414 HEMIPTERA. 



nigroque variis ; pedibus testaceis, femoribus posticis apice, 



fasciaque pone medium, tibiisque basi et apice nigricantibus ; 



antennis nigris. $ . 



Long. lin. 7i- 



Head brownish testaceous, with a pale line down the middle, 

 and on each side of this an indistinct black spot. Thorax dull 

 black, clothed with short whitish hairs, with a central longitudi- 

 nal line, a line on each side of this not reaching the anterior 

 margin, and the lateral and posterior margins brownish testa- 

 ceous. Scutellum black, with a broad, central, longitudinal line 

 and the lateral margins brownish testaceous. Coriaceous portion 

 of the elytra brown, opaque, rather thickly punctured, and 

 clothed with short whitish hairs, with the nervures and margins 

 testaceous ; membrane brown, with the inner basal angle darker. 

 (Abdomen wanting.) Breast testaceous, opaque, clothed with 

 short hairs, and with several shining, black, elevated points of 

 various sizes. Legs brownish testaceous ; posterior thighs con- 

 siderably thickened, with a few small teeth beneath near the 

 apex, and numerous black, elevated points on the surface, the 

 apex and an irregular band behind the middle blackish; tibia 

 with an acute tooth on the inner margin behind the middle, and 

 a few minute teeth between this and the apex ; the base and apex 

 blackish ; tarsi blackish. Rostrum with the tips of the third and 

 fourth joints blackish. Antennae blackish. 



a. -- . From Mr. Children's Collection. 



Genus 16. HIMELLA, n. g. 



Head with the central lobe projecting beyond the antennife- 

 rous tubercles. Antennae about two-thirds the length of the body, 

 of four joints ; first and second joints nearly equal, third joint 

 shortest, cylindrical, fourth longest. Rostrum short, not passing 

 the anterior coxae; basal joint short, almost entirely concealed 

 in a canal of the under side of the head, third joint shortest, 

 fourth longest. Body elongate. Thorax with the lateral angles 

 very prominent, acute, serrated. Scutellum small. Abdomen 

 with the sides slightly prominent in the females, parallel and 

 concealed by the elytra in the males. Posterior thighs consider- 

 ably thickened and serrated beneath in both sexes; posterior 

 tibiae spinous internally in the male, simple in the female ; tarsi 

 three-jointed, with the basal joint as long as the other two toge- 

 ther ; second joint shortest. 



1. HIMELLA venosa, n. s. PI. XIII. fig. 1. 



H. fusco- fulvo- vel viridi-testacea, punctata; thorace postice, 



