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3rd shorter ; 4th and 5th stoutest. Eostrum reaching to the 2nd 

 pair of coxae; basal joint very broad, long; 2nd joint long; 3rd and 4th 

 short ; rostral channel shallow, sides a little produced in front. 



Thorax. Pronotum subconvex, subtrapezoidal ; anterior margin 

 very concave, renexed ; anterior angles cut off straight, exteriorly 

 produced into a very small, obtuse tooth ; lateral margins straight, 

 renexed ; hinder angles raised, obtuse ; posterior margin rounded ; 

 on the first third of the disk a transverse raised smooth line. Sou- 

 tellum more than half the length of the abdomen, at the base convex, 

 sides sinuate, apex small. Elytra : Gorium ; anterior margin rounded, 

 renexed; posterior margin slightly concave or sinuate; Membrane 

 with 6 long nerves. Sternum : Prosternum ; on each side a trans- 

 verse channel ; Mesosternimi with a slight keel. Legs : tibice on the 

 upper side with a channel the whole length; tarsi; 1st joint nearly 

 as long as the 2nd and 3rd together ; 2nd short. 



Abdomen beneath convex ; Connescivum moderate. 



Species 1. STRACHIA ORNATA. 



CIMEX OJINATUS, Lin. E. S. 251, 937 (1761) ; S. N. 1, 723, 56 (1767); 

 Scop. Ent. Cam. 123, 361 (1766) ; Fab. E. S. iv, 117, 

 144 (1794) ; S. H. 172, 93 (1803) ; Panz. E. G. 33, 

 21 ; Wolff, Ic. Cim. 15, t. 2, fig. 15 (1800) ; Fall. 

 Mon. Cim. 49, 15 (1807); Hem. Suec. 30,15 (1829); 

 Burm. Handb. ii, 368, 12 (1835) ; Ramb. Faun. And. 

 ii, 118, 1 (1842). 



DOMINULUS, Scop. Ent. Cam. 124, 362 (1766). 



FESTIVUS, Lin. S. N. ii, 723, 57 (1767) ; Fab. E. S. iv, 118, 151 



(1794); S. R. 173, 95 (1803); Panz. E. G. 6,19; 



Wolff, Ic. Cim. 61, t. 6, fig. 58 (1801). 

 STRACHIA FESTIVA, Hahn, Wanz. 1, 181, t. 29, fig. 93 (1831). 

 PENTATOMA ORNATA, L. Duf. Rech. 30, 6 (1833). 



EURYDEMA HERBACEUM et PICTUM, H. Schf. Panz. E. G. 115, 12 & 116, 



12 & 13 (1835). 

 STRACHIA ORNATA, HERBACEA et PICTA, Hahn, Wanz. iii, 12, 13 & 14, t. 



77, fig. 238240 (1835). 

 EURYDEMA ORNATA, Am. et Serv. Hera. 126, 1 (1843); Sahib. Geoc. Een. 



24, 1 (1848). 



EURYDEMA ORNATUM, FESTIVUM, DECORATUM, HERBACEUM, LHESGICUM, 

 ARMENIACUM et PICTUM, Kolen. Mel. Ent. iv, 25 29, 144151 



(1846). 



EURYDEMA ORNATUM, Flor, Rbyn. Liv. i, 144, 1 (1860). 

 STUACHIA FESTIVA et ORNATA, Fieb. Europ. Hem. 342, 1 & 2 (1861). 



