HEMIPTERA. 311 



ceous portion of the elytra reddish brown, thickly and strongly 

 punctured, with the outer margin, and an oblique transverse line 

 running across the disc to the inner apical angle, testaceous ; 

 membrane transparent, brownish. Body beneath testaceous, 

 smooth, shining, im punctate. Abdomen with a strong central 

 keel ; anal apparatus, and the posterior angles of the last abdo- 

 minal segment, black. Legs and rostrum testaceous. Antennae 

 pale brownish orange (two apical joints wanting). 



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



22. ACANTHOSOMA uniguttatum. 



Cimex uniguttatus, Don, Ins. Ind. Hem. pi. 8. fig. 5 (1800). 

 Sastragala uniguttata, Am. fy Serv. Hem. 155. 1 (1843). 

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



23. ACANTHOSOMA rufescens, n. s. 



A. supra ferrugineum, nigro-punctatum ; elytrorum margine ex- 

 terno, thoraceque antice olivaceis ; hoc fascia transversa fulva, 

 angulis lateralibus spinosis, spinis magnis, acutis, runs; cor- 

 pore subtus fulvo, abdominis apice sanguineo. $ . 

 Long. lin. 7> 



Head dull olive, impunctate, pointed in front, with the vertex 

 nge. Thorax with the anterior portion olive, rather coarsely 

 ; sparingly punctured with black, and with a broad, impunc- 

 e, orange band near the anterior margin; posterior portion 

 uginous, rather thickly punctured with black ; lateral angles 

 iuced into long, acute, red spines, which are directed a little 

 forwards, but have the apex slightly turned back ; the basal por- 

 tion of these spines is coarsely punctured with black, the apex 

 smooth. Scutellum ferruginous olive, sparingly and irregularly 

 punctured with black ; the apex testaceous. Coriaceous portion 

 of the elytra thickly and rather strongly punctured with black, 

 with the outer margin, as far as the submarginal nervure, olive ; 

 membrane transparent, brownish. Body beneath orange ; breast 

 yellowish; abdomen with the posterior angles of the last seg- 

 ment, and the posterior margins of the intermediate and apical 

 vulvar plates, bright red. Legs pale yellowish olive, with the 

 base of the thighs and the tarsi orange testaceous. Rostrum 

 short, testaceous. Antennae pale olive (two apical joints wanting). 

 a. . Presented by General Thomas Hardwicke. 



24. ACANTHOSOMA laevicorne, n. s. 



A. supra navescenti-olivaceum, punctatum; thorace spinoso, 

 spinis longis, validis, apice sub-recurvis, acutis ; corpore sub- 

 tus fulvo ; antennis articulo tertio nigro, basi pallido, $ 9 . 

 Long. <? lin. 7i, ? lin. 10. 



