100 SCUTATINA. 



Species 1. PIEZODORUS PURPUREIPENNIS. 



? CIMEX PTJRPTJKEIPENNIS, De G. \i\, 258, 5, t. 13, fig. 15 (1773). 



PBASINUS, Schr. F. B. 73, 1105 (1801), nee Liu. 

 PENTATOMA PURPUIIEIPENNIS, Hahn, Wanz. ii, 62, t. 51, fig. 151 (1831). 



JUNIPERINA, L. Duf. llech. Hem. 28 (1833). 

 CIMEX ALLIACETJS, Germ. Faun. Ins. ix, 14. 



INCARNATUS, Germ. Faun. Ins. iv, 23. 

 LITURATUS, (King), Burnt. Handb. 365, 3 (1835). 



KAPHIGASTER PURPUREIPENNIS, Ramb. Faun. And. ii, 125, 1 (1838). 



INCARNATUS, Kolen. Mel. Ent. iv, 56, 183 (1846). 

 PIEZODORUS DE GEERI, Fieb. Europ. Hem. 329 (1861). 



Above, deeply, finely, distinctly black-punctured, slightly shining, 

 pale green, or with the corium and the base of the pronotum 

 purplish ; beneath entirely pale green or yellowish ; abdomen 

 above black ; legs yellow. 



Head. Antenna reddish, base paler ; Eyes and Ocelli brown. 



Thorax. Pronotum ; lateral margins reflexed, yellow ; on the 1st 

 third of the disk two transverse, narrow, irregular, smooth, annular 

 spaces, punctured within ; sometimes almost obliterated. Elytra : 

 Corium, except the anterior portion, punctured finer than the pro- 

 notum or scutellum ; anterior margin at the base yellowish ; Mem- 

 Irane reaching beyond the abdomen, colourless, transparent. Wings 

 colourless, transparent. Legs yellow or greenish. 



Abdomen, above black ; Connexivum greenish or yellowish, in- 

 teriorly narrowly black. Underside yellowish, greenish, or ochreous, 

 the punctures shallow, confluent; Stigmata black; the recurved 

 spine on the 2nd segment reaching to beyond the 2nd pair of coxa?. 



Length, 56 lines. 



Common on furze and broom bushes, in the autumn. 



Genus 3. ACANTHOSOMA, Curt. 



Head rather narrow, gradually less from the eyes to the apex ; 

 central lobe as long or longer than the side lobes, widest at the 

 extremity. Antennae slender; tubercle very short ; 1st joint as long 

 or longer than the head. Eyes small. Ocelli small, distant. Eos- 



