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Abdomen pitchy-black ; Connexivum piceous. Uuderside piceous, 

 with fine yellowish pubescence. 

 Length, 2f lines, 

 Not rare, in moss, under leaves, &c., nearly all the year round. 



Species 3. — Drymus pilipes. 



Dry:mus pilipes, Fleb. Europ. Hem. 170, 1 (1S61). 



Elliptic, narrow, slightly shining, black ; elytra pitchy-brown ; an- 

 tenncB pitchy-black ; tarsi witli long hairs. 



Head very finely punctured. Antennce pitchy-black, with fine 

 projecting hairs ; 1st joint, base of all the others, and apex of the 

 4tb, paler. Eyes and Ocelli pitchy-black. Rostrum reddish-brown. 



Thorax. — Pronotum much longer than broad, subquadraugular, the 

 sides being only a little and gradually contracted beyond the middle, 

 and not much widened posteriorly ; anterior angles much rounded ; 

 lateral and posterior margins piceous ; disk, first frds black, with very 

 fine, shallow, distant punctures ; the central depression almost obso- 

 lete ; last 3rd piceous, with strong, deep, angulated punctures ; the 

 callus clear piceous. Sctitellum rather flat, black, and finely punc- 

 tured, the transverse depression sometimes slight. Elytra; Clavus 

 light pitchy-brown, with 4 rows of large contiguous punctures, the 2 

 middle rows indistinct ; claval suture depressed and darker ; Corium 

 light pitchy-brown, finely punctured in rows ; anterior margin 

 slightly rounded, ochreous-bro^\Ti, with a brown line on the edge ; 

 posterior margin dark piceous ; disk with a dark-brown cloud on the 

 1st nerve posteriorly, the inner nerve on its lower \ blackish, with a 

 short pale streak above ; Membrane somewhat abbreviated, fuscous- 

 black, the inner basal angle brownish ; nerves dark, with lighter 

 margins. Sternum black, shining, finely punctured. Leys; tluylis 

 pitchy-black, apex piceous ; tihicB jjiceous, with long, projecting 

 hairs ; tarsi paler. 



Abdomen black ; beneath shining, with fine yellowish pubescence. 



In the c? , according to Fieber, a streak on the clavus and the basal 

 3rd of the coinum are whitish, and the pale nerves of the latter are 

 margined with rows of brown punctures. 



Length, ? 2 lines. 



Tliree sj)ecimens taken by Mr. E. C. Rye, in the spring, in moss, 

 near Croydon, and two at Mickleham by Dr. Power. 



