﻿154. 

 DICTYONOTA CRASSICORNIS. 



Order Hemiptera. Fam. Cimicidaj Lat,^ Leach. 



Type of the genus Tingis Eryngii Lat. 



DiCTYONOTA Nob. — Tingis Fab., Lat., Panz., Fall., Leach. — Cimex 

 Linn., Geoff., DeGeer. 



AntenncE inserted before the eyes, on each side of the head, long, 

 robust, scabrous, 4-jointed, 1st and 2nd joints subglobose, 3rd 

 the thickest, very long, covered with small tubercles producing 

 hairs, 4th ovate pilose (fig. 4), 



Rostrum inflected, extending the whole length of the thorax 

 when at rest (2) : confined at the base by two reticulated mem- 

 branous plates, more dilated and less produced on the pectus 

 (2 b) : 4-jointed, basal joint robust, 2nd long slender, 3rd rather 

 shorter than the 4th which is lanceolate and as long as the 

 first (2). 



Labrum short, tongue-shaped, grooved (3). 

 Mandibles and Maxillae like setae passing through the rostrum 

 or labium. 

 Head small, trigonate 4-spined. Eyes lateral. Ocelli ?w7ie. Thorax 

 transverse, reticulated, margins dilated, transparent, inflated in the 

 centre of the anterior margin, having 3 carince down the back and 

 produced posteriorly in the form of a scutellum. Body depressed. 

 Elytra transparent, reticulated, having two strong nervures in the 

 middle of each forming an ellipsis. Wings ample, having 2 lo)igi- 

 tudinal nervures united near the middle by an oblique one (9 a). 

 Legs not long simple. Tarsi 3-jointed {6, afore leg). 



Ckassicornis Fallen Man. Cim. Suec. p. 38. n. 8. 



Antennce black, rough, the 3rd and 4th joints producing rather 

 long spreading hairs, the terminal joint being half the length 

 of the 3rd. Head and eyes black thickly punctured, the spines 

 before the eyes inclining outward, those in the centre contiguous. 

 Thorax slightly ochraceous, nervures brown, transverse, qua- 

 drate-ovate, black and deeply punctured in the middle, carinse 

 very much produced reticulated. Elytra of the same colour, 

 fuscous in the middle, the reticulations being nearly of equal 

 size and strength throughout. Legs ferruginous, thighs blackish 

 in the middle, last joint of tarsi fuscous. Beneath black. Ab- 

 domen castaneous. 



In the Cabinet of the Author. 



