28 Hemiptera-Heteroptera. 
pronotum prominent, black, antennee black. Head elongate, 
its sides more or less dark, its apex suffused with red ; 
pronotum with its front margin deeply concave, sides 
sinuate, strongly reflexed to the posterior angles which are 
raised and produced into two sharp angular processes, mar- 
gins red, angles black, dise closely and rugosely punctured ; 
seutellum and elytra punctured; connexivum with darker 
transverse bands, legs with the tibize and tarsi red. 
L. 14 mm. 
I only know of a few British specimens, all taken in 
Devonshire, one by the late J. A. Brewer, two recorded by 
Parfitt, one from Teignmouth, Capt. Blumer, and two from 
Bickley Woods, Bignell. 
P. bacearum, Linn. ; (verbasci, De Geer).—Brownish 
ochreous, hairy, with more or less of a purplish tint, 
antenne and connexivum banded with black, scutellum 
white at the apex. Head closely and deeply punctured 
with black, cheeks longer than the central lobe; antennz 
with the basal joint pale, the rest black, pale at their bases ; 
pronotum with the sides raised, nearly straight in front and 
rounded at the posterior angles which are not produced, 
disc punctured, with erect scattered hairs ; scutellum punec- 
tured, hairy, its apex narrowly white; elytra punctured, 
membrane smoky brown; connexivum with large black 
spots ; beneath pale ochreous, with rows of black punctures ; 
legs ochreous, hairy, tarsi darker. 
L. 12 mm, 
Hastings, Ewhurst, Butler ; Reigate, Oxshott, Chobham, 
Billups; Devon, Parfitt; Norfolk, Edwards; Glanvilles 
Wootton, Land’s End, Dale ; Scilly Isles, Mason ; Knowle, 
Bewdley, St. Osyth, Barmouth, Blatch ; Howth and Dingle 
Ireland, Carpenter. 
(Suscenus PENTATOMA.) 
P. juniperina, Linn.—Convex, bright olive green, 
margins of pronotum and of the base of the elytra and the 
