RHYPAROCHROMIDiE. 209 



Black, shining; posterior portion of the pronotum, the clavus, and 

 coi'inm, dull ochreous ; le^s black. 



Head convex, finely punctured, with a few long, erect, black hairs 

 on the orbit of the eyes and the sides of the central lobe. Antennce 

 black, with fine, short, subappressed hairs ; base of each joint 

 narrowly red ; sometimes the middle of the 2nd broadly rufous. 

 Eyes small, a little removed from the pronotum. 'Rostrum piceous. 



Thorax. — Pronotum finely, distantly punctured, finest on the disk, 

 which is also finely crenate in front ; anterior portion very convex, 

 and its junction with the posterior 4th sharply defined ; last 4th 

 (except at the sides) more or less clearly ochreous, with black 

 round punctures. Scutelliim finely punctured ; apex ochreous. 

 Elytra ; Clavus and Corium flat, pale dull ochreous ; Corium more 

 or less clouded posteriorly, and ordinarily with 2 undefined, brown or 

 piceous spots, one on the first 3rd near the claval suture, the other 

 posterior on the anterior margin ; anterior margin narrowly reflexed, 

 mostly clear, with a brown line on the edge ; both Clavus and Corium 

 with distinct rows of round black punctures, larger than on the pro- 

 notum ; Membrane appears only as a whitish border to the corium. 

 Sternmii finely punctured, more strongly on the anterior portion of 

 the Prosternum ; Metasternum finely crenate, posterior margin ru- 

 fous. Legs with fine yellowish hairs ; cox(e, fulcra, and base and end 

 of the thiglis, rufous ; tihicB black or piceous ; base rufous ; beneath 

 with fine spines in a row ; tarsi black or piceous. 



Abdomen beyond the corium uncovered, finely punctured ; un- 

 derside finely punctured, and clothed with short, straight, yellowish 

 pubescence, and on the posterior margin of the last abdominal seg- 

 ment 2 or 3 projecting black hairs. 



Length, 11- line. 



Local. In moss among heath, from April to October. Coombe 

 "Wood, Surrey ; Addington Hills ; Plumstead Common ; Weybridge ; 

 Tunbridge AVells ; Heron Court, Hants {Curtis). 



Species 2. — Hypnophilus hemipteuus. 



Pachymekus HEMiriERUs, ScMlL Beitr. 77, 20, t. 6, fig. 11 (1829). 



— Staphylinieoemis, Ha/m, Wanz. i, 61, t. 9, fig. 37 (1831). 



— PALLiDiPENNis, H. Schf. Wanz. ix, 210 (1850). 



— ANGUSTULUS, Bohem. Vet. Akad. Forh. 56, 10 (1852). 



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