96 



HEMIPTERA. 



Asopus, p., Burnt. Handb. ii. (1835); H. Sch. Wanz. vii. (1844). 

 Arma, Am. fy Serv. Hem. 84 (1843). 



* Abdomen unarmed. 



1. ARMA custos. 



Cimex custos, Fab. E. S. iv. 94. 58 (1794) # S. R. 157. 7 (1803) ; 



Wolff, Ic. dm. 137. t. 14. fig. 131 (1804). 

 Pentatoma custos, Le P. fy Serv. Enc. x. 56. 14 (1825) ; H. Sch. 



Norn. Ent. i. 56 & 92 (1835). 

 Arma custos, Hahn, Wanz. i. 95. t. 15. fig. 52 (1831); Am. $ 



Serv. Hem. 85. 1 (1843); Kolen. Mel. iv. 41. 166 (1846). 

 Asopus custos, Burm. Handb. ii. 379. 5 (1835); H. Sch. Wanz. 



vii. 112 (1844). 



Arma, Amyot, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 2 me ser. iii. 422. 28 (1845). 

 Stoll, Pun. 59. pi. 14. fig. 96. 



a. S. of France. 



b. Geneva. Presented by M. Goureau. 



c. . 



2. ARMA lurida. 



Cimex luridus, Fab. Syst. Ent. 701. 25 (1775), E. S. iv. 94. 57 



(1794) $ S. R. 157. 6 (1803); Panz. F. G. 92. 9; Wolff, Ic. 



dm. 130. t. 13. fig. 130 (1804) ; Fall. Mon. dm. 46. 8 (1807) 



fyHem.Suec. 26. 8(1826). 



Arma lurida, Hahn, Wanz. i. 97. t. 15. fig. 53 (1831). 

 Pentatoma luridum, H. Sch. Norn. Ent. i. 56 & 92 (1835). 

 Asopus luridus, Burm. Handb. ii. 379. 4 (1835) ; H. Sch. Wanz. 



vii. 114 (1844). 



Arma luridum, Kolen. Mel. iv. 40. 164 (1846). 

 Pelidnus, Amyot, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 2 me ser. iii. 422. 29 (1845). 



a. Germany. 



b. England. 



t Abdomen with a spine at the base. 



. Ventral spine long, passing the posterior coxce. 



3. ARMA grandis, n. s. 



A. supra grisea, fusco-punctata, abdominis marginibus fulvo 

 nigroque variegatis ; corpore subtus cum pedibus luteo-fulvo, 

 fusco-punctato ; antennis tarsisque ferrugineis. <? 9 

 Long. $ lin. 8|, 9 lin. 9-10. 



Above greyisb testaceous, thickly punctured with brown. Eyes 

 brown. Thorax with a small spine on each side of the anterior 

 margin, the antero-lateral margins slightly crenulated, the lateral 

 angles produced into flat acute spines ; two small brassy black 



