HEMIPTERA. 359 



base and within the lateral margins; margins ochreous, punc- 

 tured. Abdomen beneath thickly punctured with brown, and 

 with numerous black points ; third, fourth and fifth segments, 

 each with a large whitish patch on each side of the disc. Breast 

 brownish, obscure, with a large, shining, chestnut-brown patch 

 on each side of the medipectus. Legs concolorous ; thighs co- 

 vered with brown points. Rostrum with the tip black. Antennae 

 testaceous, covered with brown points; the last joint brown, 

 with the base testaceous. 



a. India. From Archdeacon Clerk's Collection. 



Genus 6. DIPLORHINUS. 



Diplorhinus, Am. fy Serv. Hem. 178 (1843). 

 Phyllocephala, p., H. Sch. Wanz. vii. (1844). 



1. DIPLORHINUS furcatus. 



Atelocerus? furcatus, Hope, Cat. 20 (1837). 



Diplorhinus furcatus, Am. 6f Serv. Hem. 178. 1. pi. 3. fig. 6 



(1843) [nee Fab.']. 



Phyllocephala distans, H. Sch. Wanz. vii.71.t.237. fig. 740(1844). 

 a. . Presented by General Thomas Hardwicke. 



Genus 7. SCHISMATOPS, n. g. 



Head elongate, triangular, somewhat pointed in front, cleft to 

 about the middle, but with the inner margins of the lateral lobes 

 close together. Eyes moderate ; ocelli distant. Antennae with 

 the basal joint very short (remainder wanting). Rostrum short, 

 only reaching the anterior coxae ; basal joint entirely concealed ; 

 third joint longest ; fourth longer than the second. Body ob- 

 long ovate. Thorax with the lateral angles produced into flat, 

 acute spines; lateral margins irregularly denticulated. Scutel- 

 lum rather long and narrow. Membrane with longitudinal ner- 

 vures. Legs moderate ; tibiae angular ; tarsi of three joints ; 

 basal and apical joints nearly equal. 



1. SCHISMATOPS obscurus, n. s. PI. XL fig. 4. 



S. fuscus, obscurus, punctatus, thorace subrugoso; membrana 

 fuscescente, subopaca, punctis nigris ; pedibus testaceis, fusco- 

 punctatis. 

 Long. lin. 8. 



a. W. Africa, Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



