HEMIPTERA. 253 



ocelli brown. Thorax brownish towards the hinder margin, mar- 

 gined anteriorly, with a bright orange spot touching the centre 

 of the anterior margin and a streak of the same colour on each 

 lateral angle. Scutellum with a large orange spot in the centre 

 of the base, continued in a line nearly to the apex ; the apex 

 whitish. Coriaceous portion of the elytra with the disc bright 

 orange, with three more or less confluent patches of black punc- 

 tures, the orange portion impunctate ; the outer margin green, 

 finely punctured; membrane transparent, clouded with brown 

 between the nervures. Wings brown, darkest at the apex. Ab- 

 domen above orange, very thickly and finely punctured, with the 

 margins green. Abdomen beneath with the disc ochreous, the 

 sides green, rather finely and sparingly punctured, the centre of 

 the disc impunctate. Breast bright green, irregularly punctured, 

 with the centre ochreous. Legs green. Rostrum testaceous, 

 with the tip black. Antennas pale green. 



a. New Holland. Presented by Sir John Richardson, M.D. 



52. PENTATOMA variegata. 



Cimex variegatus, Thunb. Nov. Ins. Sp. 48. t. 2. fig. 62 (1783). 

 Pentatoma orbitalis, Hope, Cat. 35 (1837). 

 Cimex facetus, Germ. Silb. Rev. Ent. v. 172. 106 (1837). 

 Stall, Pun. pi. 14. fig. 93. 



a. S. Africa. Presented by the Earl of Derby. 



b. Cape of Good Hope. Presented by the Entomological 



Club. 



c. Cape of Good Hope. From M . Drege's Collection. 



53. PENTATOMA pulchra, n. s. 



P. rotundato-ovata, luteo, fulvo, nigroque variegata, punctata ; 

 capite pallide fulvo, immaculate ; anteimis nigris, articulis 2 

 basalibus fulvis. 9 . 

 Long. lin. 65. 



Rounded ovate. Head rather .large, pale tawny, smooth and 

 impunctate, with the sides narrowly margined. Eyes black; 

 ocelli red. Thorax with six black spots which occupy nearly the 

 whole surface, namely, a rather small oblong transverse spot on 

 each side close to the anterior margin, a larger one on each lateral 

 angle, and two large, somewhat quadrate spots, covering nearly 

 the whole disc and reaching the posterior margin ; the narrow 

 anterior margin, the anterior portion of the lateral margins, a 

 transverse line near the anterior margin, a central longitudinal 

 line, and a longitudinal line on each side running from the trans- 

 verse line to the posterior margin, are yellow ; the central longi- 

 tudinal line has an orange spot close to the anterior margin ; the 



