214 HEMIPTERA. 



running from the apex of each lateral lobe to the ocellus ; the 

 vertex finely punctured with black. Eyes brown; ocelli red. 

 Thorax pale brown in front, darker behind, thickly and finely 

 punctured with dark brown ; lateral angles prominent, somewhat 

 acute. Scutellum dark brown, thickly and rather strongly punc- 

 tured, with a large spot in each basal angle, a transverse band 

 across the middle, interrupted by a brown longitudinal line, and 

 the apex bright yellow, impunctate ; the transverse band and the 

 basal spots are produced so as to meet on the lateral margins, 

 thus enclosing a large quadrate brown patch at the base of the 

 scutellum. Coriaceous portion of the elytra pale brown, punc- 

 tured with dark brown, with a large yellow, impunctate spot 

 near the apex ; membrane transparent, brownish. Wings trans- 

 parent. Abdomen above reddish brown, opaque; the margins 

 yellow, thickly and finely punctured, with a black spot at the 

 base of each segment. Abdomen beneath yellow, rather thickly 

 punctured on the sides, with some of the punctures black, form- 

 ing an indistinct longitudinal band on each side ; the centre of 

 each segment with a triangular black spot. Breast yellow, rather 

 thickly and finely punctured with brown, and with a large, dull, 

 wrinkled, dark brown spot on each side. Legs yellow, with a 

 few brown points ; thighs and tibiae reddish at the apex ; tarsi 

 brownish, Rostrum yellow, with the tip black. Antennae fer- 

 ruginous. 



a. Columbia. From M. Goudot's Collection. 



10. MORMIDEA debellator. 



Cimex debellator, Fab. S. R. 165. 53 (1803) ; H. Sch. Wanz.ri. 



63. t. 201. fig. 625 (1842). 

 Pentatoma debellator, H. Sch. Wanz. vii. 95 (1844). 



a. Sierra Leone. Presented by the Rev. D. F. Morgan. 



b. W. Africa. Presented by B. Frend, Esq. 



c. W. Africa. From Mr. Eraser's Collection. 



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



11. MORMIDEA hastator. 



Coreus hastator, Fab. E. S. iv. 129. 8 (1794). 

 Cimex gladiator, Fab. S. R. 165. 50 (1803). 

 Cimex jaculator, Fab. S. R. 7 (1803). 



a. Sierra Leone. Presented by the Rev. D. F. Morgan. 



12. MORMIDEA punctata. 



Pentatoma punctata, Pal. Beauv. Ins. 84. Hem. pi. 7- fig. 6. 

 a. Sierra Leone. Presented by the Rev. D. F. Morgan. 



