Mr. A. G. Butler on the Genus Hemisphserius. 99 



less prominent : body testaceous ; tegmina piceous, with the 

 base, apex, costal border, two ill-defined spots placed trans- 

 versely on basal area, and two streaks (as in the preceding 

 species) on apical area testaceous ; the ground-colour towards 

 the margins on apical half blackish ; apical margin narrowly 

 black. 



Length 6 millimetres. 



Var. Tegmina wholly testaceous. 



Hab. Japan {Fortune). Type, B.M. 



Var.? Smoother than the preceding, sordid testaceous, the 

 pale testaceous markings obsolescent ; two subcostal black 

 spots towards apex of tegmina. 



Hab. South Japan {G. Lewis). B.M. 



XXVII. Tegmina blade, spotted with scarlet. 

 37. Hemispho&rius cruentatus, n. sp. PI. IV. fig. 22. 



Frons truncate-subconical, excavated at vertex, at its lower 

 extremity nearly as wide as it is long, almost smooth ; head 

 rather broad, scutellum nearly equilaterally triangular; tegmina 

 rather prominent at the shoulders, slightly rugulose, opaque : 

 body scarlet, legs stramineous ; tegmina black, shining, each 

 with three large rounded scarlet spots, the largest almost in 

 the centre, the second oval, on apical area, the smallest upon 

 the centre of the sutural line and almost in a transverse line 

 with the largest. 



Length 4^ millimetres. 



Hab. ? (from. Mr. Saunders 's collection). Type, B.M. 



This beautiful little species has more nearly the aspect of 

 a Coccinella than any other member of the genus. 



XXVIII. Tegmina vnicolorous, dark piceous, castaneous, or black. 



38. HemisphoBrms niger. 

 Hemispluerius niger, Walker, Journ. Linn. Soc. i. p. 155. n. 66 (1857). 

 Hab. Malacca {Wallace). Type, B.M. 



Walker gives no reason for inserting this species in his 

 paper on Bornean Homoptera. 



39. Hemisphcerius concolor. 



Hemisphcerius concolor, Walker, Journ. Linn. Soc. x. p. 131. n. 132 

 (1870). 



Hab. New Guinea ( Wallace) ; Java {E. India Company). 

 Type, B.M. 



Very like the preceding species ; but darker, with narrower 



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