HEMIPTERA. 495 



5. GONOCERUS ? pugnator. 



Coreus pugnator, Fab. E. S. iv. 130. 13 (1794) $ S. R. 197. 26 

 (1803). 



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



6. GONOCERUS alternatus, n. s. 



G. supra testaeeus, fusco-punctatus ; thorace antice fulvo, punctis 

 2 nigris, postice acute spinoso, fusco ; abdominis marginibus 

 luteo fuscoque variis; corpore subtus pallide luteo, punctis 

 nigris. ? . 

 Long. lin. 3. 



Above testaceous, thickly and finely punctured with brown. 

 Head and anterior portion of the thorax yellow, the latter with 

 two black points ; posterior portion of the thorax brown ; lateral 

 angles acutely spinous, serrated posteriorly, blackish. Membrane 

 of the elytra brownish, semitransparent. Back of the abdomen 

 orange-red, with the margins orange banded with brown. Body 

 beneath yellow ; abdomen with two rows of minute black points 

 down the centre, and a row of larger ones on each side. Breast 

 thickly and finely punctured, with three black points on each 

 side. Legs pale fulvous testaceous. Rostrum yellow, with the 

 tip black. Antennae with the first two joints dark brown ; third 

 and fourth wanting. 



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



7. GONOCERUS acutus, n. s. 



G. fusco-testaceus, fusco-punctatus, subtus flavescens, abdomine 

 seriebus sex punctorum nigrorum; thorace acute spinoso; 

 abdominis marginibus albidis, immaculatis. ? . 

 Long. lin. 4. 



Brownish testaceous, thickly and finely punctured with brown. 

 Head with a narrow longitudinal impressed line in the centre. 

 Thorax with a narrow impunctate line down the centre ; lateral 

 angles acutely spinous, with the tips of the spines blackish. 

 Membrane of the elytra brownish, semitransparent. Back of the 

 abdomen reddish, with the sides blackish ; the margins yellowish 

 white. Abdomen beneath yellow, impunctate, with six rows of 

 black points. Breast very thickly and finely punctured, with 

 three blackish points on each side. Legs somewhat fulvous. 

 Rostrum fulvous, with the tip black. Antennae concolorous. 

 basal joint granulose ; last joint wanting. 



a. Philippine Islands. From Mr. Cuming's Collection. 



