HEMIPTERA HETEROPTERA. 533 



Black, shining, convex, regularly elliptical. Head slightly rugnlose 

 on each side. Eyes pioeous. Antenna; tawny. Thorax and scutellum 

 very finely punctured, the former smooth in front. Legs stout ; tibiae 

 thickly spinose; tarsi pale yellow. Fore wings rather more finely punctured 

 than the thorax ; membrane colourless. Length of the body 2 lines. 



It much resembles JB. pallidicornis, but is rather smaller and the 

 antenna; are of one colour. The colourless membrane will distinguish it 

 from 2E. maurus, and its broader form from JE. pygmceus and from 

 /E. apicalis. 



a. Ceylon. Presented by Dr. Thwaites. 



JSthus scitus. 



Niger, glaber ; caput utrinque subimpressum ; antenna rufescentes ; thorax 

 transverse bilinealum, iinea antica punctata ; scutellum rarissime 

 punctatum : pedes picei, larsis fulvis ; aim anliccc picece, membrana 

 albido hyalina fuscescenle strigata. 



Black, elliptical, smooth, rather flat. Head slightly impressed on each 

 side. Rostrum piceous, extending to the middle tibiae, reddish towards the 

 base. Antennae reddish; third joint shorter than the second and than the 

 fourth ; fifth a little shorter than the fourth. Thorax with a slight trans- 

 verse line accompanied by punctures and parallel to a more slight hinder 

 line. Scutellum very thinly punctured. Legs piceous, rather slender ; 

 tibia; setose ; tarsi tawny. Fore wings piceous ; membrane whitish hyaline, 

 with some brownish streaks. Length of the body 3 lines. 



a. St. Domingo. From Mr. Tweedie's collection. 



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ACATALECTUS LTJTEOM ARGIXATUS. 



luteomarginatus, Vollenh. Pent. 19, pi. 2, f. 9. 

 Timor. Flores. New South Wales. 



ACATALECTUS CLARUS. 



Niger, sparse et subtiiiter punctatus ; capitis thoracisque lalera subsclosa ; 

 caput vix punctatum, laleribus anticis subreflexis ; thorax transverse 

 sulcatus, lateribus anticis glabris, plagis duabus poslicis ferrugineis ; 

 scutellum fcrrugineo tenuiter marginatum, basi gtabrum ; pedes picei, 

 femoribus subdentalis ; alee antica picece, membrana pellucida. 



Black, elliptical, rather flat. Sides of the head and of the thorax with 

 a few bristles. Head hardly punctured ; sides and fore border very 

 slightly reflexed. Eyes, rostrum, antenna; and legs piceous. Rostrum 

 extending to the middle coxa?. Joints of the antennae from the first to the 

 fourth successively increasing in length. Thorax thinly and minutely 

 punctured, smooth, except on each side in front of a transverse middle 

 furrow; a ferruginous patch on each hind angle. Scutellum rather thiuly 

 punctured, smooth at the base, with a narrow ferruginous border on each 

 side. Legs stout ; femora slightly dentate beneath; tibiae spinose. Fore 

 wings piceous, more thickly punctured than the thorax, with two veins near 



