BEMIPTERA. 44? 



11. HOMCEOCERUS unipunctatus. 



Cimex unipunctatus, Thunb. Nov. Ins. Sp. 38. t. 2. f. 52 (1783). 

 Gonocerus marginellus, H. Sch. Wanz. vi. 7- 1. 182. f. 562 (1842). 



a. Java. From the East India Company's Collection. 



b. Tenasserim. Presented by J. D. C. Packman, Esq. 

 n. . Presented by General Thomas Hardwicke. 



12. HOMCEOCERUS chinensis, n. s. 



H. praecedenti valde affinis, differt statura majori, antennis lon- 

 gioribus, articulo tertio apice nigro. $ . 

 Long. lin. 6i. 



Brownish testaceous, somewhat fulvous beneath. Above thickly 

 and finely punctured with brown. Thorax with the lateral angles 

 prominent. Coriaceous portion of the elytra with a black point 

 on the centre of the disc. Abdomen beneath somewhat opaque, 

 with a few minute brown points and a row of larger black points 

 down each side within the stigmata. Breast thickly and finely 

 punctured and with two black points on each side. Legs pale 

 fulvous covered with minute brown points. Rostrum pale, with 

 the tip black. Antenna with the first two joints concolorous with 

 the body, and covered with minute brown points ; second joint 

 brownish at the tip; third joint reddish brown, with the tip 

 black ; fourth joint yellowish. 



a. Hong Kong. Presented by J. C. Bowring, Esq. 



Genus 6. ORNYTUS, n. g. 



Head square, with a slight emargination between the antenni- 

 ferous tubercles. Antennae rather stout; basal joint stoutest, 

 second longest, fourth a little shorter than the third; second, 

 third and fourth joints about equal in thickness. Rostrum with 

 the third joint shorter than the second. Body elongate. Thorax 

 with the lateral angles rounded, not prominent. Legs long ; 

 tarsi three-jointed, basal joint as long or longer than the others 

 together. 



1. ORNYTUS alternans. 



Coreus alternans, Hope, Cat. 24 (1842). 



a. Sierra Leone. Presented by the Rev. D. F. Morgan. 



2. ORNYTUS elongatus, n. s. PI. XIII. fig. 5. 



O. elongatus, supra testaceus, punctatus, subtus flavus; pectore 

 utrinque tuberculis 2 laevibus; antennarum articulo secundo 

 basi et apice annulo parvo nigro. $ , 

 Long. lin. 7- 



