HEMIPTERA. 2-49 



Cimex albipes, Fab. E. S. Supp. 535 (1798) $ S. R. 177. 114 



(1803). 

 Cydnus lugens, Fab. S. R. 187. 12 (1803); Wolff, Ic. dm. 186. 



t. 18. fig. 180 (1811). 

 Pentatoma punctipes, Pal. B. Ins. 113. Hem. pi. 8. fig. 6; Say., 



Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phil. iv. 313. 4 (1824). 

 Pentatoma lugens, H. Sch. Wanz. vii. 96 (1844). 



a. N. America. Presented by the Entomological Club. 



b. Trenton Falls, New York. Presented by E. Doubleday, 



Esq. 



c. St. John's Bluff, E. Florida. Presented by E. Double- 



day, Esq. 



d. N. America. 



40. PENTATOMA virgata, n. s. 



P. ovata, tiava, rufo-variegata, punctata ; thorace lineis 6, scu- 

 tello 2, elytrisque plaga longitudinali viridibus; abdomine 

 subtus linea utrinque longitudinali nigra ; pedibus viridibus, 

 tar sis fuscis ; antennis viridibus, apice nigris. ? . 

 Long. lin. 4. 



Ovate, somewhat elongate. Head orange-red, narrowly mar- 

 gined laterally, very faintly punctured on the vertex ; lateral 

 lobes faintly wrinkled. Eyes black. Thorax pale yellow, finely 

 punctured with brown, with the anterior portion of the disc 

 bright orange-red, impunctate ; four blackish spots close to the 

 anterior margin, and six green longitudinal lines on the posterior 

 portion. Scutellum pale yellow, finely punctured with brown, 

 , with the base orange-red, and two green longitudinal lines con- 

 1 tinuous with the central lines of the thorax and running to the 

 apex of the scutellum. Coriaceous portion of the elytra with 

 the outer margin broadly, and the apical margin narrowly, bright 

 orange-red, thickly and finely punctured, the inner portion of 

 i the disc pale yellow, with a broad longitudinal stripe down the 

 I middle formed of blackish green punctures, and interrupted to- 

 wards the apex by an oblique, pale yellow, elevated line. Mem- 

 brane brownish, semitransparent, with a blackish brown spot in 

 the inner basal angle. Margins of the abdomen yellow, thickly 

 and finely punctured. Abdomen beneath pale yellow, with a 

 longitudinal black line on each side within the margins, and 

 within this a broad band of orange-red ; the lateral margins are 

 pale yellow and like the centre of the disc impunctate ; the sides 

 of the disc are finely and rather thickly punctured. Breast 

 orange. Legs pale green, with the tarsi dark brown. Rostrum 

 with the basal joint orange, the second testaceous, the third 

 brown, the fourth black. Antennae with the two basal joints 



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