372 HEMIPTERA. 



Spartocerus bicolor, H. Sch. Wanz. vi. 89. t. 209. fig. 659 (1842). 

 Paryphes diabolicus, Blanch. D'Orb. Voy. en Am. mer. vi. 220. 

 fc.pl. 30. fig. 3(1843). 

 a. Brazil. 



2. SPARTOCERA formosa, n. s. 



S. supra nigra, villosa ; thorace rubro-maculato ; elytrorum corio 

 macula magna basali, alteraque apicali rufo-fulvis ; abdominis 

 marginibus corporeque subtus nigro-variegatis. $ . 

 Long. lin. 10 



Elongate. Head black, impunctate, rather smooth, with a 

 reddish mark on each side near the eyes, and a transverse red 

 line across the under side. Eyes brown ; ocelli reddish. Thorax 

 black, somewhat opaque, thickly covered with fine black hairs, 

 with two large bright red spots on the disc, running from near 

 the lateral angles to the middle of the anterior portion, where 

 they nearly touch one another; lateral angles rather prominent. 

 Scutellum black, opaque, villose. ilytra with the coriaceous 

 portion black, opaque, covered with short fine hairs, and with a 

 large reddish orange spot at the base, and another at the apex ; 

 membrane black, shining, bluish. Margins of the abdomen 

 banded with black and red. Abdomen beneath black, with five 

 red spots on each segment ; the central spot of the second seg- 

 ment large and rounded, of the third oval, of the fourth lozenge- 

 shaped, of the fifth and sixth very small ; the lateral spots form- 

 ing irregular patches surrounding the black stigmata, and run- 

 ning up to the lateral margin to correspond with the bands of 

 the upper surface ; the two intermediate spots of the second seg- 

 ment linear and oblique, of the third large and distinct, of the 

 fourth smaller and united by a short transverse line to the cen- 

 tral spot, of the fifth bifid and indistinct, and of the sixth very 

 small; vulvar plates black. Breast black, with a spot at the 

 base of each of the legs, a spot on each posterior angle of the 

 postpectus, and a large triangular spot in each lateral angle of 

 the antepectus, bright red. Rostrum black. Legs and antennae 

 black, thickly clothed with rather long black hairs. 

 a. Venezuela. From Mr. Dyson's Collection. 



3. SPARTOCERA maculata, n. s. 



S. rufa, capite supra lateribus exceptis, thoracis margine postico, 

 angulis lateralibus maculaque magna disci, scutello, elytrorum 

 fascia lata media, margine laterali nou attingenti, corii apice, 

 membrana, antennis pedibusque nigris ; corpore subtus nigro- 

 maculato. . 

 Long. lin. 9. 



