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tion. Messrs. Douglas and Scott quote Crotch’s specimen 
and another without locality. The Rev. T. A. Marshall 
records it from Cumberland. 
P. vernalis, Wo//.—Dull, ochreous brown, densely 
punctured with black, antennae orange yellow, a band across 
the middle of the fourth joint, and the fifth, except at its 
base, black. Head flat, rather pointedly rounded in front, 
central lobe not nearly reaching the front margin ; pronotum 
sinuate in front, its lateral margins sinuate, narrowly white, 
the posterior angles much produced and rounded, base 
nearly straight ; scutellum and elytra punctured, membrane 
slightly smoky, abdomen above black, connexivum with 
whitish spots, beneath pale greenish yellow; legs pale 
ochreous. 
L. 10-11 mm. 
Very rare, Weston-super-Mare; Borrowdale Cumber- 
land, Marshall. 
PENTATOMA, Oliv. 
I have given under this head what the Continental 
authorities refer to three different genera; the characters 
are not very striking, and we have so few species in this 
country that I thought it was hardly desirable to make a 
genus for nearly every species. Our British species may be 
thus distinguished :— 
(4) 1. Connexivum spotted with black (subg. Carpo- 
coris). 
(3) 2. Posterior angles of the pronotum produced into 
sharp ] joints . : . FUSCISPINA. 
(2) 3. Posterior ueles of pronotum simple s . BACCARUM. 
(1) 4. Connexivum unspotted. 
(6) 5. Lateral margins of the pronotum raised (sube. 
Pentatoma) 6 . JUNIPERINA. 
(6) 6. Lateral margins of pronotum not raised (subg. 
Palomena) p ‘ A : , » PRASINA. 
(Suscenus CARPOCORIS.) 
P, fuscispina, Boh. (baccarum, ES. Synopsis).—Dull, 
yellowish ochreous, more or less tinged with red, angles of 
