HEMIPTERA. 333 



ticulated lines on the disc, yellowish white ; membrane trans- 

 parent, brownish, shining, slightly brassy. Margins of the ab- 

 domen greenish, with a minute brown spine at the posterior 

 angle of each segment; the apical spines dark brown. Abdo- 

 men not much narrower at the apex than at the base ; beneath 

 pale fulvous, with the sides very finely punctured with brown ; 

 the lateral margins whitish ; the sutures and a short transverse 

 line near each of the stigmata, brown. Breast whitish, with a 

 large dull, pale brown patch on each side. Legs pale testaceous, 

 with the tarsi fulvous. Rostrum whitish, with the tip brown. 

 Antennae fulvous, with the basal joint testaceous; the second 

 joint much shorter than the third. 



a. Rio Janeiro. Presented by J. P. G. Smith, Esq. 



35. EDESSA fasciata, n. s. 



E. testacea, tenue punctata ; thoracis disco viridi, fascia trans- 

 versa postica nigra ; scutello apice viridi ( $ ) vel aurantiaco ( ? ); 

 elytris fuscis, flavo-nervosis ; abdominis spinis nigris ; anten- 

 nis elongatis, fuscis. $ 9 . 

 Long. lin. 6J. 



Rather elongate. Head testaceous, impunctate ; central lobe 

 with two black lines, meeting in front. Thorax with the ante- 

 rior and lateral margins testaceous, nearly impunctate ; the pos- 

 terior margin testaceous, finely punctured with brown; disc 

 green, punctured, with a broad black band across the posterior 

 portion. Scutellum testaceous, and very finely and thickly punc- 

 tured at the base, becoming green beyond the middle ; the apex 

 acute and distinctly channelled above, green in the male, bright 

 orange in the female. Coriaceous portion of the elytra dark 

 brown, with yellow nervures ; membrane brownish, semitrans- 

 parent, darker at the base. Margins of the abdomen testaceous, 

 with a minute spine at the apical angle of each segment ; apical 

 spines black. Body beneath testaceous, shining; the sutures 

 and a transverse line close to each of the stigmata brown. Legs 

 testaceous. Rostrum pale orange. Antennae nearly as long as 

 the body, slender, brown ; second joint shorter than the third. 

 a. Brazil. 



36. EDESSA Loxdalii. 



Edessa Loxdalii, Hope, Cat. 29 (1837). 



a. Brazil. Presented by Edward Doubleday, Esq. 





