HEMIPTERA. 469 



2. HYPSELOPUS cinctiventris. 



Hypselopus cincfciventris, Germ. Silb. Rev. Ent. v.152. 71 (1837). 

 a. S. Africa. 



3. HYPSELOPUS tripunctatus, n. s. 



H. fusco-griseus, fusco-punctatus ; scutello nigro, punctis 3 albis ; 



corpore subtus luteo, lateribus, lineaque media capitis et pec- 



toris nigra. ? . 

 Var. Supra subferrugineus, fusco-punctatus ; subtus luteus, la- 



teribus ferrugineis ; capite pectoreque linea media nigra. <? . 



Long. lin. 5. 



? . Head blackish, with a short oblique line on each side be- 

 fore the eyes, and a narrow longitudinal line on the vertex yel- 

 lowish. Thorax pale greyish brown, punctured with brown, 

 blackish in front, and with two yellowish spots near the middle 

 of the anterior margin. Scutellum black, thickly and finely 

 punctured, with a narrow line down the centre, and the lateral 

 margins pale brown ; a white point in each basal angle and an- 

 other at the apex. Coriaceous portion of the elytra greyish, 

 punctured with brown, and with rows of very close brown punc- 

 tures along the course of the nervures ; membrane transparent, 

 brownish. Wings transparent, iridescent. Abdomen above black, 

 with the sides red, and with a row of yellow spots down the 

 centre ; lateral margins black. Body beneath yellow. Abdomen 

 impunctate, with the sides black. Breast obscure, with the sides 

 and a line down the middle black. Head with a black line down 

 the middle. Anterior and intermediate legs testaceous ; poste- 

 rior legs short ; thighs blackish, testaceous at the base and on 

 the outside, with a row of fine denticulations beneath; tibiae 

 brown, pilose, with the inner margin denticulated throughout ; 

 tarsi testaceous. Rostrum testaceous, with the tip black. An- 

 tennae rather short, reddish fulvous, with the basal joint black- 

 ish, the apical joint dusky near the apex. 



The variety of the male is somewhat ferruginous above, punc- 

 tured with brown and with the pale spots, as above described ; 

 back of the abdomen red, with a row of yellow spots down the 

 centre ; body beneath yellow, with the sides reddish, and with a 

 black line down the middle of the head and breast ; antennae 

 ferruginous ; in other respects like the female. (Posterior legs 

 wanting.) 



a. South Africa. Presented by the Earl of Derby. 



