HABITAT: Coast of Coromandel (_Drury_). "In Americæ insulis" (_Fabr._ haud recte). Head and antennæ black. Thorax red and margined, having a black triangular spot situated near the head. Base of the scutellum black, the hinder part and sides being red. Hemelytra red, the extremities black. Abdomen red. Rostrum short, extending only to the fore legs. Beneath black, edged with red. Legs black. The specific name, Afer, given to this insect, although having the priority in point of date over that of Fabricius, is so completely inappropriate that I have not hesitated in adopting the latter. PENTATOMA PULCHELLA. Plate XLVI. fig. 8. ORDER: Hemiptera. SUBORDER: Heteroptera. SECTION: Geocorisa. FAMILY: Pentatomidæ. GENUS. PENTATOMA, _Latreille_. Cimex, _Fabr. Drury_. PENTATOMA PULCHELLA. Sanguinea, supra coeruleo nigra, fasciis duabus sanguineis, anticâ arcuatâ, antennis pedibusque nigris. (Long. Corp. 10 lin.) SYN. Cimex pulchellus, _Drury_, _App. vol._ 3. _Stoll_, _pl._ 5. _fig._ 30. _&_ _pl._ 21. _fig._ 142. Cimex concentricus, _Klug, Burmeister Hemipt._ 365. 5. HABITAT: Bay of Honduras (_Drury_). Para (_Burmeister_). Guiana (_J. O. W._). Head flesh-coloured. Antennæ black. Thorax dark blue, the angulated corners red. Scutellum scarlet, with a dark blue band crossing it near the middle, and two small blue spots adjoining to the thorax. Hemelytra, next the thorax red, below which is a broad dark blue band crossing them, and a narrow scarlet one beneath it; the remainder being dark blue. Rostrum black, extending below the hinder legs. Abdomen scarlet at the base, with two rows of white streaks; the extremity next the anus dark blue. Legs black. {68}SPHÆROCORIS ANNULUS. Plate XLVI. fig. 9. ORDER: Hemiptera. SUBORDER: Heteroptera. SECTION: Geocorisa. FAMILY: Pentatomidæ. GENUS. SPHÆROCORIS, _Burmeister_. Tetyra, _Fabr._ Cimex, _Drury_. SPHÆROCORIS ARGUS. Lutea, guttis 15 pallidis sive rubris nigro-cinctis. (Long. Corp. lin. 4.) SYN. Cimex annulus, _Fabr. Ent. Syst._ 4. 82. 10. _Syst. Rh._ 132. 20. (Tetyra A.) Cimex Argus, _Drury_, _App. vol._ 3. (nec _Fabr. Syst. Rh._ 533.) _Stoll Cim._ _pl._ 7. _fig._ 50. Sphærocoris Argus, _Burmeister Hemipt._ 391. _No._ 2? Scutellera gibbosa, _Pal. Beauv. Ins. d'Afr. et d'Amer. Hemipt._ _pl._ 5. b. _f._ 3. HABITAT: Sierra Leone. Head dark cream colour, with two black lines from the front to the hinder part. Thorax dark cream, with two waved bands crossing it from side to side, of a darker colour. Scutellum very large, and entirely covering the abdomen. This part is high and rounded, of the same colour with the rest of the insect, having a number of oval, circular, and other shaped marks thereon. Beneath dark-cream; breast and fore-part lightest. Rostrum extending below the hinder legs, all of which are of the same dark cream colour with the other parts.