76 ; September, 



I shall be very glad to hear from any Entomologist who has made 

 any recent captures of the insect. Its old locality must I fear have 

 long since been extirpated by advancing cultivation, if not by bricks 

 and mortar, but no doubt it occurs on other chalk downs, where shelter 

 for unfortunate Micros is afforded by the growth of juniper, and 

 where JJmbelUfercE of some sort blossom and go to seed. 



Mountsfield, Lewisham, S.E. : 

 August lith, 1882. 



DESCRIPTION OF a NEW SPECIES of PENTAT0MID2E FROM JAPAN. 

 BY W. L. DISTANT. 



In writing on a small collection of Blnpichotn from Tokei, Japan 

 (Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. [July], 1881, p. 28), I recorded a species of 

 JPentatomUlcB as Tropicoris metallifer, Motsch. ?, remarking that my 

 two Japanese specimens appeared to agree well with the descriptions 

 of Motschulsky and Oschanin (the latter author having renamed and re- 

 described the species), with the exception of the colour of the apex 

 of the scutellum ; I have, however, recently received a specimen of 

 T. metallifer fi'om the Amur, and find that the Japanese forms con- 

 stitute a very distinct species, which I here describe. 



Tbopicoris japonicus, n. sjj. 



Body above metallic-green, body beneath and legs pale reddish, membrane pale 

 fuscous, with the nervures darker. Head very thickly and coarsely punctate, with 

 the eyes ochraceous. Antennjs, with the 1st and 4th joints, pale reddish ; 2nd, 3rd 

 and base of 4th joints fuscous ; 3rd joint longest, 1st smallest, 4th a little longer 

 than 2nd (5th wanting). Pronotura coarsely and densely punctate, sub-rugulose at 

 base, lateral angles produced into somewhat broad and flat processes, their apices 

 slightly concave, the apical angles obtusely spinous, the anterior spine longest and 

 most produced, lateral angles distinctly serrate, and, with the margins of posterior 

 angles, pale reddish ; two small, irregularly rounded, ochraceous fascisB near an- 

 terior margin. Scutellum thickly and coarsely punctate, and sub-rugulose at base. 

 Corium very thickly and finely punctate. Abdomen above dull reddish. Membrane 

 pale fuscous-hyaline, appearing darker at base, from reflection of abdomen, the 

 nervures darker. Abdomen beneath bright pale reddish, the sternum somewhat 

 ochraceous. Prosternum coarsely punctate, particularly at lateral angles. Legs 

 speckled with fuscous. Stigmata black. Rostrum ochraceous, its apex pitchy and 

 reaching the base of 4th abdominal segment. 



Long. 17 mm. ; lat. pronot. angl. 11 mm. 



Hab. Tokei, Japan. 



This species is closely allied to T. metallifer, Motsch., but differs 

 by the very different structure of the pronotal angles, the concolorous 

 apex of the scutellum, different colour and structure of the an- 

 tennae, &c. 



Selston Yillas, Derwent Grove, East Dulwich : .¥ 



Aiiffti.it, 1882. •'c^ .1 



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