Head red. Eyes, neck, and antennæ black. Thorax cream-coloured, edged in front with black, having two small black spots on the shoulders, and two larger on the hinder part, which are continued on the front of the scutellum, which is large and triangular; the tip being cream colour, the middle having a broad black band crossing it and the hemelytra, which are cream-coloured at the base, the hinder part being black. Beneath red, with small black spots along the sides. Rostrum long and black, extending below the hinder legs. Thighs red, the tibiæ and tarsi black. PENTATOMA RUTILANS. Plate XLVI. fig. 5. ORDER: Hemiptera. SUBORDER: Heteroptera. SECTION: Geocorisa. FAMILY: Pentatomidæ. GENUS. PENTATOMA, _Latreille_. Cimex, _Fabr. Drury_. PENTATOMA RUTILANS. Cyanea aut viridi ænea, pronoti fasciâ transversâ anticâ, scutelli apice elytrorumque basi internè sanguineis, abdomine sanguineo maculis marginalibus pedibusque nigris. (Long. Corp. 1 unc. 3 lin.) SYN. Edessa rutilans, _Fabr. Syst. Rh._ 151. 25. Cimex anchorago, _Drury_, _App. vol._ 3. (nec _Fabr. Ent. Syst._ 4. 86. 25.) HABITAT: Sierra Leone. Head dark blue. Antennæ black. Thorax deep shining mazarine blue, the fore part with a scarlet transverse streak. Scutellum triangular, appearing swelled in the fore part, which is of a dark greenish blue, the hinder part being scarlet, and continued along the edges up to the shoulders. Hemelytra dark blueish green. Abdomen scarlet, edged with dark blue spots. Rostrum black, extending to the hinder legs. Beneath deep yellowish flesh-colour, spotted on the sides with blue. Legs black. PENTATOMA REGIA. 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. {67}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. ORDER: Hemiptera. SUBORDER: Heteroptera. SECTION: Geocorisa. FAMILY: Pentatomidæ. GENUS. ASPONGOPUS, _Lap. Burm._ Edessa, _Fabr._ Cimex, _Drury_. ASPONGOPUS JANUS. Niger, supra ruber; capite, pronoti maculâ anticâ, scutelli basi, membranâque nigris. (Long. Corp. 10 lin.) SYN. Cimex Janus, _Fabr. Ent. Syst._ 4. 107. 105. _Syst. Rhyng._ 151. 23. (Edessa J.) _Stoll Cim._ 2. _t._ 6. _f._ 41. _Wolff. Cim._ 1. 13. _t._ 2. _f._ 13. _Burmeister Hemipt._ _p._ 352. 3. (Aspongopus J.) Cimex Afer, _Drury_, _App. vol._ 3.