154 BERYTINA. 



large, round, sliining ; keels white, strong, rising in the same 

 curve as the disk, the middle one deepest, the side ones merg- 

 ing into the slight callosity at the hinder angles ; posterior 

 margin slightly concave. Scutellum white. Elytra slightly shining, 

 anterior margin slightly curved ; Clavus mostly brownish between 

 the nerves ; Corium, nerves strong, lustrous ; in the ^ the space 

 between the inner ones brownish ; posterior margin outwardly 

 with a fine brown hne, apex black ; Ilenibrane broader than the 

 corium, posteriorly obtuse-lanceolate, diaphanous, lustrous, with 3 

 long, black streaks; the 1st between the 2nd and 3rd nerves not 

 quite reaching to the base, broad, widened posteriorly and sublanceo- 

 late ; the 2nd between and as long as the 3rd and 4th nerves, 

 broad, equal throughout ; the 3rd between the 4th and 5 th nerves, 

 narrow, interrupted ; in the ? these streaks are much fointer. 

 8ternu7)i brown, crenate punctate ; Mesosternum piceous, disk quad- 

 rangular, nearly flat, with a deep middle channel, on the outer de- 

 flected sides a deep depression ; Metastermim convex, the middle 

 depressed. Legs yellow ; thighs ; club dusky, the sides with darker 

 granulations ; tarsi ; 1st joint yellow, 2nd and 3rd black. 



Aldomeii beneath yellow-brown, with distinct, sharp, irregular 

 punctures, and a smooth yellowish middle line. Genital segment in 

 the ^ callous, posteriorly abruptly deflected, the lateral processes 

 short, parallel, the space between them quadrangular. 



Length, 2f — 3 lines. 



Dartford Brent, among thyme and moss, August. 



Species 4. — Berytus clavipes. 



Gekkis clavipes, Fab. E. S. iv, 192, 20 (1791); Fall. Mon. Cim. 118, 



2 (1S07). 

 Berytus — FaL S. R. 265, 2 (1803) ; Fall. Hem. Suec. i, 165, 



2 (1829) ; Sc/iill. Beitr. i, 56, 2, t. 7, fig. 3 b (1829) ; 



Ila/u/, Wanz. i, 135, t. 21, fig. 69 (1831) ; H. Sclif. 



Norn. Eut. i, 43 (1835) ; Fieb. Wieu. Eut. Moiiats, 



iii, 205, 5 (1859); Europ. Hem. 211, 5 (1861). 

 — (Neides) clavipes, Flor, Bhyu. Liv. i, 205, 2 (1860). 



Dusky ochreous, shining. Frontal process ; above straight, on the 

 side subtriangular, rounded beneath. AntenncB ; 1st joint, club 

 slight, gradual, dusky only on the sides ; 3rd yellow throughout. 

 Fronotum flat ; sides nearly parallel ; posterior margin straight. 



