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* Colour black, more or less variegated with red or yellow. 



1. EYSARCORIS decoratus. 



Eysarcoris decoratus, Hahn, Wanz. ii. 117, t. 65. fig. 198 (1834). 

 Pentatoma decoratum, H. Sch. Wanz. vii. 96 (1844). 

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



2. EYSARCORIS conspicillaris, n. s. 



E. ovatus, niger, punctatus, aeneo-subnitidus ; thorace linea 

 transversa rubra, inter humeros extensa, medio dilatata in ma- 

 culis 2 ocellatis ; scutello apice margine tenuissimo albido ; ab- 

 dominis marginibus luteis. ? . 

 Long. lin. 3J. 



Black, shining, above slightly brassy and thickly punctured. 

 Thorax with the lateral margins narrowly edged with yellow and 

 with a narrow central line of the same colour ; the disc with two 

 large, impunctate red spots, ocellated with black, and connected 

 with each other and with the lateral angles by a red transverse 

 line; all the red portion is slightly elevated and irapunctate. 

 Scutellum narrowly edged with yellowish white at the apex. Co- 

 riaceous portion of the elytra with the base of the outer margin 

 yellow ; membrane black. Body beneath black, shining. Ab- 

 domen finely and sparingly punctured on the sides, the disc im- 

 punctate ; the margins pale yellow, crenated internally. Breast 

 thickly punctured. Legs, rostrum and antennae black (the two 

 apical joints of the latter wanting). 



a. California. From Dr. Hartweg's Collection. 



3. EYSARCORIS carnifex. 



Cimex carnifex, Fab. E. S. Supp. 535. 162 (1798) S. R. 177- 

 113 (1803); Coqb. III. Ic. ii. t. 19. fig. 3 (1801). 



Eysarcoris carnifex, Hahn, Wanz. ii. 117. t. 65. fig. 197 (1834). 



Pentatoma carnifex, Kirby, Fauna Bor. Am. Ins. 275. 1 (1837); 

 H. Sch. Wanz. vii. 93 (1844). 



a. N. America. From Lieut. Redman's Collection. 



b. N. America. Presented by the Entomological Club. 



c. Trenton Falls, New York, Presented by E. Doubleday, 



Esq. 



4. EYSARCORIS ? natalensis, n. s. 



E. supra niger, nitidus, punctatus ; capite, abdominis marginibus, 

 corpore subtus, pech'busque rufo-fulvis ; thorace fascia trans- 

 versa arcuata, scutello marginibus fasciaque transversa media, 

 luteo-albidis. <J . 

 Long. lin. 3. 



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