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Luteous-brown, thickly and finely black-punctured ; antennce pinky- 

 red; 4tli joint witb a broad black ring; 5th except the base, black ; 

 ahdomen above black ; underside pale luteous, with dark, longi- 

 tudinal punctured streaks; lerjs luteous, finely black-punctured. 



TIead flat ; Face in front without a notch, rounded ; central lobe 

 short, in front depressed, enclosed by the side lobes. Antennce : 

 tubercle very short, apex rounded ; 1st joint more than half the length 

 of the 2nd ; 2nd and 3rd in length subequal ; 4th and 5th subequal, 

 each longer and stouter than the 3rd. ^yes rather small, prominent, 

 concolorous with the head. Ocelli distant. Bostrmn reaching to 

 the 3rd pair of coxjb, luteous. 



Thorax. — PronoUmi in front deflected ; anterior margin slightly 

 concave, cut off obliquely behind the eyes ; sides widely diverging, 

 slightly sinuate, margins yellow, reflexed ; hinder angles prominent, 

 broadly rounded ; hinder sides rounded into the straight posterior 

 margin. Sciitellum punctured like the pronotum ; apex luteous, 

 narrowly rounded. Elytra : Corium punctured finer than the pro- 

 notum and scutellum ; anterior and posterior margins a little 

 rounded ; membrane with 7 nerves, luteous, or luteous-brown, with 

 a dark cloud at the inner basal angle. (S'^^'rww/M luteous, finely black- 

 punctured. Leffs luteous or reddish, very finely black-punctured ; 

 tarsi concolorous. 



Ahdomen, above black ; Connexivum black with yellow intervals. 

 Underside pale luteous, with longitudinal wavy bands or streaks of 

 black punctures ; stigmata black. 



Length, 3| — 4^- lines. 



Eare. One specimen taken casually, locality unknown ; and one 

 specimen in the collection of Mr. Gr. H. Crotch. 



Species 5. — Pentatoma dissimile. 



CiMEX PRAsixus, De G. Mem. iii, 266, 9 (1773) ; IFoIff, Ic. Cim. 52, i. 

 6, fig. 49 (1801); Fall Mon. Cim. 47, 11 (1S07) ; 

 Hem. Suec. 28, 10 (1829). 

 — DissiMiLis, Fab. E. S. iv, 109, 112 (1794) ; S. R. 167, 59 (1803) ; 

 Panz. F. G. 33, 13; Wolff, Ic. Cim. 53, t. 6, fig. 50 

 (1801); Bum. Handb. ii, 370, 17 (1835); Fieb. 

 Eiarop. Hem. 339, 4 (1861). 

 Pentatoma Junipekina, Le P. et Serv. Enc. x, 57, 19 (1825). 



— PKASiNUM, Halm, Wanz. ii, GO, pi. 49, fig. 119 (1834). 



