HEMIPTERA. 341 



Tesseratoma javana, Burm. Handb. ii. 350. 1 (1835). 

 Tesseratoma javanica, Am. fy Serv. Hem. 165. 1 (1843). 

 Stall, Pun. 9. pi. 1. fig. 2. 



a. India. 



b. Java. From the East India Company's Collection. 



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



3. TESSARATOMA nigripes, n. s. 



1*. praecedenti valde affinis, ejusdemque coloris ; scutelli apice, 

 abdominis dorso, pedibus, antennisque nigris. $ . 

 Long. lin. 15J. 



Of the same colour and form as the preceding species. Head 

 with the margin narrowly edged with black. Thorax with the 

 lateral margins rounded, broadly reflexed. Scutellum with the 

 apex broad and rounded, hollowed above and black. Elytra and 

 wings as in the preceding. Back of the abdomen black, some- 

 what shining, finely wrinkled transversely, with the margins dark 

 brown. Abdomen beneath dull red, somewhat opaque, very 

 thickly covered with minute, confluent punctures, with the central 

 keel, the lateral margins and an irregular interrupted band on 

 each side of each segment deep pitchy brown. Breast spotted 

 with black ; sternal keel deep chocolate-brown. Legs, rostrum 

 and antennae black ; the latter longer and more slender than in 

 the preceding species. 

 a. . 



4. TESSARATOMA picea, n. s. 



T. picea vel castanea, punctata; thoracis lateribus productis, 

 antice rotundato-angulatis ; antennarum articulo ultimo apice 

 fulvo. < $ . 

 Long. 6 lin. 14, $ lin. 17- 



Pitchy or deep chestnut, shining, thickly and finely punctured. 

 Thorax with the sides produced into broad, somewhat angular 

 processes, rounded at the apex ; the disc faintly wrinkled trans- 

 versely. Scutellum short and broad, with the apex somewhat 

 pointed. Membrane of the elytra brassy ; wings violet. Back 

 of the abdomen pitchy black, very thickly punctured and ob- 

 scure ; the centre with two broad longitudinal ridges, the sur- 

 face of which is shining, and finely but sharply wrinkled. Ab- 

 domen beneath very thickly and minutely punctured ; with the 

 central keel shining and finely wrinkled longitudinally. Sternal 

 keel chestnut-brown in the male, testaceous in the female. An- 

 tennae black, with the apex of the last joint orange. 



a. Java. 



b. . Presented by the Entomological Club. 



