52 SCUTATINA. 



Species 1. SEHIRUS BICOLOR. 



CIMEX BICOLOR, Lin. F. S. 250, 936 (1761) ; S. N. i, 722, 55 (1767); 

 Scop.? Ent. Cam. 122, 357 (1763); De G. Mem. 

 iii, 268, 12 (1773) ; Fab. E. S. iv, 121, 161 (1794) ; 

 S. E,. 176, 109 (1803) ; Don. Brit. Ins. ix, 21, pi. 

 297 (1800) ; Wolff, Ic. dim. 63, t. 7, fig. 60 (1801) ; 

 Panz. F. G. 32, 11. 



NUBiLOSA, Harris, Exp. Eng. Ins. 90, pi. 26, fig. 8 (1776). 

 CYDNUS BICOLOR, Fall. Mon. Cim. 53, 2 (1807) ; Hem. Suec. 19, 2 

 (1829) ; Hahn, Wauz. i, 192, t. 31, fig. 99 (1831) ; 

 Zelt. Faun. Ins. Lap. i, 461, 1 (1832) ; Ins. Lap. 

 258, 1 (1840); ra.Handb. ii, 374, 1 (1835); 

 Kolen. Mel. Ent. iv, 63, 191 (1846) ; Flor, Rhjn. 

 Liv. 1, 157, 3 (1860). 



PENTATOMA BICOLOR, Le P. et Serv. Enc. x, 58,25 (1825). 

 TRITOMEGAS Am. et Serv. Hem. 98, 1 (1843) ; Sahib. Geoc. 



Fenn. 21, ] (1848). 

 SEHIRUS Fieb. Europ. Hem. 368, 7 (1861). 



Black, shining, finely punctured; a spot on the anterior lateral 

 margin of the pronotum, a larger dentate one on the base, and 

 another similar one at the apex of the anterior margin of the 

 corium, white, the upper side of the tibice also white. 



Head subtrapeziform ; Crown convex, with few punctures ; Face, 

 side lobes widely recurved; anterior margin with a wide but 

 shallow notch. Antenna black, pilose ; 2nd joint half the length 

 of the 3rd; 3rd, 4th, and 5th in length subequal. Eyes rounded 

 rather prominent. Ocelli small, reddish. Rostrum black, reaching a 

 little beyond the middle coxaB ; 2nd and 3rd joints of equal length ; 

 rostral channel shallow. 



Thorax. Pronotum transverse, anteriorly and posteriorly de- 

 flected ; the sides gradually convergent and rounded to the front ; 

 anterior margin very concave, lateral margins delicately reflexed, 

 posterior margin slightly rounded. Across the centre of the disk is 

 a shallow transverse furrow, deeper at the ends, which do not reach 

 the sides ; before and adjoining this furrow is a transverse unpunc- 

 tured space, narrow in the middle and widened at each end an- 

 teriorly ; from the anterior angles a large white spot extends about 



