98 SCUTATINA. 



Abdomen long, semi-elliptic, above flat, beneatli convex ; in the 

 centre of tlie 2nd segment a short, blunt process, pointing forwards. 

 Connexivum broad. 



Species 1. — Tropicoris rufipes. 



CiMEX KUFiPES, Lin. S. N. i, 719, 24 (1767) ; De G. Mem. iii, 253, 

 2 (1773); Fab. E. S. iv, 93, 56 (1794); S. R. 

 156, 5 (1803) ; Wolff, Ic. Cim. 9, t. 1, fig. 9 (1800); 

 Fall. Mon. Cim. 46, 7 (1S07) ; Hem. Suec. 26, 7 

 (1829); Burm. Handb. ii, 366, 7 (1835); Am. et 

 Sen. Hem. 149, 1 (1843); Sahib. Geoc. Ten. 30, 

 13 (1848); Flor, Rliyn. Liv. i, 107, 1 (1860). 



Pentatoma — Le P. et Serv. Enc. x, 55, 13 (1825) ; H. Sch. Norn. Eut. 

 i, 56 & 93 (1835). 



TKoncoRis — Ilahn, Wanz. ii, 54, t. 47, fig. 145 (1834) ; Koleti. Mel. 

 Eut. iv, 44, 169 (1846) ; Fieb. Europ. Hem. 330 

 (1S61). 



Luteons, thickly black-punctured, shining ; beneath orange red ; 

 sides of pro7iotum very sinuate, forming in the middle a broad, 

 projecting process. 



Head with a bronzy lustre, darker at the sides ; Cvoxon with two 

 parallel, smooth lines from tlie base to the central lobe of the face, 

 which posteriorly is raised, its apex flat, depressed. Antennce : first 

 3 joints and base of the 4th red, the rest piceous or black. Eyes 

 brown. Ocelli red. Rostrimi luteous, end of the lahrum and the 4th 

 joint entirely piceous. 



Tliorax. — Pronotum ; the punctures in short series; front black, 

 more or less mixed with orange ; lateral margins and the tooth 

 at the anterior angles orange ; lateral process black. Sctctellum 

 crenate-punctate ; close to the basal angles a small whitish or orange 

 spot ; apex with a slight channel, nearly unpunctured, broadly orange. 

 Elytra : Corium exterior to the costal nerve a little recurved ; Mem,' 

 hrane brown. Stet'mim : Prostermim finely black-punctured ; Meso- 

 and Metasternuon with few punctures ; on each side of the yellow 

 mesosternal keel a quadrate smooth space ; Leys : tliiyhs reddish- 

 brown thickly spotted with black ; tihiee, inwardly with long fine 



