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CoiiEUS HiRTicoRNis et I'lLicoKNis, Buriii. llandb. ii, 309, 1 & 2 (1835) ; 



Flor, Rhyn. Liv. i, 176, 177, 1 

 & 2 (1860); /'/ei. Europ. Hem. 

 221, 4 & 5 (1861). 

 — AFFiNis, H. Schf. Wanz. iv, 97, t. 141, fig. 441 (1839). 

 ? Mekocokis serkatus, Costa, Atti, 371 (1847). 

 Dasycoris denticulatus, Ball. Cat. Hem. 519, 1 (1852) ; Sleln. Berl. 

 Eut. Zeits. iv, 248, 3 (ISGO). 

 ? CoREUs WoLrni, Gorski, Anal. 148, 96 (1852). 



Above dull, dark cinuamon or cbocolate-brovpu, very rugose, aud beset 

 with short stiff hairs ; beneath ochreous. 



Head. — Antenncd ; the 1st 3 joints red-brown; the 4th black, 

 with the tip red. ^yes and Ocelli dark brown. Bostrum dark brown ; 

 the produced sides of the rostral channel ochreous. 



Thorax. — Fronotum ; lateral margins narrowly whitish, the spines 

 also whitish, the spine at the hinder angle longer ; the spines on 

 the posterior margin brown, the one on each side of the scutellum 

 the longest and whitish. Scutellum; the spines on the sides con- 

 colorous or whitish. Elytra ; Gorium with black, rugose, granular 

 points, in longitudinal rows ; Ifemh-ane slightly shining, ochreous, 

 the nerves brown, with pale intervals. Sternum ; on each side of 

 the rostral channel, on the mesostermun, a large black spot. Legs ; 

 thiglis rugose, chocolate-brown, mottled, especially beneath, with 

 ochreous ; the 2nd pair beneath with 1 short spine ; the 3rd pair 

 darkest, on the underside with several out-curving spines, of which 

 two are much longer than the rest. The 1st long spine is near the 

 tibia, but before it are 4 small ones, the 1st being the shortest, and 

 the 4th only half the length of the long spine ; the 2ud long spine 

 is not so long as the 1st, and is at some distance from it ; sometimes 

 there is a very small tooth between them. Further back, at the 

 Bame distance as between the two long spines, a 3rd and 4th shorter 

 spine are sometimes placed, but one or other is more frequently 

 absent : the two long spines have the base broadly, and the apex 

 narrowly, black, the intermediate portion whitish. Tihice ochreous or 

 reddish, with fine, short, black hairs ; tarsi ochreous or piceous. 



Abdomen above orange-red, the 1st and 2nd segments entirely, 

 and the 3rd at the sides, black. Connexivum ochreous or reddish- 

 brown. Underside ochreous, with a central and two lateral brown 

 lines. 



Length, 4^ lines. 



