60 SCUTATINA. 



nerves. Sternum : Prosternum with a deep rostral channel, of which 

 the end in front is widened and the raised margin extended to the 

 base of the antennse, forming a channel for their reception ; Meso- 

 and Metasternum with the rostral channel shallower; Pro- and 

 Mesosternum with a deep transverse channel. Legs, short, strong ; 

 thighs compressed ; tibia with short, fine spines ; on the outer side 

 a channel, deepest in the first pair ; tarsi, 2nd joint short ; all the 

 joints hairy beneath. 



Abdomen convex above and beneath ; Connexivum moderate. 



Species 1. ODONTOSCELIS FULIGINOSUS. 



CIMEX FULIGINOSUS, Linn. S. N. i, 716, 8 (1767); Fab. E. S. iv, 90, 42 



(1794); Wolff, Ic. Cim. 50, t. 5, fig. 47 (1801). 

 LITURA, Fab. E. S. iv, 90, 43 (1794). 



TETYRA FULIGINOSA, Fab. S. R. 139, 50 (1803); Panz. F. G. 112, 14; 

 Fall. MOD. Cim. 42, 2 (1807) ; Hem. Suec. 15, 5 

 (1829) ; Curt. B. E. xv, fig. 685 (1838). 

 LITURA, Fab. S. R. 139, 51 (1803). 



SCUTELLERA FULIGINOSA, Lat. Gen. iii, 114, 4 (1807) ; Lam. Hist. Nat. 

 iii, 491, 3 (1816); Schill. Arb. u. Verancl. 

 160 (184-3). 

 TETYRA CARBONARIA, Zett, Act, Holm. 70, 19 (1819); Fall. Hem. 



Suec. 13, 3 (1829). 



ODONTOSCELIS FULIGINOSUS, Lap. Hem. 74 (1832) ; Burnt. Handb. ii, 



385, 3 (1835); H. Sch. Norn. Ent. i, 53 

 & 88 (1835) ; Am. et Serv. Hem. 69, 1 

 (1843); Kolen. Mel. Ent. iv, 5, 122 

 (1846) ; Flor, Rhyn. Liv. i, 152 (1860) ; 

 Fieb. Europ. Hem. 378, 2 (1861). 

 URSOCORIS FULIGINOSA et LITURA, Hahn, Wanz. ii, 49 & 50, t. 46, fig. 



142 & 143 (1834). 

 ARCTOCORIS Germ. Zeits. i. 47, 1, (1839). 



Fusco-luteous, black-pnnctured, slightly shining, covered with very 

 short, depressed pile, the circumference with strong, projecting, 

 yellow hairs. Underside pitchy black, finely pilose, punctured. 



Head black above and beneath. Antenna black or piceous. 

 Ocelli very small, red. Rostrum luteous, the last two joints piceous. 



