24 FTemiptera-fleteroptera. 
head and thorax forming a triangle of which the base of the 
thorax forms the base, the elytra forming a reverse longer 
triangle, with the same base. Head punctured, longer than 
wide, pointed in front, with a dark central stripe, its centre 
pale ; pronotum punctured, sides straight, base slightly pro- 
duced, nearly straight across the seutellum ; dise with a broad 
dark longitudinal band, its centre narrowly pale, sides 
with a narrower dark band just within the lateral margins ; 
scutellum punctured, with a pale central line, shaded with 
a darker colour on each side; corjum pale, without mark- 
ings, punctured; membrane hyaline ; abdomen above black 
with yellow markings, beneath pale; stigmata black ; legs 
pale, second and third pairs of femora bearing two black 
spots beneath. 
L, 8-9 mm. 
Reigate, Worthing, Woking, Shiere ; Darenth Wood, 
Deal, Cowbridge 8. Wales, Billups; N. Yarmouth, Curtis ; 
Hastings, Sandown, Mickleham, Weybridge, Darenth, 
Brandon, Champion; Hythe, Blateh; Lulworth, Dale ; 
Teignmouth, Blumer. 
NEOTTIGLOSSA, Cut. 
filioides, Dohrn. 
A small genus somewhat allied to Alia although very 
different in the shape of the head; it may, however, be dis- 
tinguished, in common with that genus, from the others of 
the Pentatomina in having the head bent downwards in 
front. In this genus again we have only one species. 
N. inflexa, /olj:—Small, shining, ochreous, punctured 
with black, sides of the elytra subparallel, antennze with 
the fourth and fifth joints black, abdomen beneath bronzy. 
Head darker than the pronotum, deeply punctured, sub- 
triangular, deflected in front, cheeks enclosing the central 
lobe; pronotum punctured, the sides nearly straight, 
