54 SCUTATINA. 



pilose; 2nd and 3rd joints in length subequal, larger than the 

 1st ; 4th and 5th subequal in length and breadth, but longer and 

 thicker than the 2nd and 3rd. Eyes rounded, rather prominent. 

 Ocelli very small, red. Rostrum piceous, reaching to the middle 

 coxae, 3rd joint larger than the 2nd ; the rostral channel shallow. 



Thorax. Pronotum transverse, quadrangular, gradually rounded 

 to the front, slightly convex, anteriorly and posteriorly deflected ; 

 anterior margin very concave : lateral margins narrowly incrassated, 

 yellowish ; posterior margin gradually rounded. Across the centre 

 of the disk is a shallow, transverse furrow, each end (which does not 

 extend to the side) being much deeper ; before and adjoining this 

 furrow is a transverse, smooth, unpunctured space, narrow in the 

 middle, wider at the ends, extending almost to the anterior angles 

 of the pronotum. Scutellum: the sides of the apex incrassated 

 and, with the deflected portion, unpunctured. Elytra: Corium ; 

 the punctures closer than those on the pronotum and scutellum ; the 

 anterior margin incrassated, slightly reflexed, yellowish ; posterior 

 margin slightly sinuate ; Membrane fuscous. Sternum finely punc- 

 tured : Prosternum ; the rostral channel shallow. Legs and tarsi 

 black. 



Abdomen beneath very convex, delicately punctured ; Connexivum 

 spotted with yellowish. 



Length, 2 3 lines. 



Uncommon. Pangbourne (Wollaston) ; Portland {Dale). 



Species 3. SEHIRUS BIGUTTATUS. 



CIMEX BIGUTTATUS, Lin. F. S. 250, 935 (1761) ; S. N. i, 722, 54 (1767) ; 

 Scop. Ent. Cam. 122, 356 (1763) ; Fab. E. S. iv, 

 122, 164 (1794); S. R. 178, 116 (1803); 

 Panz. E. G. 32, 13. 



CYDNUS Fall. Mon. Cim. 53, 3 (1807) ; Hem. Suec. 19, 

 3 (1829) ; Hahn, Wanz. i, 169, t. 26, fig. 88 

 (1831) ; Zett. Faun. Ins. Lap. 1, 461, 2 (1832) ; 

 Ins. Lap. 258, 2 (1840) ; Burm. Handb. ii, 

 374, 3 (1835) ; Kolen. Mel. Ent. iv, 65, 193 

 (1846) ; Flor, Rhyn. Liv. i, 162, 6 (1860). 



TRITOMEGAS Am. et Serv. Hem. 98, 2 (1843) ; Sahib. Geoc. 

 Fen. 22, 2 (1848). 



SEHIRUS Fieb. Europ. Hem. 367, 4 (1861). 



