Plate [XLVI]. fig. 6.
Order: Hemiptera. Suborder: Heteroptera. Section: Geocorisa. Family: Pentatomidæ.
Genus. Pentatoma, Latreille. Cimex, Fabr. Drury.
Pentatoma Regia. Lutea; capite, pronoti maculis duabus oblongis, scutelli basi, elytrorum maculâ centrali membranâque apicali nigris. (Long. Corp. lin 7½.)
Syn. Cimex regius, Drury, App. vol. 3.
Pentatoma catena var. vel sexus alter? Drury, in text.
Habitat: Brazil.
The principal difference between this insect and Pent. catena, is two black spots on the flesh-coloured part of the hemelytra; the scutellum not having the black part divided by the cream-coloured line, and the under part of the insect being rather more spotted than that.
ASPONGOPUS JANUS.
Plate [XLVI]. fig. 7.