THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 137 



INSECTS OF THE NORTHERN PARTS OF BRITISH AMERICA. 



COMPILED BY REV. C. J. S. BETHUNE, M. A. 



From Kirby's Fauna Boreali-Ame> icana : Insecta. 



(Continued from Vol. x., p. 118.) 



[275.] VI. HEMIPTERA. 



FAMILY PENTATOMID.E. 



3S3. Pentatoma carnifex Fain: — -Length of body 2^ lines. Sev- 

 eral specimens taken in the road from New York to Cumberland-house. 



Aery near P. oleracea, and probably its American representative. Body 

 black, a little bronzed ; grossly and thickly punctured, the punctures on 

 the upper surface the deepest. Head subtrapezoidal ; promuscis pale in 

 the middle ; antennae longer than the head ; prothorax wider than long, 

 with the lateral angles obtuse j signed with a sanguine cross, the arms of 

 which extend from angle to angle ; lateral margin, as well as that of the 

 hemelytra and abdomen, white ; scutellum longer than the thorax, obtuse 

 with a subtriangular sanguine spot on each side near the apex ; penulti- 

 mate ventral segment of the abdomen margined with white ; membrane 

 white. 



[276.] 3S4. Pentatoma variegata Kirby. — Length of body 3 

 lines. A single specimen taken in the road from New York fc 1 Cumber- 

 land-house. 



Upper surface of the body punctured. Head, excluding the prominent 

 eyes, subtrapezoidal, black, with the -margin below the eyes, white ; pro- 

 muscis extending to the base of the hind legs, pallid, black at the tip ; 

 antenna; black ; prothorax transverse with lateral angles obtuse ; pallid 

 with a tint of flesh-colour, especially at the angles, with a broad anterior 

 and narrow posterior black band, both abbreviated on each side, and the 

 latter almost divided into two ; scutellum an isosceles triangle, obtuse at 

 the apex, black with the lateral margin pallid ; hemelytra black with a 

 pallid lateral margin, membrane embrowned • underside of the trunk black 

 spotted with pallid and sanguine, punctured ; tibia; and apex of the thighs 



