HEMIPTERA. 241 



testaceous, with the tip black. Antennae pale green, with the 

 two apical joints brownish. 



a. . Presented by M. Percheron. 



19. PENTATOMA maculata, n. s. 



P. ferrugineo- vel virascenti-grisea, nigro-punctata, thorace ma- 

 culis 11, scutello basi 5, pallidioribus ; abdominis marginibus 

 fulvo nigroque maculatis ; corpore subtus concolori pallido- 

 maculato. $ 9 . 

 Long. $ lin. 5-|, 9 lin. 6j. 



9 . Greyish ferruginous, obscure, thickly and finely punctured 

 with black. Eyes black ; ocelli red. Thorax rather darker than 

 the rest of the upper surface, with eleven paler, elevated, impunc- 

 tate spots, placed, seven close to the anterior margin, forming an 

 irregular transverse band, and four larger ones across the disc 

 about the middle. Scutellum with a large spot, similar to those 

 of the thorax, in the centre of its base, and two smaller ones on 

 each side of this ; apex black. Membrane of the elytra brownish, 

 semitransparent. Margins of the abdomen banded with black 

 and orange, the base and apex of each segment being black. 

 Body beneath of the same colour as the upper surface, but rather 

 paler, shining, impunctate, and indistinctly mottled with paler 

 spots. Thighs testaceous, with a brown ring near the apex; 

 tibiae and tarsi brown. Antennae testaceous at the base, with the 

 three apical joints blackish brown. 



The specimen of the male in the collection is in a very bad 

 condition ; it is of a dark greyish green colour spotted with pale 

 I green in the same manner as above described. 



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



b. S. Africa. 



20. PENTATOMA dissimilis. 



Cimex prasinus, DeGeer, Ins. iii. 266. 9 ? (1773) ; Wolff, Ic. dm. 



52. t. 6. fig. 49 (1801); Fall. Mon. Cim.47. 11 (1807) # Hem. 



Suec. 28. 10 (1826). 

 Cimex dissimilis, Fab. E. S. iv. 109. 112 (1794) $S. E. 167. 59 



(1803) ; Panz. 33. 13 ; Wolff, Ic. Cim. 53. t. 6. fig. 50? (1801) ; 



Burm. Handb. ii. 370. 17 (1835). 



Pentatoma juniperina, LeP. fy Serv. Enc. Meth. x. 57. 19 (1825). 

 Pentatoma prasinum, Hahn, Wanz. ii. 60. pi. 49. fig. 149 



(1834). 

 Pentatoma prasinum et dissimile, H. Sch. Nom. Ent. i. 56 & 92 



& 93 (1835). 

 Carpocoris prasina et dissimilis, Kolen. Mel. Ent. iv. 43. 173 & 



49. 174 (1846). 



