288 HEMIPTERA. 



Above reddish brown. Head pale, with irregular, black, punc- 

 tured lines. Thorax and scutellum convex, very minutely and 

 thickly punctured with black ; scutellum paler towards the apex. 

 Coriaceous portion of the elytra pale brown, clouded with darker, 

 very finely and thickly punctured with black ; membrane trans- 

 parent, with a brown cloud at the base. Margins of the abdo- 

 men variegated with reddish orange and black, thickly and finely 

 punctured. Abdomen beneath with the disc ochreous, smooth, 

 shining, impunctate ; the sides dark brown, thickly punctured ; 

 the last segment entirely dark brown; anal apparatus yellow. 

 Ventral spine rather long, passing the posterior coxae. Breast 

 dark brown, with the centre testaceous. Legs testaceous. Ros- 

 trum testaceous, with the tip black. Antennae wanting. 



40. RHAPHIGASTER flavovarius, n. s. 



R. niger, punctatus ; thorace maculis parvis nonnullis, scutelli 

 cruce media, apice maculisque duabus basalibus, pedibusque 

 flavis ; abdominis marginibus flavo nigroque variis. $ . 

 Long. lin. 3. 



Above black, thickly and rather finely punctured. Head with 

 a few irregular yellowish points. Thorax with the lateral mar- 

 gins, a spot on the centre of the anterior margin, a correspond- 

 ing one on the posterior margin, one on each lateral margin, and 

 three or four on the disc, yellow. Scutellum with a large cross 

 on the disc, the apex and a spot in each basal angle, yellow. Co- 

 riaceous portion of the elytra with the base of the outer margin, 

 and a spot on the disc a little behind the middle, yellow ; mem- 

 brane transparent, with an indistinct brown, transverse band 

 across the middle. Margins of the abdomen banded with yellow 

 and black. Abdomen beneath black, with the sides thickly and 

 finely punctured, the lateral margins banded with yellow and 

 black ; basal spine passing the posterior coxae, brown. Leg 

 yellow. Rostrum brownish. Antennae pale brown, with th 

 fourth and fifth joints black. 



a. N. India. From Capt. Boys's Collection. 



41. RHAPHIGASTER bicinctus. 



Cimex bicinctus, Germ. Silb. Rev. Ent. v. 174. 110 (1837). 

 Rhaphigaster bicinctus, H. Sch. Wanz. viii. 7 & 9. t. 252. fig. 

 (1845). 



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



&. S. Africa. Presented by Dr. A. Smith. 



c. S. Africa. 



