HEMIPTERA. 515 



9. CLAVIGRALLA ? hoploxys, n. s. 



C. ferrugineo-fusca, punctata; elytrorum corio testaceo ; capite 



antice bispinoso, ocellis distantibus; humeris acute spinosis, 



spinis nigris, antice porrectis. S . 



Long. lin. 5. 



Head and thorax ferruginous brown. Head finely granulated, 

 with a small spine on each side close to the insertion of the an- 

 tennae. Eyes brown ; ocelli large, distant, prominent. Thorax 

 thickly punctured, with the lateral angles produced into long 

 acute black spines, which are directed forwards and a little up- 

 wards, with their apices turned outwards. Scutellum pale brown, 

 rather coarsely punctured, with the tip white. Coriaceous por- 

 tion of the elytra testaceous, brownish towards the base, rather 

 thickly punctured, with a brown interrupted line on the apical 

 margin ; membrane brownish, semitransparent, with a few brown 

 marks on the nervures. Abdomen above orange, with a small 

 spine on each side at the posterior angle of each segment ; ab- 

 domen beneath orange, thickly covered with minute whitish hairs. 

 Thighs ferruginous; anterior and intermediate pairs with two 

 minute spines beneath near the apex ; posterior pair with two 

 strong spines beneath near the apex, with the interval between 

 them and the posterior margin of the apical spine denticulated ; 

 tibiae pale fulvous ; tarsi testaceous. Rostrum testaceous, with 

 the tip black. Antennae ferruginous, with the apical joint brown- 

 ish, obscure, clothed with short pale hairs ; first joint granulose. 

 a. Gambia. From Mr. Shuckard's Collection. 



Genus 18. ACANTHOCORIS. 



Coreus, p., Fab. Ent. Syst. iv. (1794) fy Syst. Rh. (1803). 

 Crinocems, p., Burm. Handb. ii. (1835); H. Sch. Wanz. vi. (1842) 



&ix. 238 (1850) & 253 (1851). 

 Acanthocoris, Am. fy Serv. Hem. 213 (1843). 



* Third joint of the antennas cylindrical. 



1. ACANTHOCORIS scabrator. 



Coreus scabrator, Fab. S. R. 195. 19 (1803). 

 Crinocems scabrator, Burm. Handb. ii. 319. 4 (1835). 

 Crinocems scabripes, H. Sch. Wanz. vi. 18. t. 186. f. 574 (1842). 

 Acanthocoris scabrator, Am. fy Serv. Hem. 214. 1 (1843). 



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



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



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

 d. . Presented by General Thomas Hardwicke. 



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