96 SCUTATINA. 



8j)ecies 1. — Picromerus bidens. 



CiMEX BIDENS, Lin. S. N. i, 718, 23 (1767) ; De G. Mem. iii, 259, pi. 



13, fig. 9 (1773) ; Rossi, F. Etr. ii, 230, 1297 (1790) ; 



Fab. E. S. iv, 93, 54 (1794) ; S. R. 155, 2 (1803) ; 



Pmiz. E. G. 26, 22 ; Wolff, Ic. Cim. 7, t. 1, fig. 7 



(ISOO); Fall. Moa. Cim. 43, 1 (1807); Hem. Suec. 



22, 1 (1826) ; Zeit. Ins. Lap. i, 259, 1 (1840). 

 Army — Hahn, Wanz. i, 92, t. 15, fig. 51 (1831); Kolen.lld. 



Ent. k, 39, 163 (1816). 

 Pentatoma bidens, H. Sch. Nom. Eut. i, 56 & 93 (1835). 

 Asopus — Burnt. Handb. ii, 379, 6 (1835) ; U. ScJif. Wauz. vii, 



113 (1844). 

 Picromerus — Am. et Serv. Hem, 84, 1 (1843) ; Sahib. Geoc. Fen. 

 18, 1 (1848) ; Fieb. Europ. Hem. 349, 1 (1861). 

 Asopus (Picromerus) bidens, Flor, Rhyu. Liv. i, 92, 3 (1860), 



Luteous, thickly black-punctured, often so mucli as to appear entirely 

 piceous, slightly shining ; head bronzy : underside rufous or 

 piceous. 



Head bronzy ; Grown with two central, nearly unpunctured lines 

 reaching to the base of the central lobe ; Face ; central lobe pos- 

 teriorly a little raised. Antenncs red, tip of the 5th joint piceous or 

 black. Eyes piceous. Ocelli red, JRostrum luteous. 



Thorax. — Pronotum ; sides and spines pitchy-black, the serrated 

 lateral margin yellow ; on the anterior third of the disk two large, 

 subangular, nearly unpunctured spaces, on their posterior margin a 

 small, smooth, orange spot. Scutellum crenate-punctate, clouded 

 with piceous ; extreme basal angle depressed, black, within this 

 raised into a small, smooth, yellow spot ; apex narrowly orange. 

 JElytra; Gorium less and more finely punctured than the prouotum ; 

 Memhrane dark brown, nervures strong. Sternum luteous, black- 

 punctured ; on each side of the yellow mesosternal keel a large, 

 usually black, quadrate spot ; on the anterior edge of the metasternum 

 a large, lobate, raised, yellow spot. Legs rufous, with a pink tinge ; 

 thighs finely brown-punctate ; tibiae, towards the centre yellow ; 

 tarsi ; 1st and 2nd joints pinky red, 3rd piceous. 



Abdomen, above piceous-black ; beneath rufous or piceous, finely 



