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short, oval channel, the sides of which are much produced and 

 rounded. 



Thorax. — Pronotum almost hexagonal, convex ; hindwardly, espe- 

 cially within the hinder angles, much raised ; in front nearly straight, 

 wider than the head, anterior angles produced into a small tooth ; 

 sides widely divergent, lateral margin wide, incrassated, posteriorly 

 ending abruptly ; hinder and posterior angles much rounded ; pos- 

 terior margin, opposite the scutellum, straight. Scutellum frds the 

 length of the abdomen, subtriangular, base not so wide as the abdo- 

 men, sides slightly sinuate, apex broadly rounded. Elytra: Gorium ; 

 posterior margin rounded ; Memhrane with 5 nerves. Sternum : 

 Prosternum ; rostral channel very wide, the plate on each side much 

 produced, raised, and rounded off" ; transverse channel deep ; Meso- 

 sternum ; the rostral channel wide and shallow. Legs short, stout ; 

 if A /[^f/is compressed; tilicB outwardly flattened, slightly hairy; tarsi 

 strongly hairy beneath, 1st joint longer and stouter than the 3rd, 

 2nd shortest. 



Abdomen semi-elliptic, convex beneath ; Connexiviiiii moderate, of 

 equal breadth throughout, horizontal. 



Species 1. — tElioides inflexa. 



Cydnus inplexus, Wolff, Ic. Cim. 188, t. 3 8, fig. 182 (1811). 



CiMEX PERLATUS, Fall. Hem. Suec. 32, 18 (1829). 



Eysarcokis iNFLExus, Hdhi, Wanz. ii, 129, t. 70, fis^. 210 (lS3i). 



iELiA INELEXA, Rumb. Faun, And. ii, 106, 2 (1842) ; Am. et Serv. 



Hem. 134, 2 (1843) ; Sahib. Geoc. Fen. 29, 39 (1848) ; 



Flor, Rliyn. Liv. i, 124, 3 (18G0). 

 Pentatoxia iNFLEXuM,'Zr. Schf. Nom. Ent. i, 55 & 92 (1835) ; Wauz. 



vii, 93 (1844). 

 SciocoRis INFLEXUS, Kolen. Mel. Eut. iv, 31, 153 (lS46j. 

 Pentatoma inflexa, Gorski, Anal. 76, 42 (1852). 



— lineolata, Muls. An. Soc. Lin. 84 (1852). 



^LioiDES inflexa, Dohm, Stett. Eut. Zeit. 21, 101 (1860). 

 PLATisoLEN INFLEXUS, Fleb. Europ. Hem. 334, 3 (1861). 



Luteous, shining, thickly and finely black-punctured. 



Head piceous or bronzed, lighter at the sides, coarsely punctured ; 

 on the Crown a yellow line mostly extending to the central lobe of 

 the face, at each side of this line another shorter and finer. Anfemiai ; 



