76 SCUTATINA. 



coppery-black spots beyond the middle and towards the under side, 

 and two small spots at the apex, one above, the other beneath $ tibice, 

 at their insertion, with two black dots above and one beneath; 

 tarsi luteous ; 1st and 2nd joints at the tip, and the 3rd wholly, 

 piceous. 



Abdomen convex, above black, beneath coppery-black, punctured 

 finer than the sternum ; Connexivum moderate, of equal breadth 

 throughout ; above and beneath black, with marginal, triangular yel- 

 low spots. 



Length, 3 lines. 



Darenth "Wood, Kent, by sweeping, in June. 



Species 2. EYSARCORIS ^NEUS. 



CIMEX CENSUS, Scop. Ent. Cam. 122, 358 (1763). 



FTJCATUS, Rossi, F. E. 13, 11 (1790). 



PERLATUS, Fab. E. S. iv, 125, 177 (1794) ; Wolff, Ic. Cim. 68, t. 7, 



fig. 65 (1801) ; Vail. Hon. Cim. 50. 18 (1807) ; 



Hem. Suec. 32, 18 (1829). 

 CYDNUS Fab. S. R. 187, 15 (1803). 

 EYSARCORIS PERLATUS, Hahn, Wanz. ii, 67, t. 51, fig. 155 (1834). 

 PENTATOMA PERLATUM, H. Schf. Waiiz. vii, 93 (1844). 

 EYSARCORIS JENEUM, Kolen. Mel. Ent. iv, 32, 156 (1846). 

 EUSARCORIS JENEUS. Fieb. Europ. Hem. 332, 2 (1861). 



Shining, whittsh shaded with dusky or brown, punctured ; pronotum 

 in front, with two large subquadrate coppery-black patches ; 

 scutellum with a large white nodule at each basal angle. 



Head coppery -black, rugosely punctured; Crown with a central 

 whitish line. Antenna : first 3 joints luteous, with a brown line 

 beneath ; 4th black, the base luteous ; 5th black. Eyes brown. 

 Ocelli small, brown. Rostrum luteous ; labrum and 3rd and 4th 

 joints brown. 



Thorax. Pronotum ; sides sinuate, especially towards the poste- 

 rior angles, which are much produced, forming an obtuse point 

 projecting beyond the base of the elytra ; lateral margins whitish, in 

 front a little widened, anterior angles sharp, but not toothed ; disk 

 in front with two large, subquadrate, coppery-black patches, of 

 which the inner angle is bordered by a strong white line, the tri- 

 angular space between the patches and the centre of the disk 

 whitish, posterior and lateral portions of the disk dusky. Scutellwn 



