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HEMIPTERA. 



basal angle brown. Wings transparent, iridescent, with brown 

 nervures. Abdomen above violet-brown, shining, finely punc- 

 tured, with the margins testaceous, with a faint, brown, transven 

 line at the base and apex of each segment, close to the suture. 

 Body beneath pale yellow, thickly and finely punctured. Leg 

 pale yellow. Rostrum whitish, with the apical joint black. 

 Antennae with the three basal joints testaceous ; the fourth and 

 fifth black, with their bases white. 



a. China. Presented by G. Tradescant Lay, Esq. 



13. PENT ATOM A trinotata. 

 Pentatoma 3-notata, Hope, Cat. 41 (1837). 



a. Java. From the East India Company's Collection. 



14. PENTATOMA longirostris, n. s. 



P. ovata, supra fusca, punctate : thorace macula media, scutelloque 

 basi et apice, albidis, hoc basi maculis 2 nigris; abdominis 

 marginibus albido nigroque variis ; corpore subtus pedibusqu< 

 pallide luteis ; rostro ultra abdominis medium extenso. $ ? . 

 Long. 3 lin. 5, ? lin. 5. 

 Ovate, above paler or darker brown, thickly and finely punc 

 tured with dark brown or black. Head rather elongated, some 

 what attenuated, but rounded at the apex. Eyes brownish ; 

 ocelli reddish. Thorax with the lateral margins narrowly edged 

 with whitish, the disc with a large yellowish white patch on th 

 centre. Scutellum with the base and apex yellowish white, in 

 punctate; the base with two approximated, black, punctu 

 spots. Membrane of the elytra brownish, semitransparent. Mar 

 gins of the abdomen yellowish white, with a black spot on eac 

 of the sutures. Body beneath pale yellow, shining, finely and 

 sparingly punctured. Breast with five black dots on each side 

 placed three in a row towards the base of the legs, one on th 

 anterior margin of the medipectus and one on the outer ' 



of the postpectus. Legs pale yellow, with a few brown points ; 

 anterior tibiae brownish, and very slightly dilated at the ap 

 Rostrum very long, reaching the middle of the fourth vent 

 segment in the male, the middle of the fifth in the female ; pal< 

 yellow with the last joint black. Antenna? slender, testaceous ; 

 fourth joint black, with the base white ; fifth wanting. 



a. Philippine Islands. From Mr. Cuming's Collection. 



15. PENTATOMA latipes, n. s. 



P. supra fusca, punctata, luteo-adspersa, subtus lutea; scutell< 

 maculis 3 luteo-albidis ; pedibus albidis, geniculis, tibiis apic 

 tarsisque nigris ; tibiis anticis extus dilatatis. c? ? . 

 Long. <? lin. 4, lin. 5. 



