HEMIPTERA. 215 



MORMIDEA Curtana, n. s. 



M. praecedenti valde affinis, supra fusco-grisea, nigro-punctata ; 

 thorace utrinque acute spinoso, spinis brevibus nigris ; scutello 

 basi puncto utrinque albido ; abdomine supra nigro, basi rufo, 

 marginibus luteis, fusco-variis ; corpore subtus, pedibusque 

 testaceis, fuseo-punctatis, abdomine macula magna basali, alte- 

 raque parva subapicali, fuscis; rostro testaceo, apice nigro; 

 antennis albidis, articulo secundo tertio aequali. $ . 

 Long. lin. 4J. 



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



. Anterior and intermediate thighs with two small spines beneath 

 near the apex. 



14. MORMIDEA armata, n. s. 



M. thorace acute spinoso, supra nigro-fusca, punctata, subtus 

 flava ; pedibus flavis, punctis plurimis nigris ; antennis nigris, 

 articulis basi albidis. ? . 

 Long. lin. 4J-5, lat. hum. 3^. 



Above dark brown or blackish, thickly punctured, with two 

 small whitish points on the anterior portion of the thorax, three 

 similar points at the base, and one at the apex of the scutellum 

 and one on the disc of the coriaceous portion of each elytron, be- 

 hind the middle. Thoracic spines long and acute, black. Mar- 

 gins of the abdomen black, with a spot in the centre, and a line 

 at the base of each segment yellow. Abdomen beneath yellow, 

 finely punctured on the sides, sometimes clouded with brown. 

 Breast yellow, rather thickly and finely punctured. Legs yellow, 

 with numerous black dots ; anterior and intermediate thighs each 

 with two minute black spines beneath near the apex ; tarsi with 

 the apex of each joint black. Rostrum short, not passing the 

 intermediate coxae ; yellow, with the tip blackish. Antennae 

 black, with the inside of the basal joint and the base of the third, 



I^ourth and fifth white. 

 a. Brazil. From Mr. Children's Collection. 



t Thorax with the lateral spines curved forwards ; sometimes with 

 the lateral angles merely prominent and rounded, but always 

 turned in the same direction. 



15. MORMIDEA irrorata. 



Cimex irroratus, H. Sch. Wanz. iv. 19. t. 1 16. fig. 367 (1839). 

 Pentatoma irroratum, H. Sch. Wanz. vii. 94 (1844). 

 a. Mexico. Presented by E. P. Coffin, Esq. 



