PENTATOMIDiE. 87 



Strachia oleracea, Halm, Wanz. i, 1S2, t. 29, fig. 94 (1831) ; Fieh. 



Europ. Hem. 3-15, 9 (1861). 

 EuRYDEMA OLEKACETJM, ZT. Aye/;/". Nora. Eut. 1, 55 (1835); Kolen. Mel. 

 Eiit. iv, 22, Ul (1816); Flor, Rhyn. Liv. i, 

 146, 2 (1860). 

 — OLERACEA, SaUh. Geoc. Feu. 25, 2 (1818). 



Elliptic, blue-green, finely punctured ; sides of tlie head dind. pronohim, 

 anterior margin of the coriuin, a broad central line on the pro- 

 notum, apex of the scutellum, and a contiguous large spot on 

 each elytron, yellow, white or red. 



Sead. — The reflexed margin straw -yellow; Anfennce, Eyes and 

 Ocelli, black. 



Thorax. — Pronotum ; anterior margin in the centre, lateral 

 margins, and a broad, hind war dly diverging line down the centre of 

 the disk straw-yellow ; the raised smooth line on the anterior por- 

 tion of the disk is widened laterally, and before and behind it the 

 punctures are closer and deeper, elsewhere they are distant and dis- 

 posed in transverse rows. Scutellum crenate-punctate ; aj)ex a 

 short, obtuse point, almost rounded, unpunctured, broadly straw- 

 yellow ; sometimes also the sides of the base are more or less yellow. 

 Elytra : Corium much finer and closer punctured than the pronotum 

 and corium ; anterior margin and a large transverse spot in a line 

 with the apex of the scutellum, straw-yellow; Membrane black-brown. 

 Sternum slightly punctured, stronger in the channel of the Pro- 

 sternum.; black or with yellow spots. Leys; thiyhs entirely black or 

 with the base more or less ; the tip narrowly, and a half-ring beneath, 

 yellow ; tihios black, with a central yellow ring ; tarsi black. 



Abdomen black above ; beneath black or yellow, with 3 rows of 

 large black spots, one central and one on each side. 



The lighter markings on the upper side and legs vary from white 

 to red ; the colours on the underside vary from black to yellow, with 

 spots of various form and size, so that no two specimens are exactly 

 alike in colouring. 



Length, 3 — 3| lines. 



Not rare, but local. Isle of Wight {E. Lewis) ; Cambridge, July 

 {F. Bond). 



