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Show 1878.] HEMIPTERA OF ST. HELENA. 475 utrinque pone ocellos), pronoti margine antico maculis 7, 3 intermediis elongatis magnis transversis in fasciam scepe confiuentibus, disco fascia transversa abbreviata, limbo postico, necnon macula parva utrinque ad angulos laterales, scutelli macula elongata utrinque ad basin, elytrorum maculis plurimis subquadratis arei-formibus, sterno abdomineque nigris ; sterni lateribus, abdominis segmentis 6° et genitalibus (his nigro-signatis) pedibusque brunneo-testaceis ; femoribus anticis et intermediis supra, posticis totis (basi apiceque exceptis), tibiis posticis magnam ad partem, tarsis anticis et intermediis ad apicem, posticorum apicibus articulorum omnium, unguiculis oculisque nigro-brunneis; alis nigro fuscis nigro-venosis; elytris areis apicalibus marginalibus nigro-mar-ginatis 6 instructis. cS 2 • Long. 3-41, lat. l|-2 m, m. Hab. in excelsioribus insulae, ad " Diana's Peak." In stature and general colouring rather like the preceding, but distinguished at first sight by the much more numerous markings. Vertex more obtusely rounded in front and less prominent. Elytra with the veins scarcely distinguishable, covered with many somewhat square-shaped cell-like black markings, arranged in longitudinal rows. Apex of the elytron with six marginal cells, of which the first and the last are the largest. Venation of the wing different from what it is in A. alticola. There are four apical cells bounded by a peripherical vein as in that species ; but the second cell (counting the apical as the first) is pedunculate, the peduncle joining the first and second sectors; and at the base of the fourth cell is a smaller cell formed by a transverse vein cutting off the base of the fourth cell. The venation is otherwise normal, but rather subject to variation. The elytra have sometimes obscure pale markings on the inner margin of the clavus, and vary also in the intensity of the black markings of the pronotum and scutellum. 27. GRYPOTES (?) INSULARIS, sp. n. G. aurantio-fiavescens, nitidus; verticis macula sub quadrata utrinque anterius et macula posterius prope oculos, frontis lineolis transversis in medio interruptis, clypei vitta centrali ad apicem dilatata, lororum marginibus, linea ante et macula pone antennas, maculaque ante oculos brunneis vel pallide brunneis; vertice utrinque linea obliqua brevi, pedibus maculis nonnullis, abdominis dorso, et corpore subtus maculis paucis nigris ; scutello, abdominis dorsi lateribus, et corpore subtusflavescentibus; elytrorum margine antico late et venis, necnon valvulis genitalibus fiavescenti-albidis; membrana dilutissimefusca. cS 2 • Long. 5 m. m. Hab. in editioribus insulae, ad " West Lodge." Perhaps scarcely correctly placed in Grypotes. Head, seen from above, angularly rounded and prominent between the eyes ; as long as the hind margin between the eyes ; broadly concave and with a fine impressed middle line; ocelli near the eyes ; face very convex, and clvpeus produced but scarcely curved; pronotum a little broader than JV 31* |