68 SCUTATINA. 



Family b.~MLlWM. 

 Genus 1. — ^UA, Fab. 



Head triangular, elongated, curved, thick. Antennce slender, flat- 

 tened ; tubercles small, appressed, inserted near, but anterior to each 

 eye, pointing obliquely inwards, ^ycs round, small, but rather 

 prominent. Ocelli very small, distant. Rostrum long, slender, 2nd 

 joint the longest, 3rd and 4th of about equal length, shorter than the 

 first ; rostral channel deep, wide in front, the sides much produced. 



Thorax. — Pronotum hexagonal, convex, hinder sides short, much 

 rounded. Scutelliom more than half the length of the abdomen, but 

 not nearly so wide, sides slightly sinuate, end rounded. Elytra : 

 Corium with the posterior margin rounded ; lleinhrane with 7 long 

 nerves. Sternum with a rostral channel ; Prosfernum on each side 

 ■with a shallow transverse channel ; the anterior margin is divided 

 in the centre, and produced into 2 thin plates over the base of the 

 head, forming a channel for the antenna? when at rest. JLer/s mode- 

 rate ; thighs compressed ; tihicB outwardly flattened, the margins 

 reflexed; tarsi ; 1st joint longer and stouter than the 3rd; 2nd joint 

 shortest. 



Abdomen ovate, convex beneath ; Connexivum horizontal, narrow, 

 a little wider on the 6th segment. The genital segments in the $ are 

 not visible on the upper side, but in the ? they project beyond the 

 last abdominal segment, the posterior margin of the last being nearly 

 straight. 



Sjiecies 1. — ./Eli a acuminata. 



CiMEX ACUMiNATUs, Lin. r. S. 251, 939 (1761); S. N. 1, 723, 59 



(1767). 

 MiAK ACUMINATA, Curt. B. E. XV, pi. 701 (1838). 



— NEGLECTA, Ball. Cat. Hem. 1, 223, 3 (1851). 



— PALLIDA, Kiist. Stett. Eut. Zeit. 13, 394, 4 (1S52) ; Flor, Rhyn. 



Liv. i, 121, 2 (1860) ; Fieb. Europ. Hem. 352, 5 (1861). 



Elliptic, narrow and pointed in front, flavous or ochreous, with a 

 green tinge, thickly and finely black-punctured, and down the 

 centre of the insect a black stripe, gradually widening as far as 



