254 HEMIPTERA. 



posterior portion of the disc, with the exception of the cem 

 yellow line, is rather strongly, but not very thickly punctured, with 

 the punctures black on the lateral longitudinal yellow lines, and 

 there is a line of five or six fine black punctures on the yellow 

 portion of the lateral margins close to the edge. Scutellum yel- 

 low, orange towards the base and at the apex, with a narrow trans- 

 verse black band interrupted in the middle, at the base, and a large, 

 somewhat bifid, pitchy black patch occupying nearly the whole of 

 the disc ; the basal portion smooth and impunctate, the disc rather 

 strongly punctured, the punctures becoming finer and closer to- 

 wards the apex, which is very finely and thickly punctured, the 

 lateral margins punctured with black. Coriaceous portion of the 

 elytra orange, with the inner portion yellow ; thickly and rather 

 strongly punctured towards the base, more finely towards the apex, 

 with an impunctate space on the disc behind the middle ; with a 

 large patch, posteriorly deeply emarginate, on the disc about the 

 middle, and the apical margin pitchy black; membrane dark brown; 

 wings brown, semitransparent, with the apex darker. Abdomen 

 above red, very thickly and finely punctured, with the margins 

 yellow ; the margins of the second and of the base of the third 

 segments are black. Body beneath pale yellow, smooth, and 

 shining. Abdomen impunctate, with a large black spot on each 

 side of each segment except the last, which has a large square 

 spot of the same colour in the centre ; the lateral margins of the 

 second segment are black. Breast with a line of fine blackish 

 punctures within the margins of each segment and with two rows 

 of large black spots on each side, of w r hich the inner row consists 

 of three spots, one in each segment, the outer of four, of which 

 the fourth spot is placed close to the posterior angle of the post- 

 pectus. Legs orange, with the base of the thighs testaceous, and 

 with a more or less distinct brown or blackish ring near the apex 

 of the thighs. Rostrum brown, with the apex black and the basal 

 joint pale orange. Antennae black, with the two basal joints 

 orange. 



a. East Indies. From Archdeacon Clerk's Collection. 



54. PENTATOMA anchora. 



Cimex anchora, Thunb. Nov. Ins. Sp. 47. t. 2. fig. 60 (1783). 



a. Tenasserim. Presented by Packman, Esq. 



b. Hong Kong. Presented by J. C. Bowring, Esq. 



55. PENTATOMA cruciata. 



Cimex cruciatus, Fab. E. S. iv. 119. 153 (1794) # S. R. 174. 99 

 (1803); Wolff, Ic. dm. 62. t. 7. fig. 59 (1801); H. Schdff. 

 Wanz. v. 63. 1. 164. fig. 506 (1839). 



