428 HEMIPTERA. 



anticis fulvo-ferrugineis> posticis rufo-fuscis, tarsis luteis, fe^ 

 morum dentibus nigris. ? . 

 Long. lin. 11. 



Above dark brown, somewhat obscure. Head nearly blacky 

 with a few short yellow hairs. Eyes brown; ocelli reddish. 

 Thorax dark brown, with numerous small, smooth elevations, 

 the interstices between which are very finely and thickly punc- 

 tured, and clothed with very short yellow hairs ; the anterior por- 

 tion is occupied by a patch of yellowish white hairs, with several 

 small, naked brown marks and dots ; lateral angles of the thorax 

 prominent, acute, denticulated. Scutellum with the apex yellow, 

 a line of yellow hairs down each margin, a similar line within 

 each margin, and another running down the middle from base to 

 apex. Coriaceous portion of the elytra dark brown, with the 

 nervures red ; the borders of the nervures, and generally a line 

 in each of the cells, clothed with short yellow hairs ; membrane 

 brown, with yellow nervures. Wings transparent, with brown 

 nervures. Abdomen above dark brown, somewhat opaque ; mar^ 

 gins clothed with yellow hairs. Body beneath pale fulvous 

 brown, smooth and somewhat shining. Abdomen impunctate, 

 clothed with short yellow hairs ; stigmata black. Breast with the 

 sternum and the anterior portion of the medi- and postpectua 

 inlpunctate, the antepectus and the posterior portion of the other 

 two segments rather strongly punctured and somewhat rugose. 

 Four anterior legs fulvous ; thighs with a row of black teeth be- 

 neath, becoming larger towards the apex ; posterior thighs red- 

 dish chestnut, with two longitudinal furrows on the outer sur- 

 face ; the upper margin with two rows of small black teeth, the 

 lower margin with a row of strong black serrations ; posterior 

 tibiae dilated, foliaceous, widest at the base ; the outer portion 

 with a strong tooth before the middle, from which it is of nearly 

 the same width to the apex, where, however, it is a little widened 

 and rounded ; inner portion dilated at the base into a semicir- 

 cular plate which occupies about one-third of the length of the 

 tibia, the remainder narrow and of the same width to the apex 

 of the tibia ; tarsi yellow, with black claws. Rostrum and an- 

 tennae pale fulvous brown (last joint wanting). 

 a. . 



3. METAPODIUS thoracicus, n. s. 



M. fuscus, opacus, luteo-pilosus; thorace postice alato, marginibus 

 serratis ; antennis elongatis castaneis, articulo ultimo fulvo. 3 . 

 Long. lin. 15. 



An Diactor alatus, Burm. Handb. ii. 334. 3 (1835?). 



Above brown, opaque, clothed with short yellowish hairs. 



