HEMIPTERA. 233 



Cydnus, p., and Edessa, p., Fab. Syst. R. (1803). 



Pentatoma, p., Pal. Beauv. Ins. (1805); LeP. fy Serv. Enc. 



MM. x. (1825) ; Hahn, Wanz. ii. (1834) ; H. Sch. Norn. Ent. 



i. (1835) $ Wanz. vii. (1844). 

 Pentatoma, Am. fy Serv. Hem. 128 (1843). 

 Pentatoma et Mormidea, Sahib. Geoc. Fenn. (1848). 

 Carpocoris, Kolen. Mel. Ent. iv. 45 (1846). 



1. PENTATOMA trisignata. 



Cimex trisignatus, Germ. Silb. Rev. Ent. v. 171. 104 (1837). 

 Pentatoma trisignatum, H. Sch. Wanz. vii. 93 & 97. t. 244, 

 fig. 760 (1844). 



ka. Port Natal. From Dr. Krauss' Collection. 

 b. Cape of Good Hope. From M. Drege's Collection. 



c. South Africa. Presented by the Earl of Derby. 



d. South Africa. Presented by Dr. A. Smith. 



e. Congo. Presented by Sir John Richardson, M.D. 



; 



PENTATOMA goniodes, n. s. 



P. lutea, fusco-punctata ; humeris prominentibus, nigris; scu- 

 telli apice albido, impunctato; antennis ferrugineis, basi pedi- 

 busque viridibus. ? . 

 Long. lin. 4-4 J. 



Ovate, broad, pale yellow tinged with green, punctured with 

 brown. Head rounded in front, very finely punctured. Thorax 

 with the lateral angles prominent, subspinous, blunt, black ; the 

 posterior portion, as far as the line of the lateral angles, more 

 coarsely punctured than the rest of the surface, and thence ap- 

 pearing darker; between the lateral angles runs an indistinct, 

 transverse, yellow impunctate streak. Scutellum with the base 

 sparingly and irregularly punctured, the middle thickly punc- 

 tured and tinged with green, the apex rather broad, whitish, 

 impunctate. Coriaceous portion of the elytra red beneath, 

 slightly tinged with ferruginous on the upper surface, finely and 

 irregularly punctured, with the outer margin, both above and 

 beneath, yellowish green ; membrane brownish, semitransparent, 

 with a dark brown patch on the inner basal angle. Back of the 

 abdomen black, obscure, very thickly and finely punctured; 

 margins pale greenish yellow. Abdomen beneath with a band 

 of green punctures down each side within the stigmata, and an 

 irregular line of the same across each segment near the posterior 

 margin. Breast more or less punctured with green. Legs pale 

 green, with the tarsi brownish. Rostrum pale green, with the 

 tip black. Antennae orange, with the two basal joints green, 

 a. S. Africa. Presented by Dr. A. Smith. 



