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Show 204 PROP. P. R. UHLER ON T H E [Mar. 6 Collected on the Mount Gay estate, August 21-31, September 11-29, and October 7, on low grounds and hillsides up to 400 feet, beaten from herbage; also at St. George's, September 29, on herbage. The description is chiefly derived from the dark and mature specimens. Some of these vary in marking, as well as in breadth of hemelytra, especially in the amount of dark brown on the membrane. This colour sometimes occupies the whole base and end of this part of the hemelytra, and leaves a curved whitish band or uneven spot between the two patches of colour. CORYTHUCA, Stal. CORYTHUCA DECENS, Stal. Tingis decens, Stal, Stettin, ent. Zeit. xxiii. p. 324. A few specimens were found on the Mount Gay estate, October 16, on low herbage. PHYMATIDJE. PHYMATA, Latr. PHYMATA ANGULATA, sp. nov. Pale fulvous (no doubt green when alive), narrow, marked with rich dark brown on the pronotum, hemelytra, and sides of abdomen. Head of medium length and width, regularly narrowing towards the tip, the tip triangularly emarginate with the two processes short and subacute, the surface granulated, longitudinally and deeply depressed, with a curved, anteriorly tapering ridge each side conspicuously granulated, which carries the ocelli, the occiput truncated and sharpe-edged; eyes of medium prominence; the antennae long, with the apical joint ( 3 ) much longer than the three others united, ( 2 ) only about one and a half times as long as the third, usually infuscated on the apical half; cheeks granulated in broken rows, neck remotely granulated. Prouotum pale fulvo-testaceous (when less mature pale testaceous), stained with pale brown across the base, on the lobes of the posterior division, and forming a diagonal spot on the side of the anterior lobes ; the anterior division granulated, with the side-lobes subtriangular, a little curved, pale, bordered with granules ; the posterior division coarsely punctate, marked off laterally by a deep emargination, followed by a long lamellar wing, which is deeply emarginate on the end, acutely produced at the posterior angle and more triangularly at the anterior angle, which also carries a slender diagonal carina; carinate lines of the disk spreading wider apart posteriorly, all the raised lines granulated ; the humero-posterior margin reflexed, white, slightly oblique, broadly sinuated, with the inner angles produced over the clavus. Scutellum pale brown, more closely granulated at base, the middle carina marked with a whitish tip. Corium and clavus more or less dark brown, sprinkled with remote, minute, yellow granules, the veins and costal margin pale yellowish; membrane dark brown with a brassy tinge. |
