90 SCUTATINA. 



sides sliglitly rounded, margins incrassated ; hinder angles obtuse ; 

 hinder sides sinuate ; posterior margin a little longer than the 

 scutellum is wide, nearly straight, posterior angles deflected, acute. 

 Scutellmn more than ^ the length of the abdomen, subtriangular ; 

 base convex ; sides deflected, sinuate, beyond the middle parallel ; 

 apex broad, rounded. Elytra : Corium ; anterior and posterior mar- 

 gins rounded ; Memhrane with 7 long nerves. Sternum ; on each 

 side a wide transverse oblique channel across the pro- and meso- 

 sternum ; Mesosternum with a slight central keel in a shallow, narrow 

 channel. Legs : thighs ; 1st pair beneath with a large spine beyond 

 the middle ; tibice widened at the apex on the upper side, with the 

 margins reflexed, forming a narrow channel ; beneath, beyond the 

 middle, with a small, acute spine ; tarsi ; 1st joint as long as the 2nd 

 and 3rd together ; 2nd short. 

 Abdomen semi-elliptic ; convex beneath ; Connexivum moderate. 



Species 1. — Jalla dumosa. 



CiMEX DUMOSA, Lin. r. S. 249, 929 (17C1); S. N. 1, 721, 46 (1767) ; 



Fab. E. S. iv, lU, 121 (1794); S. R. IGS, 71 (1S03) ; 



Panz, E. G. 33, 18 ; Fall. Mon. Cim. 47, 10 (1807) ; 



Hem. Suec. 28, 12 (1826). 

 Jalla dumosa, HaJin, Wanz. i, 101, t. 16, fig. 54, 55 (1831) ; Am. ct 



Sew. Hem. SG, 1 (1843) ; Kolen. Mel. Eiit. iv, 36, 161 



(1846); Fieb. Europ. Hem. 347, 2 (1861). 

 Pentatoma dumosum, H. Schf. Nom. Eut. 1, 53 (1835). 

 Asopus DUMOSUS, Burm. Handb. ii, 378, 3 (1835) ; H. ScJif. Wanz. vii, 

 113 (1844). 



Elliptic, pointed in front, slightly shining ; above fusco-luteous, black- 

 punctured ; sides of the pronotum, centre of, and two basal spots 

 on, the scutellum, margin of the elytra and abdomen, and a ring 

 on each of the tibice, vermilion ; underside black. 



Head black, finely punctured ; Face ; central lobe vermilion, 

 which colour is also continued in a line over the Croion. Antenncs 

 black, base of the 3rd joint red. JiJg es hlack. Ocelli red. Rostrum 

 deep piceous. 



Thorax. — Pronotum; the broad incrassated lateral margins ver- 

 milion ; anterior half of the disk black, in front and within the lateral 

 margins thickly i)uneturcd ; iu the centre a broad longitudinal line, on 



