RAPHIGASTRID.E. 107 



margin concave, with a tuft of hairs in the centre, and the sides pro- 

 duced into a small, obtuse tooth, not reaching so far as the point of 

 the connexivum ; in the 9 above, the posterior margin of the green 

 3rd segment is nearly straight, notched in the centre, and there 

 spotted black, the sides rounded off within the points of the con- 

 nexivum. Underside entirely pale apple-green, delicately con- 

 colorously crenate-punctate ; the Stigmata concolorous. 



Length, 4^ to 4 lines. 



Common on juniper bushes, in autumn and spring. 



Species 4. ACANTHOSOMA H^MORRHOIDALE. 



CIMEX HJEMORRHOIDALE, Lin. F. S. 248, 925 (1761) ; S. N. 720, 35 

 (1767); De 0. Mem. iii, 254, 3, pi. 34, 

 fig. 7 (1773); Schrk. '$. B. ii, 70, 1099 

 (1801); Fab. E. S. iv, 98, 76 (1794); S. R. 

 160, 27 (1803); Don. Brit. Ins. vii, 5, pi. 

 218, fig. 2 (1798) ; Wolff, Ic. Cim. 10, t. 1, 

 fig. 10 (1800) ; Fall. Mon. Cim. 44, 3 (1807) ; 

 Hem. Suec. 23, 3 (1829). 



CIMEX PABULINUS, Harris, Exp. Eng. Ins. 88, pi. 26, fig. 2, (1776). 

 ACANTHOSOMA HJEMORRHOIDALE, Curt. B. E. i, 28 (1824); H. Schf. 



Norn. Ent. i, 57 (1835); Burm. 

 Handb. ii, 360, 3 (1835) ; Am. et 

 Serv. Hem. 154, 1 (1843); Kolen. 

 Mel Ent. iv, 58, 186 (1846) ; Hall. 

 Trans. Ent. Soc. i, n. s. 110, 1 

 (1851) ; Flor, Rhyn. Liv. i, 99, 1 

 (I860). 



PENTATOMA HJEMORRHOIDALIS, Le P. et Serv. Enc. x, 53, 1 (1825). 

 CLINOCORIS Habn, Wanz. ii, 71, t. 52, fig. 158 



(1834). 

 ACANTHOSOMA Fieb. Europ. Hem. 327 (1861). 



Elliptic, angled in front, slightly shining, ochreous or greenish, 

 strongly black-punctured ; hinder angles of the pronotum much 

 produced ; underside ochreous or reddish-ochreous. 



Head flat, finely punctured ; Face ; margins of the side lobes 

 rather incrassated ; central lobe longer than the side lobes, depressed 



