82 SCUTATINA. 



elytra, apex of tlie scutellum, and the outer side of the con- 

 nexivii/m, yellow ; antennce and legs black. 



Head subconvex ; Face in fx'ont with a small notch ; central lobe 

 nearly as long as the side lobes. Antennce : tubercle short, outwardly 

 produced into a short, blunt spine ; 1st joint short ; 2nd three times 

 as long as the 1st ; 3rd f rds the length of the 2nd ; 4th and 5th 

 in length subequal, nearly as long as the 2nd. Bostncm reaching 

 beyond the 3rd pair of coxae, black. 



Thorax. — Pronotum ; anterior margin straight in the centre, an- 

 terior angles produced, cut off obliquely behind the eyes, exteriorly 

 acute ; sides widely divergent, a little rounded ; margins reflexed, 

 yellow ; hinder angles obtuse, not produced ; hinder sides deflected, 

 nearly straight ; posterior margin straight ; disk in front flattened 

 and deflected, with two smooth, irregular, transverse spaces on the 

 first third ; posteriorly convex and raised within the hinder angles 

 almost into a nodule. Scutellum on a level with the pronotum ; 

 base with a subtriangular, black, slightly raised patch across the 

 entire breadth ; disk subcrenate-punctate, apex distinctly greenish - 

 yellow. Elytra : Clavus and outer side of the Coriiim coarser punc- 

 tured than the disk, base of the anterior margin of the latter yellow ; 

 Ilemhrane dusky, transparent, with 8 nerves. Sternum finely punc- 

 tured. Legs black, or greenish-black, with very short hairs ; hinder 

 tihice slightly curved. 



Ahdomen, above black ; Connexivum yellow, inwardly black. Under- 

 side finely punctured. 



Length, 5 — 5^ lines. 



On juniper bushes. Eare. 



Sanderstead Downs {A. Hayward) ; Mickleham Downs (T. Ingall). 



Species 4. — Pentatoma vernale. 



CiMEX VERNALIS, WoIff, Ic. Cim. 141, 135, t. 14, fig. 135 (ISOO) ; Panz. 

 F. G. 113, G ; Fall. Hem. Suec. i, 30, 14 (1S29) ; Ficb. 

 Europ. Hem. 38'J, 1 (1861). 

 Pentatoma veenale. Halm, Wanz. ii, 64, t. 50, fig. 153 (1834) ; H.Schf. 

 Nom. Eiit. i, 56 (1835) ; Sahib. Geoc. Fen. 26, 

 2 (1848) ; Flor, llliyn. Liv. i, 135, 4 (1860). 

 Carpocoris — Koleii. Mel. Ent. iv, 52, 179 (1845). 



