320 HEMIPTERA. 



fusco transversim lineato ; pedibus testaceo nigroque striatis ; 



antennis nigris. 9 - 



Long. lin. 9, lat. hum. lin. 11. 



Pentatoma bubalus, LeP. fy Serv. Enc. x. 54. 8? (1825). 

 Edessa trabeata, Burm. Handb. ii. 355. 5? (1835). 

 Dorypleura bubalus, Am. $ Serv. Hem. 157. 1? (1843). 

 Stall, Pun. 139. pi. 36. fig. 253? 



Head pitchy black, with the lateral margins, and a line down 

 the centre, yellow. Eyes brown ; ocelli reddish. Thorax olive- 

 green, rather thickly punctured with black, with the lateral an- 

 gles produced into very long, acute, violet-black spines, and a 

 broad impunctate yellow band across before the middle, and 

 reaching some distance up the anterior portion of the base of the 

 lateral spines; the part of the thorax in front of this yellow 

 band is pitchy black, with the lateral margins and a transverse 

 line yellow ; the anterior angles have a small spine. Scutellum 

 orange, rather thickly punctured, with the apex and the apical 

 portion of the lateral margins green. Coriaceous portion of the 

 elytra deep pitchy brown, nearly black, thickly and finely punc- 

 tured, with the outer margin broadly bright yellow, the extreme 

 edge being brown ; membrane deep brown, shining, somewhat 

 brassy. Wings blackish brown, iridescent. Back of the abdo- 

 men steel-blue, very shining, with the lateral margins yellow; 

 apical spines black. Body beneath testaceous, with two trans- 

 verse, deep brown stripes, united towards the outer margin, and 

 not reaching the centre ; the centre of the abdomen and of the 

 sternal keel with a brown longitudinal line ; the sternal keel has 

 also a fine brown line on each side. Legs longitudinally striped 

 with yellowish white and black ; anterior tibiae nearly all black ; 

 tarsi black. Rostrum testaceous, with the tip black. Antennae 

 slender, black ; fourth and fifth joints wanting. 



a. Para. From Messrs. Wallace and Bates's Collection. 



t Lateral angles of the thorax produced into stout horns or pro- 

 cesses, generally truncated. (EDESSA, A. fy S.) 



2. EDESSA Cervus. 



Cimex cervus, Fab. E. S. iv. 91. 49 (1794). 



Cimex viridis, Don. Ins. Ind. Hem. pi. 8. fig. 1 (1800). 



Edessa cervus, Fab. S. R. 146. 2 (1803); Burm. Handb. ii. 354. 



3 (1835); H. Sch. Wanz. iv. 19. t. 115. fig. 366 (1839). 

 Stoll,Pun. lll.pl. 28. fig. 199. 



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



b. Brazil. From M. Mornay's Collection. 



c. Brazil. 



d. . 



