HEMIPTERA. 573 



36. RHYPAROCHROMUS consutus. 



Pachymerus consutus, Germ. Silb. Rev. Ent. v. 139. 44 (1837). 

 a. S. Africa. Presented by Dr. Andrew Smith. 



37. RHYPAROCHROMUS pallicornis, n. s. 



R. capite, thorace, pectore scuteiloque nigris, thorace postice 

 piceo punctis 4 fulvis ; elytris ochreis fusco-punctatis et va- 

 riegatis, corio apice nigro; antennis fulvo-testaceis, articulo 

 ultimo apice obscuro. ? , 

 Long. lin. 3. 



Elongate. Head rather wider than the anterior margin of the 

 thorax, black, opaque, very closely and minutely punctured, with 

 the tip of the central lobe reddish. Thorax very little longer 

 than its width at the base, strongly constricted about the mid- 

 dle, with the posterior lobe considerably wider than the anterior ; 

 anterior lobe black, very finely but sparingly punctured, with a 

 transverse impressed line close to the reddish anterior margin, 

 the lateral margins with a slightly raised line; posterior lobe 

 pitchy brown, finely punctured, with four fulvous points, namely 

 a very distinct one on each lateral margin, and two, less distinct, 

 on the disc. Scutellum black, finely punctured, with the extreme 

 tip fulvous. Coriaceous portion of the elytra ochreous, finely 

 punctured with brown, with a small brown spot near the base, 

 and an irregular band of brown spots across the disc behind the 

 middle ; a large pale patch, punctured with brown, comes imme- 

 diately behind this band, and the apex has a large black patch ; 

 membrane brownish ochreous, opaque; its base spotted with 

 brown, with the nervures whitish. Abdomen beneath pitchy red. 

 Breast black, finely punctured. Anterior thighs black, with the 

 apex fulvous ; posterior yellow at the base, blackish at the apex ; 

 intermediate wanting; tibiae and tarsi fulvous. Rostrum pale 

 brown, with the base and apex pitchy. Antennas fulvous testa- 

 ceous, with the apical joint dusky, whitish at the base, 

 a. E. Indies. From Mr. Wooley's Collection. 



38. RHYPAROCHROMUS gutta, n. s. 



R. capite, thorace antice, pectore scuteiloque nigris, thorace pos- 

 tice piceo ; ely trorum corio testaceo, fusco-punctato, margine 

 apicali fusco, gutta alba in angulo interno ; membrana fusca, 

 nervis plagaque magna media, albidis. ? . 

 Long. lin. 2i. 



Elongate. Head black, thickly and minutely punctured, 

 broader than the anterior margin of the thorax. Ocelli red. 

 Thorax about as long as the width of its base, strongly con- 



