474 HEMIPTERA. 



Head with a small black spot close to each ocellus. Thorax with 

 the lateral margins finely serrated ; lateral angles spinous, spines 

 black ; posterior margin obtusely 5-dentate. Coriaceous portion 

 of the elytra more strongly punctured than the rest of the sur- 

 face, with the nervures smooth and elevated ; membrane trans- 

 parent, brownish. Abdomen above orange-red ; with the mar- 

 gins yellow, with one or two black spots. Abdomen beneath im- 

 punctate ; sides yellow ; disc brown, with a broad longitudinal 

 yellow line at the base. Breast opaque ; antepectus punctured ; 

 a broad yellow band, interrupted at the sutures of the segments, 

 runs on each side from the apex of the head to the posterior 

 angles of the breast. Anterior and intermediate legs concolorous 

 with the body, with the tips of the tarsi pitchy ; posterior thighs 

 elongated, much thickened, brown, pilose, darker and granulose 

 on the outside, with a row of small spines beneath ; posterior 

 tibiae curved, brown, black at the tips; posterior tarsi brown, 

 with the tips blackish. Rostrum not passing the intermediate 

 coxae, brownish, with the apical joint black. Antennae brown ; 

 second and third joints paler than the first, with the tip of the 

 third blackish ; last joint wanting. 

 a. Brazil. 



14. ALYDUS ventralis. 



Alydns ventralis, Hope, Cat. 20 (1842). 



a. Bombay. Presented by Walter Elliott, Esq. 



b. N. Bengal. From Lieut. Campbell's Collection. 



c. India. From Archdeacon Clerk's Collection. 



15. ALYDUS serripes. 



Lygseus serripes, Fab. E. S. iv. 143. 30 (1/94). 

 Alydus serripes, Fab. S. R. 249. 5 (1803). 

 a. New Holland. 



16. ALYDUS scutellaris, n. s. 



A. pallide fuscus, punctatus, scutello luteo, lateribus fuscis ; 

 thorace inermi ; elytris testaceis ; abdomine subtus luteo, linea 

 utrinque longitudinali fusca; pectoris fascia utrinque, meta- 

 sterno, tuberculisque 2 minutis postpectoris, luteis. $ . 

 Long. lin. 5. 



Head and thorax reddish brown, sparingly clothed with fine 

 short hairs. Head with a more or less distinct yellowish longi- 

 tndinal line near the apex, and with a black point close to each 

 ocellus. Thorax thickly and finely punctured, with a transverse 

 impression near the anterior margin; anterior portion of the 

 lateral margins edged with black ; lateral angles unarmed, pos- 



