HEMIPTERA— HETEROPTERA. 



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38. Orthaea puberula, sp. n. (Text-figs. 18 and 19). 



Colour.— Read black, shining, with a ratlier scanty, short pale tomentose 

 pubescence at apex and at base around ocelli and a few scattered erect hairs ; 

 rostrum fulvous yelloAv, its apex black and basal segment infuscate, covered 

 with moderately long erect hairs ; antennae fulvous yellow, fourth segment 

 more or less infuscate, sparsely covered with moderately long erect hairs. 

 Anterior lobe of pronotum dull black covered with a sparse tomentose silvery 

 pubescence which becomes much more dense along the middle line and along 

 lateral margins ; anterior collar ferruginous ; posterior lobe dull ferruginous 

 brown, more or less evenly covered with the silvery pubescence ; humeral 

 angles dull yellow. Propleura dull black, posterior margin and posterior lateral 

 angles ferruginous. Scutellum dull black sparsely covered with short silvery 

 hairs and moderately long erect hairs the lateral margins of the apical half - 

 dark ferruginous brown. Meso- and meta-pleura dull black, acetabulae and 

 posterior margins and posterior lateral angle of metapleuron, ferruginous. 

 Hemielytra fulvous yellow the costal margin rather paler, an obscure dark 

 brown stripe down clavus and a pair of longitudinal dark brown stripes oh 

 apical half of corium, the outer one widening posteriorly and reaching the 

 apical margin of the corium ; hemielytra covered with short erect hairs arising 

 from dark brown punctures. Membrane pallid with some obscure pale fuscous 

 longitudinal stripes between the veins. Legs fulvous yellow, the coxae, bases 

 of anterior femora and claws, ferruginous brown. Venter dark ferruginous 

 brown, shading to black in an obscure broad longitudinal lateral stripe down 

 each side and in a longitudinal stripe down the ovipositor. 



Structure. — Head about five-sixths as long as broad across eyes (26 : 30) ; 

 rostrum extending to middle of mesosternum, the basal segment reaching to 

 middle of eye ; first antennal segment extending by about one-third its length 

 beyond apex of head ; relative lengths of antennal segments, 14 : 24 : 18 : 26 ; 

 vertex relatively broad and distinctly concave ; eyes rather small not prominent, 

 width of vertex between their inner margins exactly three-fifths of the total 

 width of head across eyes (18 : 30) ; oceHi three times as far from one another 

 as from, the eyes (12 : 4). Anterior lobe of pronotum less than two-thirds as 

 long in middle as wide at its posterior margin (20 : 34), and about five-sevenths 

 as wide at the well-developed anterior collar as at its posterior margin ; sides 

 convex, widest part well below the middle ; posterior lobe of pronotum rather 



