HEMIPTERA HETEROPTERA. 
4‘23 
23. Edessa trifurca. 
Prasina, subtus pallide testacea ; anlennce fulvce, apices versus nigrcB ; 
thorax aspere punctatus, margine liturisque anlicis Iransversis pallide 
teslaceis, angulis posticis vix cornutis ; scutellum margine antico 
villaquc trifurcata testaceis ; abdomen apice vix spinosum ; pectus 
viridi strigatum ; venter vitta strigisque transversis fuscis; aloe 
anticce rufce, aptid cos tarn testacece. 
Grass-green. Head beneath and pectus pale testaceous. Eyes tes- 
taceous. Antennae tawny, ininulely setulose ; second joint rather more 
than half the length of the third; fourth black, pale testaceous towards the 
base, longer than the third ; fifth wanting. Thorax roughly and thinly 
punctured, with some smooth transverse pale testaceous marks in front and 
with a pale testaceous slightly elevated rim on each side in front; hind 
angles prominent, hardly horned, forming slightly rounded right angles. 
Scutellum testaceous along the fore border, with a testaceous stripe, which 
emits an oblique branch on each side, and with a pale testaceous slightly 
rounded tip. Pectus with transverse pale green streaks on each side. 
Abdomen beneath with a brown stripe, which is abbreviated hindward, and 
with transverse brown streaks and with brown sutures ou each side; hind 
angles of the segments acute ; those of the last segment slightly elongated. 
Le^s testaceous. Fore wings red, thickly and minutely punctured, tes- 
taceous along the costa; a slight oblique pale testaceous streak in the 
disk; membrane ajneoiis-brown. Length of the body 7 lines. 
Much resembles E.fasciata, but the hind angles of the thorax are 
less acute. 
a. Mexico, Orizaba. From M. Salle’s collection. 
West Indies. 
24. Edessa Acantharis. 
Cimex Acantharis, Linn. Sgst. Nat. i. 710; Brown, Jarnaic. 434, pi. 44, 
f. 11. Sulz. Gesch. Ins. 96, pi. 10, f. 8. 
Jamaica. Brazil. 
South America. 
25. Edessa couxuta, C. II. 319. 
a. Para. From Mr. Bates’ collection. 
b. Tapavos. From Mr. Bates’ collection. 
c. d. Ainazon Kegion. Presented by W. W. Saunders, Fsq. 
e. Archidona. From Mr. Stevens’ collection. 
26. Edessa Ceevus, C . II. 320. 
a. Columbia. From M. Goudol’s collection. 
b—d. Brazil. From Mr. Mornay’s collection. 
e—g. Brazil. Presented by W. W. Saunders, Esq. 
h, i. Brazil. 
/, k. Cayenne. Presented by \V. M . Saunders, Es(|. 
V. Amazon Kegion. Presented by W. W. Saunders, Em|. 
