298 HEMIPTERA. 



Above green, thickly and finely punctured. Head pale, with 

 the lateral lobes very minutely punctured, the vertex slightly 

 wrinkled. Eyes brownish ; ocelli reddish. Thorax with a yellow 

 transverse band between the lateral angles, which however it 

 does not reach ; the anterior and posterior margins of this yellow 

 band have a series of brown punctures. Scutellum with the apex 

 yellow. Membrane of the elytra brownish, semitransparent, 

 with a dark brown spot in the inner basal angle. Margins of the 

 abdomen with a minute black spine at the posterior angle of each 

 segment. Body beneath testaceous. Abdomen thickly and 

 finely punctured, with the centre smooth. Breast greenish, 

 thickly and finely punctured, with the central keel testaceous. 

 Legs greenish ; tibiae tinted with red at the apex ; tarsi ferrugi- 

 nous. Rostrum testaceous, with the tip black. Antennas ferru- 

 ginous, with the basal joint testaceous. 

 a. New Holland. 



8. CUSPICONA pulchra, n. s. 



C. testacea, fusco-punctata ; scutello fusco, marginibus testaceis; 

 elytrorum corio viridi, margine externo ferrugineo ; membrana 

 subhyalina, plagis 2 longitudinalibus fuscis ; abdomine fasciis 

 duabus longitudinalibus virescentibus. 9 . 

 Long. lin. 5. 



Above testaceous, rather thickly and finely punctured with 

 brown. Head large, very finely and thickly punctured. Eyes 

 brown. Thorax with the anterior portion paler than the poste- 

 rior, with a brownish band across near the anterior margin, and 

 a ferruginous spot on each lateral angle. Scutellum brown, with 

 the lateral margins bright testaceous. Coriaceous portion of the 

 elytra bright green, with the greater part of the outer margin 

 broadly ferruginous ; membrane semitransparent, brownish, with 

 two longitudinal brown dashes, one near the inner, the other 

 near the outer margin. Margins of the abdomen with a minute 

 black dot on the posterior angles of each segment ; the posterior 

 angles of the last segment acutely spinous and black. Abdomen 

 beneath with the sides rather thickly and finely punctured ; the 

 lateral margins bright yellowish olive ; within this on each side is 

 a broad pale green band, within this again a longitudinal reddish 

 testaceous band, and the central line of the abdomen greenish 

 olive. Breast punctured, with the sides yellowish olive, the an 

 tero-lateral margins orange, the disc reddish ; on each side is t 

 broad, oblique, impunctate white line. Thighs pale green ; tibia? 

 and tarsi brown. Rostrum testaceous, with the tip black. An 

 tennee deep brownish red. 



a. New Holland. From Mr. Lambert's Collection. 



