HEMIPTERA. 301 



1. DIPLOSTIRA valida, n. s. PI. X. fig. 5. 



D. testacea, fusco-punctata ; capite lineis 6 nigris ; thorace pos- 

 tice, scutelloque fascia media intermpta fusco-nigris ; elytris 

 fuscis, margine exteriori testaceo ; pedibus antennisque rufo- 

 fulvis, femoribus nigro-punctatis, tibiis externe nigro biline- 

 atis. ? . 

 Long. lin. 12-13. 



Testaceous, shining, more or less punctured with brown. 

 Head with the lateral margins black, and with six punctured, 

 blackish brown longitudinal lines, placed two on the central lobe, 

 which meet at the centre of the vertex, and two on each lateral 

 lobe, meeting at the ocelli. Thorax orange testaceous, thickly 

 and coarsely punctured with dark brown ; the punctures be- 

 coming confluent on the posterior portion of the disc, forming a 

 broad blackish brown band, indistinctly clouded with testaceous; 

 the postero-lateral margins are testaceous, coarsely punctured 

 with brown. Scutellum orange testaceous ; the base impunctate, 

 with the lateral margins strongly punctured with blackish brown, 

 and four punctured blackish brown spots across at the margin of 

 the thorax ; the apex rather finely punctured with brown ; the 

 middle occupied by a broad, blackish brown transverse band, in- 

 terrupted in the middle. Coriaceous portion of the elytra with 

 the disc covered with rather coarse, confluent, brown punctures, 

 so that only a few points of the testaceous ground colour appears ; 

 outer margin testaceous, with two longitudinal lines of blackish 

 brown punctures ; membrane brown, semitransparent. Abdo- 

 men beneath testaceous, very thickly and finely punctured with 

 brown, and clothed with fine, short, whitish hairs, with the cen- 

 tral keel impunctate, smooth and naked. Breast testaceous, 

 more coarsely, but less closely punctured than the abdomen, 

 naked, shining and somewhat rugose. Legs orange-red ; thighs 

 covered with round black points ; tibiae with a black line down 

 each of the ridges of the outer edge ; claws black. Rostrum and 

 antennae pale orange-red ; the apical joint of the latter palest. 

 a. Silhet. From Mr. Stainforth's Collection. 



b. Silhet. 



Genus 39. ARVELIUS. 



Cimex, p., DeG. Mem. iii. (1773); Fab. Ent. Syst. iv. (1794) & 



Syst. R. (1803). 



Pentatoma, p., Pal. Beauv. Ins. (1805). 

 Acanthosoma, p., Burm. Handb. ii. (1835). 

 Arvelius, p., Spin. Hem. 344 (1837) ; H. Schdff. Wanz.v. (1839). 

 Arvelius, Am. $ Serv. Hem. 150 (1843). 



