HBMIPTBEA— HETEROPTERA. 



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distinct though, very short golden pubescence. Legs dark brown with the 

 coxae, trochanters, bases of femora, front and middle tarsi, hind tibiae, except 

 bases and apices, pale brown, shading to yellow ; the upper side of the hind 

 femur obscurely mottled with dull yellow giving the superficial appearance 



Text-pig. 4. — Riptortus tutuilensis, sp. n. : a, dorsal view of head, pronotum and scutellum ; 



b, hind leg. 



from above of a sub-apical pale annulation. Abdomen below greyish-yellow, 

 finely mottled with red and pale brown ; connexivum unicolorous, but with 

 base and apex of the fifth (fourth apj^arent) sternite towards lateral margin, 

 obscurely fuscous. Dorsum orange-brown, the sixth, seventh, eighth, and 

 ninth tergites darker brown ; connexivum brown, the fifth tergite with an 



