HEMIPTERA. 251 



fascia transversa, scutelloque apice sanguineis ; abdomine luteo, 

 marginibus punctis nigris. 9 

 Long. lin. 3f . 



An P. antiguensis, Hope, Cat. 36 ? 



Ovate, green, very thickly and rather finely punctured. Head 

 rather elongate. Eyes black ; ocelli brownish. Thorax with a 

 deep crimson band between the lateral angles. Scutellum with 

 the apex deep crimson. Membrane transparent, spotless. Ab- 

 domen above and beneath pale yellow, very thickly and finely 

 punctured ; the lateral margins with a black dot on the apical 

 angle of each segment. Breast greenish, very thickly punctured. 

 Thighs pale green, testaceous at the base ; tibiae and tarsi green ; 

 claws black at the apex. Rostrum very pale, with the tip black. 

 Antennae with the first and second joints, and the base of the 

 third, very pale green, the apex of the third and the fourth pale 

 ferruginous, fifth wanting. 



a. Central America. From Mr. Children's Collection. 



45. PENTATOMA obsoleta, n. s. 



P. praecedenti valde affinis, pallide fulvescens, punctata; mem- 

 brana hyalina, punctis nonnullis obsoletis fuscis ; abdominis 

 marginibus fulvis, punctis 4 nigris ; antennarum articulo se- 

 cundo tertio multo breviore, articulis 2 basalibus totis, tertio, 

 quartoque basi, testaceis, tertio apice, quintoque ferrugineis, 

 quarto basi excepto brunneo. 9 . 

 Long. lin. 5. 



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



46. PENTATOMA custator. 



Cimex custator, Fab. S. R. 164. 43 (1803). 

 Pentatoma custator, H. Sch. Wanz.vii. 96 & 106. t. 247- fig. 771 

 (1844). 



a. St. John's Bluff, E. Florida. Presented by E. Double- 

 day, Esq. 



47. PENTATOMA fimbriata. 



Cimex fimbriatus, Fab. E. S. iv. 121 . 159? (1794) <$ S. R. 1?5. 107 



(1803); H. Sch. Wanz. v. 63. t. 164. fig. 505(1839). 

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

 a. Java. 



48. PENTATOMA viridicollis. 



Pentatoma viridicollis, Hope, Cat. 35? (1837). 



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



