4. ZICRONA r 



HEMIPTERA. 109 



ZICRONA punctata. 



Cimex punctatus, Linn. S. N. i. 720. 34 (1767); DeG. Mem. 



iii. 269. 14 (1773); Fab. E. S. iv. 95. 62 (1794) 8f S. R. 



157. 12(1803) ; Wolff, Ic. dm. 179. t. 18. fig. 173 (1811); 



Fall. Hon. dm. 45. 6 (1807) 8f Hem. Suec. 25. 6 (1826) ; Zett. 



Ins. Lapp. i. 259. 5 (1840). 



Eysarcoris punctatus, Hahn, Wanz. ii. 69. t. 51. fig. 157 (1834). 

 Pentatoma punctatum, H. Sch. Norn. Ent. i. 56 & 93 (1835). 

 Asopus punctatus, Burm. Handb. ii. 378. 2 (1835) ; H. Sch.Wanz. 



vii. 112(1844). 



Arma punctatum, Kolen. Mel. iv. 40. 165 (1846). 

 Zicrona punctata, Sahib. Geoc. Fenn. 19. 1 (1848). 

 ~ stictus, Amyot, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 2 me sef. iii. 424. 31 (1845). 



5. ZICRONA marginella, n. s. 



Z. supra nigra, nitida, punctata ; thorace marginibus lateralibus 

 et antico, fasciaque transversa, rubris; elytrorum scutellique 

 marginibus flavescentibus ; subtus rubra, abdomine fascia lata 

 longitudinali utrinque, nigra. $ 9 . 

 Long. lin. 3^-4. 



Above black, shining, thickly and rather strongly punctured. 

 Head sometimes very narrowly edged with red. Thorax with the 

 anterior and lateral margins, and a transverse band uniting the 

 lateral angles, red ; the margins impunctate, the transverse band 

 punctured with black. Scutellum with the margins yellowish, 

 with a few black punctures. Coriaceous portion of the elytra 

 finely punctured, with the lateral margins yellowish ; membrane 

 brownish, semitransparent. Abdomen red, shining, very finely 

 punctured, with a broad longitudinal band on each side, within 

 the stigmata, a spot at the base of the apical segment, (which 

 sometimes unites with the longitudinal bands,) and a part, or the 

 whole, of the anal apparatus, black. Breast reddish yellow, with 

 the medi- and post-pectus variegated with black. Legs black, 

 with the base of the thighs and a ring on the tibia3 yellowish. 

 Rostrum black, with the base testaceous. Antennae black. 

 a. Hudson's Bay. Presented by G. Barnston, Esq. 



Family 8. CYDNID^E. 



Cydnus, Fab. Syst. Rh. 184 (1803). 



Cydnus and Scaptocoris, Burm. Handb. ii. 374 & 376 (1835). 



Spinipedes, Am. fy Serv. Hem. 87 (1843) ; Amyot, Ann. Soc. Ent. 



Fr. 2 me ser. iii. 425(1845). 

 Rhizocorisiae, Kolen. Mel. Ent. iv. (1846). 



