204 LYGiEINA. 



mineut hairs. Antennce black, the extreme base of all the joints 

 yellowish ; 1st joint red at the apex ; 2nd, except the apex, red, the 

 base sometimes black ; 3rd sometimes red ou the lower half; all the 

 joints with long, projecting, black hairs, except on the red part of the 

 2nd, where they are red. Eyes and Ocelli black. Bostrum piceous. 



Thorax. — Pronotum long, subquadrangular, slightly contracted 

 beyond the middle ; with long, distant punctnres, except on the first 

 3rd of the disk, where they are fine. Scutellum with large, deep 

 punctures, which, on the sides, are somewhat in rows, finer on the 

 middle. Elytra ; Clavus jmle brown, with 3 rows of deep black 

 punctures ; Corium pale brown, with black punctures in rows, deep 

 at the base, gradually finer posteriorly ; next the posterior margin 

 a broad, inwardly indented black band, in which are 2 distinct 

 ochreous spots ; often the band stretches up alongside the clavus, 

 and forms a stellate blotch ; posterior mai'gin black, exce])t at the 

 apex, which is ochreous ; Memhrane (generally abbreviated) fuscous, 

 with a whitish spot at the outer and inner basal angles ; nerves ob- 

 scurely whitish. Sternum punctured, and with fine whitish pubes- 

 cence ; the punctures on the Prostermim large and deep, on the 

 Meso- and Metasternum finer and crenate. Leys with long projecting 

 hairs ; thiyhs black, base and apex red ; tibice red, apex generally 

 piceous (sometimes the 2nd and 3rd pairs entirely piceous), with 

 strong, distant, black spines ; the 1st pair spined on the underside 

 only ; tarsi red, last joint piceous, or entirely piceous. 



Abdomen, beneath with longish, appressed, yellow pubescence. 



Length, If— 2i lines. 



Varies greatly in size and in the marking of the coriutn. 



A common species under leaves tnd at the roots of grass, in dry 

 and sandy places, throughout the year. 



Sjjecies 3. — Rhyparochromus dilatatus. 



Pachymekus dilatatus, H. ScJif. Wanz. vi, 33, t. 192, fi,?. 591 (1842). 



— OBSCUKUS, Muls. An. Soc. Lin. 97 (1852). 



Megalonotus dilatatus, Fieb. Europ. Hem. 182, 6 (1861). 



Black, slightly shining, broad, thickly clothed, above and beneath, 

 with Ijongish, appressed, yellow hairs. Pronottiin short, campa- 

 nulate. Anterior margin of the corium and the claval suture 



