56 SCUTATINA. 



CYDNUS MOIUO, Fab. S. E. 184, 3 (1803) ; Paw. F. G. 32, 15 ; 

 Fall. Mon. Cim. 52, 1 (1807); Hem. Suec. 18, 1 

 (1829); Ilahn, Wanz. 1, 263, t. 25, fig. 84 (C. ni- 

 grita) (1831); Burm. Handb. ii, 375, 6 (1835); 

 Eamb. F. And. ii, 112, 3 (1842) ; Flor, Rhyn. Liv. 

 i, 159, 4(1860). 



PENTATOMA Lep. et Serv. Enc. x, 58 (1825). 



SBHIRUS Am. et Serv. Hem. 96, 1 (1843); Sahib. Geoc. Fen. 

 20, 1 (1848) ; Fieb. Europ. Hem. 367, 2 (1861). 



Black, slightly convex, shining, finely punctured. 



Head broad, almost semicircular before the eyes ; the Crown convex, 

 lightly punctured, the front coarsely punctured. Antenna : 1st 

 joint short, piceous ; 2nd dark yellow ; 3rd black, about the same 

 length as the 2nd; 4th and 5th black, in length subequal, but 

 longer than the 3rd ; the extreme tip of the 3rd and 4th, and the 

 petiole of the 4th and 5th yellowish. Eyes prominent, somewhat 

 pointed. Ocelli large, red. Rostrum brown or piceous, scarcely 

 reaching to the middle coxa3, 2nd joint the longest. 



Thorax. Pronotum : lateral margins finely reflexed ; hinder angles 

 raised ; on the disk, at a short distance from the anterior margin, a 

 broad, transverse, unpunctured space, in form somewhat quadrangu- 

 lar, but with the anterior angles prolonged towards the anterior 

 angles of the pronotum ; the punctures are sharper, deeper, and 

 wider apart than those on the head. Scutellum very slightly con- 

 vex, the deflected apex slightly concave and almost punctureless. 

 Elytra : Corium ; the anterior margin reflexed ; posterior margin 

 slightly sinuate; Membrane fuscous brown, clearer at the base, or 

 all whitish brown. Sternum coarsely punctured ; 3 transverse femoral 

 channels, the anterior and posterior being the deepest ; Prosternum ; 

 the rostral channel shallow, widened in front, the sides terminating 

 in a short, blunt process. Legs : tibice piceous, tarsi paler. 



Abdomen very convex beneath, very minutely punctured. 



Length, 2| 3i lines. 



Not common in the London district ; taken in spring and 

 autumn. 



fipecies 5. SEHIRUS ALBOMARGINATUS. 



CIMEX ALBOMARGINATUS, Fab. E. S. iv, 123, 168 (1794) ; S. 11. 179, 

 121 (1803); Pauz. F. G. 33, 20; Wolff, 

 Ic. Cim. 65, t. 7, fig. 62 (1801). 



