66 SCUTATINA. 



straight to the hinder angle ; on the first third of the disk an indis- 

 tinct transverse sinuated line; in the centre a faint longitudinal 

 line. Scutellum at the base crenate-punctate, the rest with finer 

 punctures than the pronotum ; close to and touching the pronotum 

 are two distant, small, ovate, whitish, shining nodules ; the central 

 keel very short and ill defined. Elytra : the uncovered portion 

 punctured like the scutellum. Sternum : Prosternum black-punc- 

 tured, especially towards the sides ; Meso- and Metasternum finer 

 and more sparsely punctured. Legs luteous or reddish ; thighs 

 beneath with black punctures in rows ; tibiae with a row of connected 

 black punctures on the inner side ; tarsi concolorous with the tibiae, 

 claws and pulvilli rather darker. 



Abdomen above black, smooth ; beneath luteo-ferrugineous, deli- 

 cately black punctured; Connexivum horizontal, the upper side 

 deflected, alternately broadly black and fulvous, coarsely punctured. 



length, 4 5 lines. 



In the lighter-coloured examples the head and pronotum are tra- 

 versed longitudinally by dark-brown stripes ; of these, on the pro- 

 notum, one on each side of the pale central line is the more conspi- 

 cuous: the scutellum is also more or less clouded with brown, 

 leaving three clear subovate patches ; the largest of these reaches 

 from the apex nearly half the length upwards, the others are placed 

 above this, but -more towards the sides. 



Scopoli ('Ent. Carn.', p. 120), remarks that in all the varieties 

 the colouring of the insect beneath is always the same. " Subtus 

 autem in omnibus hisce meis varietatibus color unus et idem, nempe 

 ferrugineus, punctis fuscis ubique variegatus." 



According to Leon Dufour this species is common in France upon 

 the ears of wheat, which it pierces 'and sucks while they are in a 

 green state. 



Folkestone, July to September. 



Species 2. EURYGASTER HOTTENTOTTUS. 



CIMEX HOTTENTOTTA, Fad. E. S. iv, 87, 31 (1794) ; Panz. F. G. 11], 7. 



THYREOCOIUS CUCULLATA, Schrk. F B. ii, 68, 1094- (1801). 



TETYRA HOTTENTOTTA, Fab. S. R. 136, 37 (1803) ; Bvrm. Handb. ii, 

 390, 2 (1835); H. Schf. Norn. Ent. 1, 53 

 (1835) ; Germ. Zeits. 1, 73, 2 (1839) ; Ramb. 

 Faun. And. ii, 101, 6 (1842). 



