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transparent, with the nervures fulvous, the marginal nervure 

 crimson. Back of the abdomen bright red, with the apical por- 

 tion and the margins pale orange-yellow. Body beneath yellowish 

 white. Abdomen impunctate. Breast thickly and finely punc- 

 tured. Legs testaceous, with the basal joint of the tarsi whitish. 

 Rostrum whitish. Antennae with the basal joint testaceous; 

 second and third joints brownish ; fourth joint pale brown, with 

 the base whitish. 



a. E. Indies. From Archdeacon Clerk's Collection. 



5. HOMCEOCERUS macula, n. s. 



H. supra fusco-fulvus, subtus luteus^ scutello fulvo ; thoracis 

 margine postico, elytrorumque macula media albidis ; antennis 

 fuscis, articulo ultimo flavo. ? . 

 Long. lin. 9. 



Above brownish fulvous. Head very thickly and finely punc- 

 tured with brown, with a short impressed longitudinal line close 

 to the anterior margin. Thorax thickly and finely punctured, 

 the punctures becoming dark brown towards the posterior mar- 

 gin; posterior margin yellowish white; lateral angles rounded. 

 Scutellum fulvous, finely punctured, with the tip yellow. Coria- 

 ceous portion of the elytra becoming brown towards the apex, 

 thickly and finely punctured with brown, with the outer margin 

 testaceous, and a large, somewhat reniform, transverse spot near 

 the apex ; membrane transparent, brownish, with the inner basal 

 angle deep brown. Wings brownish, transparent, iridescent ; 

 nervures brown, marginal nervure red. Back of the abdomen 

 bright red, with the tip blackish, the lateral margins testaceous. 

 Body beneath yellow. Abdomen impunctate, finely aciculated. 

 Breast thickly and finely punctured, with a small black point on 

 each side on the medi- and post-pectora. Legs pale fulvous. 

 Rostrum pale yellow, with the tip black. Antennae brown, with 

 the apical joint yellow. 



a. E. Indies. From Archdeacon Clerk's Collection. 



6. HOMCEOCERUS gutta, n. s. 



H. fulvo-testaceus, punctatus ; elytris macula media communi 

 albida, linea obliqua, membranaque basi nigricantibus. ? . 

 Long. lin. 8. 



Pale fulvous. Head with a small longitudinal fovea near the 

 anterior margin and a similar transverse fovea in front of each 

 of the ocelli. Thorax thickly and finely punctured, with a trans- 

 verse band of brownish punctures running close to the posterior 

 margin ; lateral angles rounded. Scutellum thickly and finely 

 punctured. Coriaceous portion of the elytra thickly and finely 



