr. Dyson's Collection. 



2. DICERJEUS leucostigma, n. s. 



D. supra fuscus vel subferrugineus, fusco-punctatus ; punctis 

 elevatis albis 2 anticis thoracis, 2 basalibus unoque apicali 

 scutelli (interdum obsoletis) unoque in singulo elytro ; corpore 

 subtus luteo, fusco-punctatissimo ; antennis luteis, apice fus- 

 cescentibus. 3 . 

 Long. lin. 4f-5, lat. hum. 3^-3|. 



Above brown, or somewhat ferruginous, thickly and rather 

 finely punctured. Thorax with two minute whitish elevated 

 points on the anterior portion of the disc ; the lateral angles fer- 

 ruginous, very acute and rather slender. Scutellum with a 

 similar point in each basal angle and a third at the apex these 

 are sometimes wanting. Coriaceous portion of the elytra with a 

 similar point on the disc behind the middle ; membrane brownish, 

 semitransparent, with the nervures darker. Margins of the ab- 

 domen yellow. Body beneath yellow, very thickly and finely 

 punctured with brown, with the lateral margins of the abdomen 

 nearly impunctate. Legs and rostrum yellowish ; the latter with 

 the apical joint black. Antennae pale yellow, becoming dusky 

 towards the apex. 



a. Para. Presented by Reginald Graham, Esq. 



b. Para. From Messrs. Wallace and Bates's Collection. 



Genus 7- PROXYS. 



Cimex, p., Fab. Ent. Syst. iv. (1794) $ S. R (1803). 

 Pentatoma, p., Pal. Eeauv. Ins. (1805); H. Sch. Wanz. vii. 



(1844). 



Proxys, Spin. Hem. 325 (1837). 

 Prooxys, Am. 4* Serv. Hem. 139 (1843). 



