RHYPAROCHROMID.E. 203 



punctured ; posterior portion with strong, distant punctures ; side 

 margins and the callus piceous. Scutellnm depressed in the centre ; 

 punctures distant, fine at the base, strong at the sides. Elytra; 

 Claviis piceous, with 4 rows of moderate punctures, the two middle 

 rows confluent ; Corium piceous, outwardly paler, with moderate 

 punctures, finer on the posterior portion ; nerves strong and raised 

 at the base, the 1st and the anterior margin pale piceous ; Membrane 

 fuscous, with lighter shades, and a pale or yellowish spot at the 

 outer and inner basal angles ; nerves interruptedly pale. Sternum 

 with distant punctures ; posterior margin of the Metasternum rufous. 

 Legs yellow-brown; lower portion of the thighs, inner side of the 

 tibice, and last joint of the tarsi, piceous ; the tilice with fine, long 

 hairs. 



Abdomen beneath smooth, apex rufous. 



Length, 2| lines. 



Eare. Two specimens taken by Mr. E. C. Eye, of which the 

 locality is not recorded. 



Species 2. — Rhyparochromus chiragra. 



LvGiEUS CHinAGKA, Fab. E. S. iv, 168, 113 (1794) ; S. R. 223, lU 

 (1S03) ; Fall. Hem. Suec. 58, 16 (1829) ; Zelt. 

 Ins. Lap. 263, 10 (1840), 

 Pachymekus cuiragka, Sc/iill. Beitr. i, 75, 16, t. 6, fig. 9 (1829) ; Raku, 

 Wanz. i, 56, t. 9, fig. 34 (1S31); Burm. 

 Handb. ii, 294, 2 (1835); H. Schf. Norn. Ent. 

 i, 45 (1835); Panz. F. G. 122, 8; Eolen. 

 Mel. Eat. ii, 82, 15 (1845). 

 — TIBIALIS, Hahi, Wauz. i, 23, t. 4, fig. 14 (1831). 



Rhypakochromus chiragka, Sahib. Geoc. Fen. 63, 15 (1848). 

 Pachymekus (Pachymehus) chiragea, Flor, Rhyn. Liv. i, 254, 14 



(1860). 

 Megalonotus chiragra, Fieb. Eiu-op. Hem. 182, 7 (1861) ; Slal, Vet. 

 Akad. Forh. 216, 1 (1862). 



Black, dull, or slightly shining, clothed with long, appressed, yellow 

 hairs ; the sides with long projecting hairs. Pronotum long, 

 subquadrangular. Corium light brown, with a broad black band 

 on the posterior margin, in which are 2 distinct ochreous spots. 

 Thighs black ; tibice red-brown. 



Head finely punctured ; sides of the central lobe with strong, pro- 



