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Show 708 PROF. P. R. UHLER ON HEMIPTERA-HETEROPTERA [Nov. 21, wider anteriorly than the base of head, the anterior margin forming a collum, which is armed each side with an obliquely directed spine; posterior lobe wide and convex, carinate on tbe middle line, the posterior border deflexed, with the edge reflexed. Scutellum armed with a long, erect, curved spine. Corium long, impunctate, carried far along the border of the membrane, tender and translucent ; veins of membrane few, long, curved, not connected by cross-veins. Legs long and slender, the middle and posterior femora a little thickened towards the tip. Abdomen long, a little shorter than the wing-covers, subcylindric, contracted at base, tapering from the middle to the tip. PROTACANTHUS DECORUS, sp. nov. Pale tawny yellow, with the head black and highly polished, the collum of the pronotum white, the spines pale testaceous, and the abdomen greenish testaceous, polished and impunctate. Antennae yellowish, with the basal joints and tips of the following ones darker, the apical joint fuscous; rostrum pale yellow, darker at tip. Pronotum coarsely punctate, with the surface a little tumid behind on each side of the middle line; pleurae also punctate. Legs pale honey-yellow, a little darker on tips of femora, the tibiae annulated with black. Wing-covers whitish, translucent, the membrane hyaline. Length to tip of wing-covers 4 millim.; width of pronotum f mdlim. Two specimens of this interesting species were collected by Mr. H . H . Smith on low swampy land, in an open place, near sea at the south end of the island, September 27. Pam. LYGJEIDJE. T O M O P E L T A , gen. nov. Robust, oval, with both ends narrowed, opaque and pubescent above. Head short, set in as far as to the eyes, small, narrow, acutely triangular above ; antennae stout, about as long as the head, pronotum, and scutellum united, the basal joint longer than the head, the second joint a little longer than the third and sub-equal to the fourth, aU conspicuously pubescent; throat flat; the rostrum reaching between the middle coxae, basal joint as long as the throat. Pronotum distinctly bilobate, broad, the anterior lobe much wider than the head, longer than the posterior lobe, collarlike, one grade narrower and lower than the basal one, both arched, and with their lateral margin reflexed concurrently with the curve of each ; prosternum with an uneven longitudinal ridge on each side of the middle line ; the pleural pieces coarsely punctate, polished. The anterior femora fusiform, compressed. Scutellum longer than wide, abruptly acute at tip. Hemelytra coarsely punctate, pubescent, dull, the costal margins almost straight and parallel, a little sinuated on the middle; the costal area wide and grooved ; membrane AAlth the veins long and curved. |