78 SCUTATINA. 



Species 1. — Pentatoma nigricorne. 



CiMEx NiGRicoKNis, Fub. E. S. iv. 9-i, 59 (1794) ; S. R. 157, 8 (1803) ; 

 JFolff, Ic. Cim. 138, t. 14, fig. 132 (1804) ; Fall. 

 Mou. Cim. 47,'9 (1807) ; Hem. Suec. 27, 9 (1829); 

 Burm. Handb. ii, 369, 15 (1835) ; Ramb. F. And. 

 ii, 124, 11 (1842). 

 — Eryngii, Germ. Reis. Dalm. 283, 479 ; F. Ins. Eur. 2, 21 (1813). 

 Pentatoma nigkicoknis et Eryngii, Halm, Wanz. ii, 58 & 59, t. 48, 



fig. 147 & 148 (1834). 



— NIGRICORNE et VARiUM, //. Schf. Nom. Eut. i, 5G & 93 



(1835). 



— — //. Schf. Wanz. vii, 95 (1844) ; Flor, Rhyn. 



Liv. i, 138,6 (]860). 

 Carpocoris nigricornis et Eryngii, Kolen. Mel. Eut, iv, 46, 170, & 47, 



171 (1846). 

 MoRMiDEA — SaJilh. Geoc. Fen. 30, 1 (1848) ; Fieb. Europ. 



Hem. 335, 3 (1861). 

 Pentatoma melanocera. Huh. An. Soc. Liu. 90 (1852). 



Very variable in colour and size. Greenish, ochreous-brown, 

 brown-red, or red with more or less black streaks or spots. 

 Finely punctured. Antennce black, 1st joint reddish. Hinder 

 angles of the 'pronotum produced into a prominent, broad, ob- 

 tuse, up-curving point, of which the apex is broadly black. 

 Membrane smoke-brown. Legs yellowish or reddish. 



Ochreous brown. Head deflected, long, very slightly convex ; 

 Crown on each side with two fine, black lines ; Face ; outer margins 

 of the side lobes nearly straight, black, at the tip rounded, inner 

 margin straight ; central lobe as long as the side lobes. Antenna 

 rather short ; tubercles yellowish, at the apex outwardly a fine short 

 spine; 1st joint not reaching the end of the head; 2nd ;^rd longer 

 than the 1st; 3rd subequal ; 4th and 5th subequal, longer than the 

 2nd. JEyes brown. Ocelli distant. Bostntm luteous, witii a central 

 dark line, tip black. 



Thorax. — Pronotum in front deflected at the same angle as the 

 head ; anterior margin in the centre straight, anterior angles much 

 produced, cut off obliquely behind the eyes, outwardly acute ; sides 



