426 HEMIPTERA. 



the lateral margins impunctate. Coriaceous portion of the elytra 

 deep blackish brown, finely and not very thickly punctured, the 

 nervures elevated, smooth, bright yellow ; membrane brownish, 

 semitransparent, with the inner basal angle brassy black. Back 

 of the abdomen bright orange-red, with the tip and the spines of 

 the posterior angles of each segment black. Abdomen beneath 

 bright red, narrowly margined with yellow and with the tip yellow. 

 Breast pitchy brown, with the antepectus, and the posterior 

 margin of the medi- and postpectora thickly and rather strongly 

 punctured, the remainder of the breast faintly wrinkled and punc- 

 tured. Anterior and intermediate legs bright orange, with the 

 knees blackish; posterior thighs in the male considerably thicker 

 than in the female, deep black, shining, with a long white semi- 

 transparent spine beneath a little before the middle ; in the fe- 

 male with the basal half yellow, the apical half black ; posterior 

 tibiae orange, black at the base, simple and nearly straight in the 

 female ; incurved near the base in the male, and with a strong 

 spine tipped with black on the inner margin. Rostrum with the 

 two basal joints brownish, the two apical joints orange. Antennae 

 black, with the base of the second and third joints and a ring 

 near the base of the fourth joint white. 



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



10. NEMATOPUS ruficrus. 



Anisoscelis ruficrus, Perty, Del An. Ant. 1/1. t. 34. fig. 4 (18.30). 

 Nematopus ruficrus, Burm. Handb. ii. 337. 3 (1835); H. Sch. 



Warn. iii. 61. t. 91. fi<*. 275 (<?) (1836) & vi. 78. t. 207. 



fig. 649 (?) (1842). 

 Pachymeria ruficrus, Spin. Hem. 132. 1 (1837). 



a. Brazil. From M. Mornay's Collection. 



b. Brazil. Presented by Francis Walker, Esq. 



c. Brazil. 



d. . From Mr. Children's Collection. 



11. NEMATOPUS obscurus. 



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



a. Brazil. From M. Mornay's Collection. 



b. Brazil. 



12. NEMATOPUS nervosus. 



Nematopus nervosus, Lap. Hem. 30 (1832); Am. ^* Serv. Hem. 



200. 2 (1843). 

 Stoll, Pun. 141. pi. 36. fig. 255. 



