HEMIPTERA. 



bands. Thighs pale brown, clothed with short whitish hairs, the 

 posterior pair much thickened, fusiform, with only one or two 

 minute teeth close to the apex ; tibiae testaceous, brownish at the 

 base, the posterior pair compressed, curved inwards a little be- 

 hind the middle, and with an acute tooth at the same place on 

 the inner margin ; between this tooth and the apex are one or two 

 minute denticulations ; tarsi testaceous ; claws brown, tipped 

 with black. Rostrum reaching the anterior coxae, with the tip 

 reposing in the canal of the front of the mesosternum ; testaceous, 

 with the tip black. Antennae with the first three joints nearly 

 equal in length ; basal joint brownish, second and third orange, 

 last joint brown with the base testaceous. 



a. N. S. Wales. Presented by Dr. A. Sinclair. 



3. AMORBUS rubiginosus. 



Coreus rubiginosus, Guer. Voy. Coq. Zool. ii. Ins. 173 (1830). 

 Physomerus affinis, Hope, Cat. 9 (1842). 



a. N. Holland. 



b. N. Holland. Presented by the Entomological Club. 



c. Port Essington. From Mr. Gould's Collection. 



4. AMORBUS angustior. 



Physomerus angustior, Hope, Cat. 9 (1842). 



a. N. Holland. Presented by Sir John Richardson, M.D. 



5. AMORBUS obscuricornis. 



Physomerus obscuricornis, Hope, Cat. 9 (1842). 



a. Van Diemen's Land. 



b. Van Diemen's Land. From Mr. Children's Collection. 



c. Van Diemen's Land. From Mr. Hooker's Collection. 



d. Van Diemen's Land. Presented by the Rev. T. Ewing. 

 e. . From Mr. Children's Collection. 



/. N. Holland. Presented by Sir John Richardson, M.D. 



6. AMORBUS abdominalis, n. s. PI. XII. fig. 8. 



A. supra, cum pectore, pedibus, aritennisque nigricantibus ; scu- 

 tello apice puncto albido ; abdomine valde dilatato, fere cir- 

 culari, mbro. $ . 

 Long. lin. 9|. 



Oblong ovate ; above blackish brown, somewhat opaque. Head 

 covered with very minute, whitish, elevated points. Thorax 

 thickly and rather strongly punctured, and covered with minute 

 whitish points ; lateral margins slightly curved outwards towards 

 the lateral angles, which are somewhat prominent. Scutellum 

 rather long, rather strongly punctured, and covered with white 



