352 



HEMIPTERA. 



Placosternum taurus, Am. fy Serv. Hem. 174. 1 (1843). 

 Stall, Pun. 25. pi. 5. fig. 34. 



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



b. Silhet. 



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



d. India. 



Genus 2. PHYLLOCEPHALA. 



Cimex, p., Fab. Ent. Syst. iv. (1794) # Syst. R. (1803). 



Edessa, p., Fab. Syst. R. (1803). 



Phyllocephala, Lap. Hm. 58 (1832). 



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



Schyzops, Spin. Hem. 297 (1837). 



Phyllocephala, Dalsira et Schizops, Am. fy Serv. Hem. (1843). 



Phyllocephala et Basicryptus, H. Schaff. Wanz. vii. (1844). 



* Head more or less elongated; lateral margins of the thorax 

 smooth. (PHYLLOCEPHALA, A. fy S.) 



1. PHYLLOCEPHALA foveata, n. s. 



P. pallida, fusco-irrorata ; capite thoraceque antice albidis, hoc 

 foveis 2 magnis nigris ; scutello basi punctis 3 albis ; mem- 

 brana albida, nigro-punctata ; antennis ferrugineis. c? 9 . 

 Long. lin. 7i- 



Pale testaceous, thickly covered with more or less confluent 

 brown punctures. Head whitish, thickly and rather finely ru- 

 gose-punctate. Eyes black. Thorax with a broad transverse 

 whitish impunctate band between the humeral angles ; the an- 

 terior portion whitish, punctured like the head, with two large 

 transverse triangular, black, rugose-punctate pits within the ante- 

 rior angles, each enclosing a small pale patch ; posterior portion 

 darker, thickly and finely punctured. Scutellum with a small 

 white spot on each side and a smaller one in the centre of the 

 base ; a small black pit occupies each basal angle. Coriaceous 

 portion of the elytra either of the same colour as the scutellum, 

 with a white dot on the disc behind the middle, or brownish fer- 

 ruginous, with the spot obsolete ; the outer margin always edged 

 with white ; membrane white, with numerous black or brown 

 dots. Margins of the abdomen white. Body beneath of the 

 same colour as the upper surface ; stigmata white ; postpectus 

 with a large black patch on each side. Legs concolorous ; with 

 the apices of the tibiae and the tarsi dark brown. Rostrum tes- 

 taceous, with the tip brown. Antennae ferruginous. 



a. S. Africa. Presented by the Earl of Derby. 



b. S. Africa. Presented by Dr. Andrew Smith. 



