Syn. Cimex umbrosus, Drury, App. vol. 3.

Habitat: Brazil.

Head and thorax dark orange, the latter with three longitudinal streaks of a darker colour. Antennæ dark orange and black, the last articulation orange. Scutellum triangular, and dark brown. Hemelytra striated with dark orange and brown, the extremities being of a bronze-colour and glossy. Abdomen darker than the other parts. Rostrum extending to the middle legs. Legs orange-brown, the hinder ones having the thighs and tibiæ serrated.

HAMMATOCERUS CONSPICILLARIS.

Plate [XLV]. fig. 8.

Order: Hemiptera. Suborder: Heteroptera. Section: Geocorisa. Family: Reduviidæ, Leach.

Genus. Hammatocerus, Burm. Hammacerus, Laporte. Cimex, Drury.

Hammatocerus Conspicillaris. Niger, elytris basi albis, maculâ irregulari nigrâ, abdominis marginibus rubro-maculatis. (Long. Corp. 1 unc. 1½ lin.)

Syn. Cimex conspicillaris, Drury, App. vol. 3. Laporte Hemipt. p. 79. Burmeister Hem. p. 236. 2.

Habitat: Brazil.