96 SCUTATINA. 



Species 1. PICROMERUS BID ENS. 



CIMEX BIDENS, Lin. S. N. i, 718, 23 (1767); De G. Mem. iii, 259, pi. 



13, fig. 9 (1773) ; Rossi, F. Etr. ii, 230, 1297 (1790) ; 



Fab. E. S. iv, 93, 54 (1794); S. R. 155, 2 (1803) ; 



Panz. F. G. 26, 22 ; Wolff, Ic. Cim. 7, t. 1, fig. 7 



(1800); JW/. Mon. Cim. 43, 1 (1807); Hem. Suec. 



22, 1 (1826) ; Zett. Ins. Lap. i, 259, 1 (1840). 

 ARMY Hahn, Wanz. i, 92, t. 15, fig. 51 (1831); Kolen. Mel. 



Ent. ivr, 39, 163 (1846). 



PENTATOMA BIDENS, H. Sch. Norn. Eat. i, 56 & 92 (1835). 

 ASOPUS Burnt. Handb. ii, 379, 6 (1835) ; H. Schf. Wanz. vii, 



113 (1844). 



PICROMERUS Am. et Serv. Hem. 84, 1 (1843) ; Sahib. Geoc. Fen. 

 18, 1 (1848); Fieb. Europ. Hem. 349, 1 (1861). 

 ASOPUS (PICROMERUS) BIDENS, Flor, Rhyn. Liv. i, 92, 3 (1860). 



Luteous, thickly black-punctured, often so much as to appear entirely 

 piceous, slightly shining ; head bronzy : underside rufous or 

 piceous. 



Head bronzy ; Crown with two central, nearly unpunctured lines 

 reaching to the base of the central lobe ; Face ; central lobe pos- 

 teriorly a little raised. Antenna red, tip of the 5th joint piceous or 

 black. Eyes piceous. Ocelli red. Rostrum luteous. 



Thorax. Pronotum ; sides and spines pitchy-black, the serrated 

 lateral margin yellow ; on the anterior third of the disk two large, 

 subangular, nearly unpunctured spaces, on their posterior margin a 

 small, smooth, orange spot. Scutellum crenate-punctate, clouded 

 with piceous ; extreme basal angle depressed, black, within this 

 raised into a small, smooth, yellow spot ; apex narrowly orange. 

 Elytra ; Corium less and more finely punctured than the pronotum ; 

 Membrane dark brown, nervures strong. Sternum luteous, black- 

 punctured; on each side of the yellow mesosternal keel a large, 

 usually black, quadrate spot ; on the anterior edge of the metasternum 

 a large, lobate, raised, yellow spot. Legs rufous, with a pink tinge ; 

 thighs finely brown-punctate ; tibia, towards the centre yellow ; 

 tarsi ; 1st and 2nd joints pinky red, 3rd piceous. 



Abdomen, above piceous-black ; beneath rufous or piceous, finely 



