158 BERYTINA. 



incrassated, much deflected, divergent before the eyes aud well 

 defined, but depressed behind them. AntenncB yellow, 1st joint 

 black on the sides of the base, club rather gradual, thick, black ; 

 2nd brown towards the apex ; 3rd black at the apex ; 4th black, 

 shining, with fine projecting black hairs. Eyes brown. Ocelli 

 ochreous. Bostrum piceous. 



Thorax. — Sides strongly punctured : Pronotuni ; keels strong, 

 whitish, sometimes with black streaks, side keels continued round 

 the rounded, flat hinder angles ; posterior margin nearly straight ; 

 disk horizontal, depressed transversely in the middle, on the 

 anterior -^ lightly, on the posterior = strongly, closely punctured. 

 Scutelhim pale. Elytra ; Glavus and Corium shining, the nerves 

 lustrous ; Corium, anterior margin slightly rounded, posterior margin 

 with a fine brown line ; Memhrane dull, diaphanous, finely crenate ; 

 anterior margin and the 2nd nerve brown ; between the 2ud and 

 3rd nerves a strong, gradually widening black dash from the 

 middle to the apex, and a similar but longer and narrower one 

 between the 3rd and 4th nerves on the basal ^ ; apex black ; tliese 

 dashes are often obsolete in the ? . Legs yellow ; tliiylts gradually 

 clavate, the club entirely or only at the sides blackish-brown ; tarsi ; 

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



Abdomen beneath, in the ^ brown, punctured, the middle with a 

 lighter, the sides with a darker line ; in the $ altogether paler. 

 Genital segments ; in the (J, the processes broad, the points obtuse, 

 distant, not converging, the space between the processes quad- 

 rangular ; in the ? the 2ud segment elongate, slightly constricted in 

 the middle. 



Length 2-^— 2|- lines. 



Not rare in moss, and at the roots of grass in dry places, in 

 spring, autamn, and winter ; Deal, Charlton, Sanderstead, N. Devon 

 (^Staiiito)i) , Isle of Man (Stotcell). 



Species 7. — Berytus commutatus. 



Beeytus commutatus, Fiel). ia litt. 



Ochreous. Frontal process seen from above, with a fine thin point, 

 sideways, almost semi-oval. Antenncc ; 1st joint, club short, 

 abrupt, black ; 3rd black at the apex ; 4th black. Eronotum 

 nearly flat, depressed in the middle ; side keels somewhat flat- 



