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piceous ; the juuctiou of all the joints of the aniennce and taru 

 yellowish. 



Head finely punctured. Aniennce with long projecting hairs. Eyes 

 and Ocelli black. Rostrum piceous. 



Thorax. — Pronotum short, campanulate, widened posteriorly ; 

 anterior portion f^omewhat finely, not closely, punctured ; posterior 

 portion with large, long, deep punctures. Scutellum; base in the 

 middle flattened and finely punctured, the rest with large, deep, 

 distant punctures. Elytra ; Glavus with 3 rows of deep punctures ; 

 apes rufo-piceous ; nerve and claval suture pale piceous ; Corium ; 

 anterior margin piceous, disk with large punctures at the base and 

 along the claval suture ; on the centre and posteriorly fine punctures ; 

 nerves at the base pale brown-yellow ; Memhrane fuscous, the 

 middle of the base black ; interior basal angle fulvous ; exterior basal 

 angle with a white spot, one on the 2ud nerve beyond the base, and 

 a larger one on the 3rd nerve (which, however, is often entirely white, 

 with a large whitish spot at or near its extremity) ; 4th nerve white 

 from the base for nearly 4- its length. Sternum with large, round, 

 distant punctux'es. Legs; thighs with fine, appressed, yellowish 

 hairs ; fulcra and apex yellowish ; tibice with longish, subprominent, 

 yellowish hairs ; 2nd and 3rd pairs with fine, distant black spines on 

 the inner side ; tarsi black, with strong rufous hairs beneath. 



Abdomen beneath delicately punctured ; the hairs lie perceptibly 

 parallel to each other. 



Length, 2^—3 lines. 



Common under moss and among debris at Weybridge, in August 

 and Sejjtember ; Addingtou Hills, August ; Stoneham, Hants, May. 



Species 4. RllYPAROCHROMUS PR^TEXTATUS. 



Pachy]meeus PKyETEXTATUS, H. Schf. Nom. Eut. i, 45 (18.35); "VYanz. iv, 



12, t. 113, fig. 357 (1839). 

 Rhvparochromus maculipennis, Curt. B. E. xiii, pi. 612 (1836). 

 Pachymerus femoralis, Bohcm. Vet. Akad. Haudl. 249 (1849). 

 Megalonotus PRiETEXTATTjs, Fieb. Europ. Hem. 181, 3 (1861) ; S/al. 



Vet. Akad. Forh. 217, 3 (1862). 



Black, shining, narrow, sides subparallel. Anterior -i- of the 1st 

 and 2nd joints of the antenna yellow. Fronotum long, sub- 



