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indications here and there on the two examples in the collec- 

 tion. It is little more than half the size of S. hirida, from 

 which it may be distinguished by the shape of the head, the 

 longer tooth at the anterior angles of the pronotum, the 

 elevated portion of the same, and the entire puncturing. 



Family Asopidae. 



Picromerus Lewisi. 



Luteous, generally with a fuscous shade, caused by the 

 thick and irregular black puncturing ; head somewhat bronzy 

 in front. 



Head somewhat bronzy in front, with a more or less distinct 

 yellow streak between the base and the central lobe of the 

 face. Antennce reddish yellow ; first joint fuscous, apex of 

 the third and apical half of the fourth and fifth black. Ef/es 

 pitchy brown. Ocelli red. Bostrum yellowish, apical joint 

 brown. 



Thorax. — Pronohim in front frequently dark fuscous ; spines 

 pitchy black, frequently somewhat bronzy ; lateral margins 

 serrate ; disk in front with two slight callosities more or less 

 punctured, and with an irregular, slight, somewhat orange- 

 coloured central keel. Scutellum crenate punctate, more or 

 less clouded with dark fuscous, near the basal angles a small, 

 somewhat orange spot. Elytra : corium more finely punctured 

 than the pronotum. Membrane fuscous, nerves slightly darker, 

 inner basal angle with a pale triangular patch divided longi- 

 tudinally into two unequal portions by a slightly curved dark 

 fuscous streak, widest at the commencement, and extending 

 from the apex of the anterior margin to about the middle of 

 the base, where it curves round and joins the inner margin 

 below the pale triangle. Sternum yellowish or luteous, thickly 

 black-punctured. Legs yellow or luteous : thighs thickly 

 black-punctured ; upper, inner, and outer sides piceous, some- 

 what bronzy : tibia' yellow, with short black streaks at the 

 base and apex on the inner and outer sides : tarsi yellow, 

 apical joint black : claics reddish brown, apex black. 



Abdomen above black, very thickly and finely punctured ; 

 beneath yellowish or luteous, black-punctured here and tliere, 

 the punctures forming little irregular patches ; third, fourth, 

 fifth, and sixth segments with a dark bronzy triangular patch 

 in the centre, the last generally largest and more rliomboid in 

 shape. Connexivum black or slightly bronzy, finely crenate 

 yiunctate ; on each segment beyond the middle a round orange 



