Head cream-coloured and black. Antennæ about half the length of the insect. Thorax flesh-coloured; a large black spot occupying the middle, which is divided by a cream-coloured line. Scutellum shaped like a bell, black, surrounded with cream colour, and divided transversely by a line of the same colour. Hemelytra flesh-coloured, the extremities black. Beneath cream-coloured, with a great many black spots. Rostrum black, extending below the fore legs. Legs cream, streaked with black.
EDESSA VIRENS.
Plate [XLVI]. fig. 2.
Order: Hemiptera. Suborder: Heteroptera. Section: Geocorisa. Family: Scutati, Burm.
Genus. Edessa, Fabr. Centroproctus, Hahn. Cimex, Drury.
Edessa Virens. Obscure virescens, elytris fuscis margine externo pallido, pronoto lateribus utrinque in spinam longam rectam et acutam productis. (Long. Corp. 10½ lin.)
Syn. Cimex virens, Drury, App. vol. 3.
Edessa cervus? Fabr. Syst. Rh. 146. 2.
Habitat: Brazil.
Antennæ small, about two-thirds the length of the insect. Head, thorax, and scutellum dirty green; the latter large and triangular. The thorax on each side ends in very acute angles. Hemelytra brown, but were probably green when the insect was living. Beneath dirty green. Rostrum extending beyond the hinder legs.