HEMIPTERA. 75 



Genus 1. OXYNOTUS. 



Tetyra, p., Fab. Syst. Rh. (1803). 



Oxynotus, Lap. Hem. 74 (1832); Hahn, Wanz. iii. 28 (1835); 



Germ. Zeits. i. 44 (1839) ; Am. fy Serv. Hem. 59 (1843). 

 Podops, p., Burm. Handb. ii. (1835). 



1. OXYNOTUS gibbus. 



Tetyra gibba, Fab. S. R. 141. 63 (1803). 



Oxynotus gibbus, Lap. Hem. 74. pi. 55. fig. 6 (1832) ; Hahn, 



Wanz. iii. 28. t. 82. fig. 250 (1835); Germ. Zeits. i. 44. 1 



(1839); Am. $ Serv. Hem. 59. 1 (1843). 

 Podops gibbus, Burm. Handb. ii. 386. 1 (1835). 

 Stoll, Pun. 157. pi. 39. fig. 281. 



a. Montevideo. Presented by the Entomological Club. 



b. Brazil. Presented by J. C. Bowring, Esq. 



c. Columbia. From M. Goudot's Collection. 



d. Venezuela. From Mr. Dyson's Collection. 



e. Brazil. 



t PENTATOMOIDES. 



Scutellum generally triangular, never covering the whole inner 

 margin of the elytra. 



Pentatoma, Lam. Syst. 293 (1801); Lat. Gen. iii. 115 (1807); 



Le P. $ Serv. Enc. x. 121 (1825). 

 Pentatomida, Leach, Ed. Enc. ix. 51 (1815). 

 Pentatomites, Lap. Hem. 55 (1832). 

 Pentatomites-Pentatomoides, Spin. Hem. 270 (1837). 

 Coniscuti, Am. $ Serv. Hem. 72 (1843); Sahib. Geoc. Fenn. 17 



(1848). 

 Lachanocorisiee, Thamnocorisiae, Dendrocorisiae, et Rhizocorisiae, 



Kolen. Mel. iv. (1846). 



Family 7- 



Antennae of five joints; basal joint very short, not passing the 

 anterior margin of the head. Rostrum long, passing the inter- 

 mediate coxae, very thick ; basal joint generally the thickest, and 

 not inclosed in a canal of the lower surface of the head *, second 

 joint longer than the third. Anterior tibiae with a small spine 

 on the inner surface. 



Asopus, Burm. Handb. ii. 377 (1835). 

 Spissirostri, Am. Sf Serv. Hem. 74 (1843). 

 Thamnocorisiae, p., Kolen. Mel. iv. (1846). 



* The keels which form the canal of the lower side of the head in 

 the other Pentatomo'ides are present in the Asopida, although very 

 small, and only covering the base of the first joint. 



