5G SCUTATINA. 



Cydnus morio, Fab. S. "R. 184, 3 (1803) ; Panz. P. G. 32, 15 ; 

 Fall. Mon. Cim. 52, 1 (1807); Hem. Suec. 18, 1 

 (1829) ; Hahn, Wanz. 1, 2G3, t. 25, fig. 84 (C. ni- 

 grita) (1831); Burm. Handb. ii, 375. 6 (1835); 

 Hamb. F. And. ii, 112, 3 (1842) ; Flor, Rhyn. Liv. 

 i, 159, 4(1800). 



Pentatoma — Lep. et Sen. Enc. x, 58 (1825). 



Seiiirus — Am. et Sen. Hem. 96, 1 (1843) ; Sahib. Geoc. Feu. 

 20, 1 (1848); Fieb. Europ." Hem. 367, 2 (1861). 



Black, sliglitly convex, shining, finely punctured. 



Sead\>xo2A, almost semicircular before the eyes ; the Crown convex, 

 lightly punctured, the front coarsely punctured. Antenna; : 1st 

 joint short, piceous ; 2nd dark yellow ; 3rd black, about the same 

 length as the 2nd ; 4th and 5th black, in length subequal, but 

 longer than the 3rd ; the extreme tip of the 3rd and 4th, and the 

 petiole of the 4th and 5th yellowish. J^i/es prominent, somewhat 

 pointed. Ocelli large, red. Rostrum brown or piceous, scarcely 

 reaching to the middle coxee, 2ud joint the longest. 



Thorax. — Pronotum : lateral margins finely reflexed ; hinder angles 

 raised ; on the disk, at a short distance from the anterior margin, a 

 broad, transverse, unpunctured space, in form somewhat quadrangu- 

 lar, but with the anterior angles prolong^ed towards the anterior 

 angles of the pronotum ; the punctures are sharper, deeper, and 

 wider apart than those on the head. Scutellum very slightly con- 

 vex, the deflected apex slightly concave and almost punctureless. 

 Elytra : Corium ; the anterior margin reflexed ; posterior margin 

 slightly sinuate ; Membrane fuscous brown, clearer at the base, or 

 all whitish brown. Sternum coarsely punctured ; 3 transverse femoral 

 channels, the anterior and posterior being the deepest ; Prosternum ; 

 the rostral channel shallow, widened in front, the sides terminating 

 in a short, blunt process. Legs : tihice piceous, tarsi paler. 



Abdomen very convex beneath, very minutely punctured. 



Length, 2| — 3^ lines. 



Not common in the London district ; taken in spring and 

 autumn. 



Species 5. — Sehirus albomarginatus. 



CiMEX ALBOMARGINATUS, Fab. E. S. iv, 123, 168 (1794); S. 11.179, 

 121 (1803); Pa>ts. F. G. 33, 20; JFolf, 

 Ic. Cim. 65, t. 7, fig- 62 (ISOl). 



