HEMIPTERA. 255 



Pentatoma cruciata, Am. fy Serv. Hem. 132. 7 (1843). 

 Stoll, Pun. 90. pi. 23. fig. 157. 



a. Tenasserim. Presented by Packman, Esq. 



b. N. Bengal. From Lieut. Campbell's Collection. 



c. N. India. From Capt. Boys' Collection. 



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



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

 /. India. From Mr. Children's Collection. 



56. PENTATOMA? perspicua. 



Cimex perspicuus, Fab. E. S. Supp. 533. 104 (1798); Burm. 



Handb. ii. 370. 16 (1835); H. Sch. Wanz. iv. 91. t. 138. 



fig. 429 (1839). 



Edessa perspicua, Fab. S. R. 151. 21 (1803). 

 Pentatoma perspicua, Am. fy Serv. Hem. 130. 1. pi. 3. fig. 4 (1843). 

 a. . Presented by the Entomological Club. 



57. PENTATOMA? proxima, n. s. 



P. praecedenti valde affinis, ejusdemque coloribus ; differt prae- 



cipue maculis nigris paucioribus ; stigmatibus incoloribus ; 



rostroque ultra abdominis medium extenso, articulis 2 basali- 



bus rubris. $ ? . 



Long. lin. 7-7i- 



Bright red, thickly and rather finely punctured above. Head 

 with the tip of the central lobe and a spot at its base, a spot on 

 the centre of the vertex, a smaller one behind each eye and the 

 orbits of the ocelli, black. Eyes black. Thorax with two round 

 black spots on the disc. Scutellum with two large black spots at the 

 base. Coriaceous portion of the elytra with a large, round, black 

 spot on the disc towards the apex ; membrane black, with the 

 apical margin white. Margins of the abdomen very prominent 

 and thin, with the posterior angles of each segment very promi- 

 nent and rather acute ; a narrow band on the base and apex of 

 each segment, black. Abdomen beneath smooth and impunctate, 

 with the margins banded with black as on the upper surface ; a 

 black spot on the centre of the apical segment, and in the female 

 a black spot on each of the basal vulvar plates. Breast sparingly 

 punctured, with three black spots on each side. Thighs bright 

 red, with the tips, and on the anterior pair a ring near the apex, 

 black ; tibiae and tarsi black. Rostrum very long, reaching the 

 middle of the penultimate segment of the abdomen ; the two 

 basal joints bright red, the two apical black ; third joint very long. 

 Antennae black. 



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



b. . 



