PENTATOMID^E. 83 



Luteous-brown, thickly and finely black-punctured ; antenna pinky- 

 red; 4th joint with a broad black ring; 5th except the base, black ; 

 abdomen above black ; underside pale luteous, with dark, longi- 

 tudinal punctured streaks ; legs luteous, finely black-punctured. 



Head flat ; Face in front without a notch, rounded ; central lobe 

 short, in front depressed, enclosed by the side lobes. Antennae : 

 tubercle very short, apex rounded ; 1st joint more than half the length 

 of the 2nd ; 2nd and 3rd in length subequal ; 4th and 5th subequal, 

 each longer and stouter than the 3rd. Eyes rather small, prominent, 

 concolorous with the head. Ocelli distant. Rostrum reaching to 

 the 3rd pair of coxae, luteous. 



Thorax. Pronotum in front deflected ; anterior margin slightly 

 concave, cut off obliquely behind the eyes ; sides widely diverging, 

 slightly sinuate, margins yellow, reflexed ; hinder angles prominent, 

 broadly rounded ; hinder sides rounded into the straight posterior 

 margin. Scutellurn punctured like the pronotum ; apex luteous, 

 narrowly rounded. Elytra : Corium punctured finer than the pro- 

 notum and scutellum; anterior and posterior margins a little 

 rounded ; membrane with 7 nerves, luteous, or luteous-brown, with 

 a dark cloud at the inner basal angle. Sternum luteous, finely black- 

 punctured. Legs luteous or reddish, very finely black-punctured ; 

 tarsi concolorous. 



Abdomen, above black ; Connexivum black with yellow intervals. 

 Underside pale luteous, with longitudinal wavy bands or streaks of 

 black punctures ; stigmata black. 



Length, 3| 4J- lines. 



Bare. One specimen taken casually, locality unknown ; and one 

 specimen in the collection of Mr. G-. E. Crotch. 



Species 5. PENTATOMA DISSIMILE. 



CIMEX PRASINUS, De G. Mem. iii, 266, 9 (1773); Wolf, Ic. Cim. 52, t. 

 6, fig. 49 (1801); Fall. Mon. Cim. 47, 11 (1807); 

 Hem. Suec. 28, 10 (1829). 



DISSIMILIS, Fad. E. S. iv, 109, 112 (1794) ; S. R. 167, 59 (1803); 

 Panz. E, G. 33, 13 ; Wolff, Ic. Cim. 53, t. 6, fig. 50 

 (1801) ;' Burm. Handb. ii, 370, 17 (1835); Fieb. 

 Europ. Hem. 339, 4 (1861). 

 PENTATOMA JUNIPEEINA, Le P. et Sen. Enc. x, 57, 19 (1825). 



PRASINUM, Halm, Wanz. ii, 60, pi. 49, fig. 149 (1834), 



