92 SCUTATINA. 



broad, rounded. Elytra: Corium ; anterior and posterior margins 

 a little rounded; Memlrane with 7 nerves. Sternum; on each 

 side an oblique, transverse channel across the pro- and mesosternum ; 

 Mesosternum with a slight keel. Legs : tibia outwardly flat, the 

 fore pair widened at the end, the outer margins reflexed; on the 

 underside a fine, acute spine ; tarsi hairy beneath ; 1st joint broad, 

 as long as 2nd and 3rd together. 



Abdomen semi-elliptic, convex beneath; Connexivum broad, ex- 

 tending beyond the elytra. 



Species 1. RHACOGNATHUS PUNCTATUS. 



CIMEX PUNCTATUS, Lin. S. N. i, 720; 34 (1767) ; De G. Mem. iii, 269, 



14(1773); Fab. E. S. iv, 95, 62 (1794); 8. R. 



157, 12 (1803) ; Wolff, Ic. Cim. 179, t. 18, fig. 



173(1811); Fall. Won. Cim. 45, 6 (1807); Hem. 



Suec. 25, 6 (1826) ; Zett. Ins. Lap. 1, 259, 5 (1840). 

 EYSARCOHIS PUNCTATUS, Hahn, "VVanz. ii, 69, t. 51, fig. 157 (1834). 

 PENTATOMA PUNCTATUM, H. Sch. Nom. Ent. i, 56 & 93 (1835). 

 ASOPUS PUNCTATUS, Burm. Handb. ii, 378, 2 (1835) ; H. Schf. Wanz. vii, 



112 (1844). 



ASOPUS (ZICRONA) PUNCTATUS, Flor, Rhyn. Liv. i, 91, 2 (1860). 

 UHACOGNATHUS PUNCTATUS, Fieb. Europ. Hem. 347. 



Luteous, more or less obscured with fine black punctures, sometimes 

 altogether dark, with a greenish tinge ; beneath luteous, black- 

 punctured, or black. 



Head bronzy or black ; Face; central lobe a little raised at the 

 base and depressed in front. Antenna black, the extremities of the 

 2nd and 3rd joints narrowly .yellow. Eyes brown. Ocelli red. 

 Rostrum piceous. 



Thorax. Pronotum ; in the centre a narrow, longitudinal, yellow 

 line ; in pale examples the front and sides black, the lateral margins 

 yellow. Scutellum ; base rather convex, outer margin depressed; 

 just within the basal angles a deep fovea ; down the centre a slight 

 indication of a keel. Sternum luteous, black-punctured, the sides 

 black. Legs: coxae yellow; thighs black above, yellow at the base 

 and beneath ; tibiae black, with a broad yellow ring in the centre ; 

 tarsi black. 



