442 HEMIPTERA. 



1. CARPIA punctata, n. s. PI. XIII. fig. 3. 



C. testacea, nigro-punctata, subtus punctis nonnullis majoribus 

 nigris ; antennis testaceis, articulo ultimo toto, et reliquis basi 

 et apice, nigris. $ . 

 Long. lin. 5^. 



Above pale greyish testaceous, thickly and finely punctured 

 with black. Head with the lateral margins and two longitudinal 

 lines on the disc black. Thorax with the anterior margin, a band 

 down each lateral margin within the edge, and a narrow longitu- 

 dinal central line, impunctate ; the extreme lateral margins and 

 two small spots near the anterior margin black. Scutellum 

 marked angularly with black at the base. Coriaceous portion of 

 the elytra with the outer margin reddish ; membrane brownish, 

 semitransparent, with the nervures darker. Wings brown, iri- 

 descent. Back of the abdomen deep black, with the margins 

 orange banded with black. Abdomen beneath dull fulvous, 

 thickly and finely punctured with black, with a row of larger 

 black points down each side within the stigmata, and two others 

 near the middle of the second and third segments. Breast dusky 

 oehreous, thickly and finely punctured, some of the punctures 

 being black, and with two black spots on each side of each seg- 

 ment. Legs pale testaceous, with the tips of the thighs and 

 tibiae and the tarsi black. Rostrum testaceous, with the last 

 joint brownish. Antennae concolorous with the legs, with the 

 base and apex of the first three joints, and the whole of the 

 fourth, black. 



a. . Presented by General Thomas Hardwicke. 



Genus 4. LAGARIA, n. g. 



Head square, with the front nearly truncated, the antenniferous 

 tubercles slightly prominent. Eyes very prominent. Ocelli di- 

 stant. Antennae slender, shorter than the body, of four joints ; 

 basal joint stoutest ; second and third thinnest, about equal, a 

 little longer than the first ; fourth a little shorter than the third, 

 nearly as thick as the first. Rostrum reaching the intermediate 

 coxae, slender; basal joint thickest, reaching the base of the 

 head ; second and fourth joints about equal ; third joint very 

 short. Body oblong, elongate. Thorax with the lateral angles 

 more or less prominent and acute. Scutellum about equilateral. 

 Membrane of the elytra with about ten longitudinal nervures. 

 Legs rather slender ; tarsi of three joints ; basal joint about equal 

 to the others together; second joint a little shorter than the 

 third. 



Coreus, p., Fab. Ent. Syst. iv. (1794) <$ Syst. Rh. (1803). 

 Gonocerus, p., H. Sch. Wanz. vii. (1844), 



