268 HEMIPTERA. 





entirely a little beyond the middle. Coriaceous portion of the 

 elytra with the basal half black, the apical bright red, with a 

 small round black spot a little behind the centre of the disc. 

 Membrane black, with the margin white. Margins of the abdo- 

 men banded with black and red, the basal portion of each seg- 

 ment being red. Breast and disc of the abdomen black ; the sides 

 of the abdomen broadly bright red, with a spot on the lateral 

 margin of each segment and the stigmata black ; the apical seg- 

 ment red, with a large black spot in the centre ; anal apparatus 

 black. Legs, rostrum and antennae deep black; the antennae 

 gradually increasing in thickness to the apex of the fourth joint ; 

 fifth wanting. 



a. Columbia. From M. Goudot's Collection. 



Genus 23. TROPICORIS. 



Cimex, p., Linn. S. N. i. (1767); Fab. Ent. Syst. iv. (1794) 4- 



Syst. R. (1803) ; Fall Mon. dm. (1807) fy Hem. Suec. (1829); 



Burm. Handb. ii. (1835). 

 Pentatoma, p., LeP. fy Serv. Enc. Meth. x. (1825) ; H. Schdff. 



Norn. Ent. (1835). 

 Tropicoris, Hahn, Wanz. ii. 52 (1834) ; Kolen. Mel. Ent. iv. 44 



(1846). 

 Cimex, Am. fy Serv. Hem. 149 (1843); Sahib. Geoc. Fenn. 30 



(1848). 



1. TROPICORIS rufipes. 



Cimex rufipes, Linn. S. N. i. 719. 24 (1767); DeG. Mem. iii. 



253. 2 (1773) ; Fab. E. S. iv. 93. 56 (1794) & S. R. 156. 5 



(1803); Wolff, Ic. dm. 9. 1. 1. fig. 9 (1800); Fall. Mon. dm. 



46. / (1807) # Hem. Suec. 26. 7 (1829) ; Burm. Handb. ii. 



366. 7 (1835); Am. $ Serv. Hem. 149. 1 (1843); Sahib. Geoc. 



Fenn. 30. 13 (1848). 

 Pentatoma rufipes, LeP. fy Serv. Enc. x. 55. 13 (1825); H. Sch. 



Norn. Ent. i. 56 & 93 (1835). 

 Tropicoris rufipes, Hahn, Wanz. ii. 54. t. 4?. fig. 145 (1834); 



Kolen. Mel. Ent. iv. 44. 169 (1846). 

 Tropicoris, Amyot, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 2 me ser. iii. 454. 70 (1845). 



a. England. 



b. France. 



c. France. Presented by J. G. Children, Esq. 



Genus 24. ^Ecius, n. g. 



Head elongate, narrowed in front, finely emarginate at the 

 apex, lateral lobes passing the central lobe considerably and 



