104. SCUTATINA. 



although if I had not doue so, it now turns out, from your remark, 

 the verification of De Geer's observation (which I had never seen) 

 would not have been made." 



Species 2. — Acanthosoma dentatum. 



CiMEX DBNTATUS, De G. Mem. iii, 2G0, 7 (1773). 



— H/EMAGASTEK, Schrlc. Eiiiim. Iiis. Aust. 270, 520 (1781). 



— LiTUBATUS, Fab. E. S. iv, 114, 131 (1791) ; S. 11. 170, 8-4 (1S03) ; 



Fall. Hem. Suec. 24, 4 (1829); ZelL Ins. Lap. 

 259, 3 (1840). 



— coLLARis, Fab. S. U. 170, 83 (1803). 

 Pentatoma Stolli, Le P. et Serv. Euc. x, 53, 2 (1825). 

 AcANXUOSOMA H.EMATOGASTEU, Bum. Hanb. ii, 360,4(1835); Koleii. 



Mel. Eut. iv, 59, 187 (1816). 



— H.EMAGASTEU, H. Schf. Nom. Ent. i, 57 (1835) ; Sahib. 



Geoc. Een. 32, 1 (1848). 



— DENTATUM, Ball. Trans. Eat. Soc. i, n. s. Ill, 2 (1851) ; 



Curt. Traus. Ent. Soc. i, n. s. 271, 2 

 (1852) ; Flor, Rhyn. Liv. i, 101, 2 (1860). 

 Elasmostethus dentatus, Fieb. Europ. Hem. 328, 1 (1861). 



Elliptic, angulated in front, slightly shining, finely black-punctured, 

 ochreous or greenish on i\iG pronoUi/m and corium, with the hinder 

 sides of the pronotum, the clavus, and the inner and posterior 

 margins of the corium, broadly blood-red ; abdomen above black ; 

 coniiexivum yellow, the last segment and in the ? the 3rd genital 

 segment red. Underside deep ochreous ; stigmata black. 



Head flat ; Face ; central lobe longer than the side lobes, depressed 

 on the apex. Antennce ochreous or brownish, last two joints darker ; 

 1st joint long, passing beyond tlie liead ; 3rd subequal ; 2nd a little 

 longer than the 3rd ; 5th longer than the 2nd ; 4th longer than the 

 5th. JEijes rounded. Ocelli brown. Bostrum reaching to the 2nd 

 pair of coxa>, brownish, the end piceous. 



Tliorax. — T?ronotum narrow in front, anterior margin concave, angles 

 a little produced and sinuate behind the eyes ; sides widely divergent; 

 nearly straight ; hinder angles a little produced, very obtuse, rounded ; 

 hinder sides nearly straight, deflected ; posterior margin slightly 

 concave ; disk slightly convex, in front flat, ochreous, with a traus- 



