374 HEMIPTERA. 



neath deep red, opaque. Abdomen with a broad band of white 

 hairs down each side ; the hairs placed most closely together at 

 the base, becoming gradually thinner towards the apex ; the disc 

 with a few, very short whitish hairs ; anal plate very thickly 

 clothed with the same. Breast very thickly clothed with short 

 white hairs on the sides, more sparingly on the sternum, and with 

 three large, black, velvety spots on each side. Legs deep red, 

 pilose, and with numerous small white dots. Rostrum with the 

 two basal joints deep red, clothed with white hairs, the two api- 

 cal joints pitchy. Antennae with the two basal joints pitchy red, 

 black at the apex, the two apical joints black; all the joints 

 clothed with short black hairs, and with numerous small white 

 dots on the three first. 



a. Para. From Messrs. Wallace and Bates' Collection. 



7. SPARTOCERA alternata, n. s. 



S. supra testacea; capite, thoracis disco, scutello, maculaque in 

 singulo elytro,nigricantibus; corpore subtus, pedibus, antennis- 

 que nigris ; abdominis marginibus flavo nigroque fasciatis. <? . 

 Long. lin. 9. 



Head black. Thorax with the lateral angles prominent, flat, 

 obtuse, the posterior margin emarginate over the base of the 

 scutellum ; disc blackish, becoming black towards the anterior 

 margin; the lateral angles and a small triangular spot in the 

 centre of the posterior margin testaceous. Scutellum blackish, 

 with the tip testaceous, and with a curved ridge across the disc. 

 Elytra testaceous ; coriaceous portion with the base of the outer 

 margin black, the base of the inner margin and an irregular 

 cloudy spot at the inner apical angle blackish ; membrane with 

 elongated brownish spots in the interstices of the nervures ; these 

 spots are dark brown in the three or four inner basal cells. Mar- 

 gins of the abdomen very prominent, thin, projecting upwards, 

 banded with black and yellow, both above and beneath, the 

 yellow band forming the apex of each segment. Body beneath, 

 legs, rostrum and antennae black; lateral angles of the ante- 

 pectus testaceous. 



a. Columbia. From M. Goudot's Collection. 



8. SPARTOCERA moesta. 



Reduvius moestus, Fab. E. S. iv. 198. 19 (1/94). 



Coreus mcestus, Fab. S. R. 193. 8 (1803). 



Spartocerus geniculatus, Burm. Handb. ii. 342. 2 (1835) ; H. Sch. 



Wanz. vi. 89. t. 209. fig. 660 (1842). 

 Spartocerus lateritius, Hope, Cat. 7 (1842). 

 Spartocerus serrulatus, H. Sch. Wanz. vi. 12 &90. 1. 1 85. fig. 568 ? 



(1842) [nee Perty]. 



