HEMIPTERA. 429 



Eyes black ; ocelli red. Thorax with the lateral angles produced 

 into broad, flat, acute processes, the margins serrated both before 

 and behind the angles ; the surface with a few scattered acute 

 tubercles \ the anterior portion thickly clothed with whitish hairs. 

 Scutellum with a narrow raised margin ; the tip with a minute 

 yellow tubercle. Membrane of the elytra black. Margins of the 

 abdomen with a yellowish spot at the apex of each segment. 

 Body beneath brown, opaque, thickly clothed with very short, 

 fine yellow hairs. Abdomen with the margins darker ; stigmata 

 blackish. Breast with an orange patch on each side at the opening 

 of the odoriferous apparatus, the under side of the lateral pro- 

 cesses of the prothorax blackish. Anterior and intermediate thighs 

 brown, clothed with short, golden yellow hairs, with two rows 

 of short black spines on the under surface, the intermediate pair 

 with a single row on the upper surface also ; anterior and inter- 

 mediate tibise prismatic, and with the tarsi fulvous brown ; claws 

 black ; posterior thighs very broad, compressed, brown, clothed 

 with yellow hairs ; the inner surface with a broad furrow near the 

 upper edge ; the edge itself with a row of tubercles ; the portion 

 below the furrow covered with small tubercles ; outer surface with 

 a row of tubercles along the upper edge and several scattered 

 ones on the disc ; the lower margin with a large spine about the 

 middle and two or three smaller ones on each side of this ; pos- 

 terior tibiae thickly clothed with golden hairs, compressed, dilated; 

 the outer dilated portion broad, widest at about one-third the 

 length of the tibia from its base, then narrowed to the middle, 

 and thence of the same width to the apex, which is emarginate, 

 with the outer angle subacute; inner margin very slightly di* 

 lated, with numerous small teeth, and two or three larger ones ; 

 tarsi yellow ; claws black. Rostrum pale brown, the apical joint 

 fulvous, tipped with black. Antennse very long, rather stout ; 

 first three joints chestnut-brown ; apical joint dull fulvous. 

 a. Honduras. From Mr. Dyson's Collection. 



4. METAPODIUS suratus. 



Diactor suratus, Burm. Handb. ii. 334. 2? (1835) ; H. Sch. Wanz. 



iii. 94. t. 103. fig. 318 a-b. (1836). 

 Anisoscelis Stollii, Guer. Voy. Coq. Atl. Ins. pi. 12. fig. 6 (<?) 



(1830). 

 Anisoscelis suralis, Guer. Voy. Coq. Atl. Ins. pi. 12. fig. 8. ( $ ) 



(1830). * 



Anisocelis femoratus, Guer. Voy. Coq. Zool. ii. Ins. 175 (<? ?) 



(1830). 



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



b. Brazil. From Mr. Children's Collection. 



c. Brazil. 



