101 SCUTATINA 



although if I had not done so, it now turns out, from your remark, 

 the verification, of De Geer's observation (which I had never seen) 

 would not have been made." 



Species 2. ACANTHOSOMA DENTATUM. 



CIMEX DENTATUS, De G. Mem. iii, 260, 7 (1773). 



HJEMAGASTEB, Schrk. Enum. Ins. Aust. 270, 520 (1781). 



LITUBATUS, Fab. E. S. iv, 114, 134 (1794) ; S. K 170, 84 (1803) ; 



Fall. Hem. Suec. 24, 4 (1829); Zett. Ins. Lap. 

 259, 3 (1840). 



CQLLARIS, Fab. S. ft. 170, 83 (1803). 

 PENTATOMA STOLLI, Le P. et Serv. Enc. x, 53, 2(1825). 

 ACANTHOSOMA HJCMATOGASTER, Burm. Hanb. ii, 360,4(1835); Kokn. 



Mel. Eut. iv, 59, 187 (1846). 

 HJ3MAGASTER, H. Schf. Norn. Ent. i, 57 (1835) ; Sahib. 



Geoc. Fen. 32, 1 (1848). 



DENTATUM, Dull. Trans. Ent. Soc. i, n. s. Ill, 2 (1851) ; 

 Curt. Trans. Ent. Soc. i, n. s. 271, 2 

 (1852) ; Flor, Rhyn.Liv. i, 101, 2 (1860). 

 ELASMOSTETHTJS DENTATUS, Fieb. Europ. Hem. 328, 1 (1861). 



Elliptic, angulated in front, slightly shining, finely black-punctured, 

 ochreous or greenish on ihepronotim and corium, with the hinder 

 sides of the pronotwn, the clavus, and the inner and posterior 

 margins of the corium, broadly blood-red ; abdomen above black ; 

 connexivum yellow, the last segment and in the ? the 3rd genital 

 segment red. Underside deep ochreous ; stigmata black. 



Head flat ; Face ; central lobe longer than the side lobes, depressed 

 on the apex. Antenna ochreous or brownish, last two joints darker ; 

 1st joint long, passing beyond the head ; 3rd subequal ; 2nd a little 

 longer than the 3rd ; 5th longer than the 2nd ; 4th longer than the 

 5th. Eyes rounded. Ocelli brown. Rostrum reaching to the 2nd 

 pair of coxae, brownish, the end piceous. 



Thorax. Pronotum narrow in front, anterior margin concave, angles 

 a little produced and sinuate behind the eyes ; sides widely divergent; 

 nearly straight ; hinder angles a little produced, very obtuse, rounded ; 

 hinder sides nearly straight, deflected; posterior margin slightly 

 concave ; disk slightly convex, in front flat, ochreous, with a trans- 



