424 HEMIPTERA. 



last segments, and the intermediate legs entirely orange. The 

 posterior legs in the male have the same structure as in the pre- 

 ceding species ; in the female the thighs have a row of spines of 

 various sizes along the under side, and the tibiae are slightly 

 curved throughout their whole length, and equally denticulated 

 from near the base to the apex. Antennae black, the last joint 

 with a band near its base, and the extreme tip deep orange. 

 a. Philippine Islands. From Mr. Cuming's Collection. 



4. NEMATOPUS pallicornis, n. s. 



N. piceus, opacus; abdominis lateribus, pedibus anticis et 

 intermediis, tibiis tarsisque posticis, antennisque fulvo-testa- 

 ceis. <? . 

 Long. lin. 11. 



Pitchy brown, somewhat opaque. Head very finely punctured. 

 Thorax thickly and finely punctured, blackish in front and on the 

 sides. Scutellum blackish, thickly and finely punctured. Coria- 

 ceous portion of the elytra thickly and finely punctured, with the 

 nervures slightly elevated and smooth ; membrane brown, semi- 

 transparent. Back of the abdomen black, with its base and sides 

 and the lateral margins yellow. Abdomen beneath clothed with 

 very short yellowish hairs, with the lateral margins and a narrow 

 line across the posterior margins of the segments testaceous. 

 Breast finely wrinkled and clothed with minute yellowish hairs, 

 with one or two yellow tubercles at the apertures of the odori- 

 ferous apparatus. Anterior and intermediate legs dull fulvous ; 

 posterior thighs deep brown, black inside, covered with minute 

 elevated points, with several larger tubercles on the inside, and a 

 row of small spines above near the base ; under side with a large 

 curved spine about the middle, two small spines between this arid 

 the base, another between it and the apex, and two others at the 

 apex ; posterior tibiae and tarsi of the same colour as the anterior ' 

 legs, the tibiae covered with minute elevated points, and w r ith the 

 inner margin rather distantly and finely denticulated. Rostrum 

 brownish fulvous, with the apical joint pitchy. Antennae dull 

 fulvous. 



a. Philippine Islands. From Mr. Cuming's Collection. 



5. NEMATOPUS nepalensis. 



Nematopus nepalensis, Hope, Cat. 14 (1842). 

 Nematopus brevicornis, H. Sch. Wanz. ix. 261. t. 321. f. 995 

 (1851). 



a. Nepal. Presented by General Thomas Hardwicke. 

 5. India. From Mr. Children's Collection. 



