94 SCUTATINA. 



Species 1. — Asopus luridus. 



CiMEX LURIDUS, Fab. S. E. 701, 25 (1775) ; E. S. iv, 91, G7 (1791) ; S. 

 R. 157, (1803) ; Pam. F. G. 92, 9 ; Wolff, Ic. Cim. 

 136, 130, t. 13, fig. 130 (1801) ; Fall. Mon. Cim. 46, 

 8 (1807); Hem. Suec. 26, 8 (1826). 



Arma lurida, TlaJin, Wanz. i, 97, t. 15, fig. 53 (1831). 



Pentatoma luridum, H. Sch. Nom. Eiit. i, 56 & 92 (1835). 



Asorus LURIDUS, Bunn. Haiidb. ii, 379, 4 (1835) ; H. Schf. Wanz. vii, 

 114 (1844); Fleh. Europ. Hem. 348 (1861). 



Arma luridum, Kolen. Mel. Eat. iv, 40, 164 (1846). 



Asopus (PoDisus) LURIDUS, Flor, Rhyn. Liv. i, 95, 5 (1860.) 



Luteous, thickly black-punctured, slightly sliiniug, bronzy or 

 metallic blue-black on the head and sides of the 'pronotum ; 

 beneath luteous, with two distant, longitudinal rows of black 

 spots, and (in the 2) having a large spot on the 6th segment of 

 the abdomen. 



Head bronzy or blue-black ; Crown with two smooth lines reaching 

 to the base of the central lobe ; Mice ; central lobe posteriorly a 

 little raised. Antennce black, basal joint beneath luteous, with a 

 central black line, apical half of the 4th joint orange. Eyes piceous. 

 Ocelli red. Rostrum luteous. 



Thorax. — Pronotum ; the punctures in short series ; sides broadly 

 metallic, blue-black ; the serrated lateral margins yellow ; in the 

 centre of the disk two large, but slight, depressions, bordered in 

 front by a short, raised, smooth line. Scutellmn punctate-crenate, 

 more or less clouded with black, composed of contiguous punctures, 

 the extreme basal angles depressed, black. Elytra : Corium ; finer 

 punctured in the centre than at the sides ; posteriorly, adjoining the 

 outer nerve, a small smooth space. Sternum finely black-punctured ; 

 on each side of the yellow mesosternal keel a quadrate smooth space. 

 Leys finely haired, rufo-luteous, thickly piceous- or black-spotted ; 

 beneath, beyond the middle, a larger black spot ; tarsi black, 2nd 

 joint and base of the 1st rufous. 



Abdomen, above black, beneath luteous, with two distant rows of 

 black spots, one of the spots being at the anterior edge of each 

 segment, and (in the ?) a larger central black spot on the anterior 



