HEMIPTERA. 24/ 



fascia longitudinal! e punctis fuscis ; rostro brevi, pedum pos- 

 ticorum basin baud attingente. ? . 

 Long. lin. 3. 



a. East Indies. Presented by Capt. Parry. 



36. PENTATOMA Cubrosa, n. s. 



P. fusco-testacea, fusco-punctata ; thorace punctis 2, scutello 

 3 basi, thoracis abdominisque marginibus, albidis; pedibus 

 luteis; antennis testaceis, articulis 2 ultimis, basi exceptis, 

 fuscis. ? . 

 Long. lin. 3J. 



Ovate, brownish testaceous, rather thickly and finely punc- 

 tured with brown. Head with the central lobe as long as the 

 lateral, forming the apex of the head. Eyes black ; ocelli red. 

 Thorax with its lateral margins, and two points on the disc 

 towards the anterior margin, whitish. Scutellum with three 

 whitish points at the base, placed one on each basal angle, and one 

 in the middle. Coriaceous portion of the elytra with the outer 

 margin reddish brown, whitish at the base ; membrane transpa- 

 rent, brownish. Margins of the abdomen pale yellow. Body 

 beneath testaceous, finely punctured with brown. Abdomen with 

 an irregular dark brown longitudinal band down the centre. 

 Breast very thickly punctured with brown ; sternum dark brown. 

 Legs yellow, with a few fine brown points. Rostrum yellow, with 

 the tip black. Antennae whitish testaceous, with the two last 

 joints dark brown, except at the base. 



a. Jamaica. From Mr. Gosse's Collection. 



37. PENTATOMA pilipes, n. s. 



P. ovata, testacea, nigro-punctata ; pedibus testaceis. pilis longis 

 tenuissimis vestitis, femoribus annulo ante apicem nigro ; an- 

 tennarum articulis 1 3 ferrugineis, 4 et 5 nigris. & , 

 Long. lin. 3J. 



Ovate, rather broad, testaceous. Head with the lateral mar- 

 gins and two broad longitudinal lines on the disc black, punc- 

 tured; the apex of the central lobe reddish. Thorax rather 

 strongly, but irregularly and not very thickly punctured on the 

 disc ; a line within the lateral margins, and two spots on the an- 

 terior margin, black, with closer punctures ; the lateral margins 

 impunctate. Scutellum rather thickly punctured with black, 

 with three yellow spots at the base. Coriaceous portion of the 

 elytra thickly and finely punctured with black; membrane 

 brownish, semitransparent. Abdomen beneath testaceous, thickly 

 and finely punctured, with a brown spot in the centre of the base 



