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with the lateral angles obtuse ; signed with a sanguine cross, the arms of 



which extend from angle to angle ; lateral margin, as well as that of the 

 hemelytra and abdomen, white ; scutellum longer than the thorax, obtuse 

 with a subtriangular sanguine spot on each side near the apex; penulti- 

 mate ventral segment of the abdomen margined with white ; membrane 

 white. 



[276.] 384. Pentatoma variegata Kirhy. — Length of body 3 

 lines, A single specimen taken in the road from New York to Cumber- 

 land-house. 



Upper surface of the body punctured. Head, excluding the prominent 

 eyes, subtrapezoidal, black, with the margin below the eyes, white ; pro- 

 muscis extending to the base of the hind legs, pallid, black at the tip ; 

 antennaj black ; prothorax transverse with lateral angles obtuse ; pallid 

 with a tint of flesh-colour, especially at the angles, with a broad anterior 

 and narrow posterior black band, both abbreviated on each side, and the 

 latter almost divided into two ; scutellum an isosceles triangle, obtuse at 

 the apex, black with the lateral margin pallid ; hemelytra black with a 

 pallid lateral margin, membrane embrowned ; underside of the trunk black 

 spotted with pallid and sanguine, punctured ; tibi» and apex of the thighs 

 black ; base of the thighs sanguine ; abdomen below punctured at the 

 sides, sanguine, with a large black discoidal spot, rather nearer the anus ; 

 nearly divided into two ; on the sides and at the base naked, but a quad- 

 rangular space of the inner side of each division is covered with decum- 

 bent subcinereous pile. 



N. B. The antepectus is entirely pallid, but the socket, if it may be 

 so called, of the legs is redder at the margin than the rest. 



385. Pentatoma trilineata Kirhy. — Plate vi., fig. 6. — Length of 

 body 3 lines. One specimen taken with the preceding. 



[277.] B-ody underneath and the head black, a little bronzed ; thickly 

 punctured with rather deeply impressed punctures ; antennae reddish at 

 the base, with the two last elongated and incrassated joints black ; pro- 

 thorax black anteriorly, posteriorly lurid with the lateral margin and an 

 intermediate longitudinal impunctured line, which extends nearly through 

 the scutellum, white ; the scutellum has also a white linear spot and dot 

 on each side at t'.ie base ; the punctures of the thorax, scutellum, and 

 hemelytra are black ; the membrane of the latter is white ; the legs and 

 §ides of the breast arq lurid spotted or punctured with black ; the elevated 



