{65}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. LARGUS LINEOLA. Plate XLVI. fig. 3. ORDER: Hemiptera. SECTION: Geocorisa. FAMILY: Lygæidæ, _Leach_. GENUS. LARGUS, _Hahn._ Euryopthalmus, _Laporte_. Cimex, _Drury_. LARGUS LINEOLA. Ferrugineo-niger, profunde punctatus, pronoto postice luteo, membranâ albido-cinereâ fusco venosâ limbo fusco. (Long. Corp. 6 lin.) SYN. Cimex Lineola, _Linn. Syst. Nat._ _p._ 721. _No._ 52. Cimex punctatus, _De Geer Mem._ _pl._ 34. _fig._ 17. 18. Cimex humilis, _Drury_, _App. vol._ 3. _Hahn._ _Wanzen. Art. Ins._ _t._ 2. _f._ 6. (Largus h.) _Stoll_, _tab._ 27. _fig._ 265. Euryopth. puncticollis, _Laporte Hemipt._ 38. 4. Lygæus Mutilis. _Perty Del. Art. Braz._ _pl._ 34. _f._ 9. HABITAT: Brazil. Head black. Antennæ small and black, and about half the length of the insect. Thorax black in front, orange behind; with many minute black spots, the under part being edged with cream. Scutellum triangular, small and black. Hemelytra black at the base: white at the extremities. Abdomen black, edged with cream both above and beneath. Rostrum black, extending to the hinder legs, all of which are black likewise. {66}PENTATOMA SPECTABILIS. Plate XLVI. fig. 4. ORDER: Hemiptera. SUBORDER: Heteroptera. SECTION: Geocorisa. FAMILY: Pentatomidæ. GENUS. PENTATOMA, _Latreille_. Cimex, _Fabr. Drury_. PENTATOMA SPECTABILIS. Capite rufescenti postice nigro, pronoto albido, antice maculisque duabus posticis nigris, scutello et corio albidis fasciâ latâ communi membranâque apicali nigris. (Long. Corp. 7½ lin.) SYN. Cimex spectabilis, _Drury_, _App. vol._ 3. HABITAT: Brazil.