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antennse black ; feet pale : pronotum obtusely spinose, somewhat ferru- 

 ginous {Fahr.). WolfE makes the basal joint of the antennae greyish ; 

 head, pronotum, scutellum, hemelytra and feet greyish, impressly punc- 

 tured ; pronotum with four longitudinal lines formed by black points, 

 lateral angles black ; margin of abdomen variegated black and greyish ; 

 beneath greyish-virescent : tarsi rufescent ; first tibiae with a small tooth. 

 He notes several varieties : —one with head, lateral spines of pronotum 

 and hemelytra purpurascent, pronotum with longitudinal black bands, 

 scutellum virescent, marginal spots on abdomen black with a white 

 pupil ; abdomen and pectus greenish ; tibiae rosy, tarsi black at apex. 

 Long 10| ; broad, 6j mill. 



Reported from Kugiar, N. W. Siberia, Astrakhan, N. Africa, 

 Europe. 



Genus Dolycoris, Muls. and Rey. 



CarpocoriSy subg. Dolycoris, Muls. and Rey, Pnn. Pent. p. 238 (1866) ; Dolycoris, 

 Stal, Ofvers. K. Y.-A. Forh. xxix (3), p. 38 (1872) ; En. Hem. v, p. 57, 76 (1876). 



Body pilose : connexivum in a great part prominulous beyond the 

 hemelytra : lateral margins of the head not, or but slightly, sinuated : 

 antennae stoutish : anterior lateral margins of pronotum very distinctly 

 and narrowly reflexed : frena extended beyond the middle of the 

 scutellum. 



170. Dolycoris baccarum, Linnaeus. 



Cimex baccarum, Linn., Faun. Suec. ii, 928, (1761) ; Syst. Nat. i, p. 721 (1767) : 

 Scopoli, Ent. Cam. p. 123 (1763) : Fallen, Hem. Suec. p. 29 (1826). 



Pentatoma baccarum, pt., Dallas, List Hem. i, p. 235 (1851) : Walker, Cat. Het. 

 ii, p. 283 (1867) : Sahib., Mon. Geoc. Fenn. p. 26 (1848) : Saunders, Trans. Ent. Soc. 

 p. 125 (1875). 



Pentatoma pallida, Dallas, 1. c, p. 234 (1851), N. India : Stal, Ofvers., K. Y.-A., 

 Forh. p. 497 (1862) ; Walker, 1. c. p. 299 (1867). 



Mormidea nigricornis, Fieb. (nee. Fabr.) Eur. Hem. p. 335 (1861). 



Carpocoris baccarum, Muls. and Rey, Pnn. France Pent., p. 238 (1866) ; Stal, 

 En. Hem. v, p. 76 (1876). 



Dolycoris baccarum. Distant, pt., Res. 2nd Yarkand Miss. p. 5 (1879) : J. Sahib., 

 K. Sv. Y.-A., Handl. xvi (4) p. 15 (1879) ; Renter, Ent. Tijds. p. 129 (1880) ; Duda, 

 Wien Ent. Zeit. iv, p. 68 (1885). 



Renter, in 1877 (Ent. Mon. Mag. xiv, p. 11), united Oimex fuscispi- 

 nusy Boheman (K. V.-A., Handl., p. 241, 1849), with G. baccarum^ Linn., 

 but, in 1880 (Ent. Tijds., p. 129), he describes them separately. 

 Linnaeus' description of Oimex baccarum, in Faun. Suec, is very curt : — 

 * ovate, greyish ; margin of abdomen spotted black,' but, in the Syst. 

 Nat., Linnaeus quotes Scopoli's description as synonymous. This runs : — 



