84 SCUTATINA. 



Cakpocoris pkasina et dissimilts, Kulen. Mel. Ent. iv, 43, 173, & 49, 174 



(1846). 

 Pentatoma DissiiliLis, Am. et Sen. Hem. 131, 4 (1843). 



Deep green, strongly black-punctured, slightly shining, beneath 

 luteous, greenish or reddish, legs greenish, tarsi reddish-brown. 



Head flat ; Face in front with a small, narrow notch ; central lobe 

 pointed, not quite so long as the side lobes. Antennce inserted on a 

 short tubercle, the top of wliich is outwardly produced into a short, 

 blunt spine ; 1st joint shorter than the head ; 2nd twice the length 

 of the 1st;' 3rd and 4th each progressively a little longer; 5th per- 

 ceptibly longer than the 4th ; the first 3 joints greenish, 4th reddish- 

 brown, 5th reddish-brown at the base, the remainder piceous. Eyes 

 greenish, the centre brown. Ocelli brown. Sosfrum reaching be- 

 yond the 3rd pair of cosee, greenish, the tip black. 



Thorax. — Pronotiim ; anterior margin concave, anterior angles pro- 

 duced and cut off obliquely behind the eyes, exteriorly pointed ; 

 sides nearly straight, widely divergent ; margins slightly reflexed, 

 sometimes yellowish ; hinder angles prominent, broadly rounded ; 

 hinder sides a little rounded ; posterior margin straight. Scutellum 

 punctured like the pronotum ; base convex ; posteriorly a slight, 

 wide depression at each side ; apex gradually rounded, pale green. 

 Elytra punctured rather finer than the pronotum and scutellum ; 

 Corium ; posterior margin straight ; Membrane smoke-brown, with a 

 fuscous cloud at the inner basal angle. Sternum pale greenish, 

 slightly punctured. Leys green ; tliiglis paler ; tarsi reddish-brown, 

 claws black. 



Abdomen, above black, beneath greenish or reddish, with shallow 

 punctures; Cotmexivum green, thickly and finely black-punctured, 

 the margin and the edges of the segments narrowly yellow. 



Length, 5^ — 6 lines. 



Common on many kinds of trees, in summer. 



Ge?)ifs 3. — Strachia, Hahn. 



Sead wide, flat, (with the eyes) subtrapezoidal ; Face ; sides 

 before the eyes sinuate, lateral margins incrassated, reflexed ; apex 

 rounded, with a central small notch ; central lobe short, pointed. 

 Antennce moderate ; tubercles short, inserted obliquely anterior to 

 the eyes ; 1st joint short, stout; 2nd, 4th, and 5th in length subequal; 



