56"& HEMIPTERA. 



the elytra thickly and rather strongly punctured, especially on 

 the clavus and in its neighbourhood, with a small streak at the 

 apex of the clavus, the basal portion of the outer margin, and a 

 large spot near the apex of the outer margin, white ; membrane 

 rudimentary, blackish brown. Abdomen beneath smooth, shining 

 and impunctate ; breast shining, thickly and finely punctured. 

 Legs pitchy ; tibiae and tarsi reddish. Rostrum very long, reach- 

 ing the middle of the abdomen, fulvous, with the base brownish. 

 Antennae pitchy ; last joint wanting. 



An immature specimen of this species has the entire ground- 

 colour brownish ferruginous, with the pale spots less distinct ; 

 the membrane in this specimen is developed, semitransparent, 

 brownish. 



a. N. Holland. Presented by the Entomological Club. 



24. RHYPAROCHROMUS ovalis, n. s. 



R. fuscus, elytris fusco-testaceis, fusco-punctatis ; pedibus luteis, 

 femoribus posticis et intermediis apice fuscis ; antennis fulvis, 

 articulo ultimo fusco, annulo ante medium albido. ? . 

 Long. lin. 2$. 



Head and thorax brown, somewhat ferruginous ; head im- 

 punctate ; eyes blackish. Thorax quadrate, a little wider behind 

 than in front, with the lateral margins indented in the middle ; 

 disc with a faint transverse impression about the middle ; the 

 anterior portion reddish brown, slightly convex, impunctate ; 

 the posterior portion brownish testaceous, punctured with brown. 

 Elytra ovate, wider than the thorax, testaceous, punctured with 

 brown, with a brown spot on the outer apical angle of the corium, 

 and another on the outer margin a short distance from the apex ; 

 membrane rudimentary, variegated with brown. Apex of the 

 abdomen reddish brown. Body beneath blackish brown ; breast 

 punctured. Legs yellow, with the apex of the intermediate and 

 posterior thighs blackish. Rostrum yellow, with the apex brown. 

 Antennae fulvous ; the last joint brownish, with a whitish ring 

 near the base. 



a. Columbia. From M. Goudot's Collection. 



II. Thorax narrowed in front, the anterior margin narrower than 

 the head. 



a. Lateral margins of the thorax reflexed. (BEOSUS, A. fy S.) 



25. RHYPAROCHROMUS luscus. 



Lygseus luscus, Fab. E. S. iv. 165. 103 (1794) fy S. R. 231. 133 

 (1803) ; Wolff, Ic. dm. 145. t. 14. fig. 139 (1804). 



