98 SCUTATINA. 



Abdomen long, semi-elliptic, above flat, beneath convex ; in the 

 centre of the 2nd segment a short, blunt process, pointing forwards. 

 Connexivum broad. 



Species 1. TROPICORIS RUFIPES. 



CIMEX RUFIPES, Lin. S. N. i, 719, 24 (1767); De G. Mem. iii, 253, 

 2 (1773); Fab. E. S. iv, 93, 56 (1794); S. K 

 156, 5 (1803) ; Wdf t Ic. Cim. 9, t. 1, fig. 9 (1800) ; 

 Fall. Mon. Cim. 46, 7 (1807); Hem. Suec. 26, 7 

 (1829); Burn. Handb. ii, 366, 7 (1835); Am. et 

 Serv. Hem. 149, 1 (1843); Sahib. Geoc. Een. 30, 

 13 (1848) ; Fhr, RJiyn. Liv. i, 107, 1 (I860). 



PENTATOMA Le P.et Serv. Enc. x, 55, 13 (1825) ; H. Sch. Nom. Eiit. 

 i, 56 & 93 (1835). 



TROPICORIS Hahn, Wanz. ii, 54, t. 47, fig. 145 (1834) ; Kolen. Mel. 

 Ent. iv, 44, 169 (1846); Fieb. Europ. Hem. 330 

 (1861). 



Luteous, thickly black-punctured, shining; beneath orange red; 

 sides of pronotum very sinuate, forming in the middle a broad, 

 projecting process. 



Head with a bronzy lustre, darker at the sides ; Crown with two 

 parallel, smooth lines from the base to the central lobe of the face, 

 which posteriorly is raised, its apex flat, depressed. Antenna : first 

 3 joints and base of the 4th red, the rest piceous or black. Eyes 

 brown. Ocelli red. Rostrum luteous, end of the labrum and the 4th 

 joint entirely piceous. 



Thorax. Pronotum ; the punctures in short series ; front black, 

 more or less mixed with orange ; lateral margins and the tooth 

 at the anterior angles orange ; lateral process black. Scutellum 

 crenate-punctate ; close to the basal angles a small whitish or orange 

 spot ; apex with a slight channel, nearly unpunctured, broadly orange. 

 Elytra : Corium exterior to the costal nerve a little recurved ; Mem- 

 brane brown. Sternum : Prosternum finely black-punctured ; Meso- 

 and Metasternum with few punctures ; on each side of the yellow 

 mesosternal keel a quadrate smooth space ; Legs : ihiglis reddish- 

 brown thickly spotted with black ; tibice, inwardly with long fine 



