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LYGiEINA. 



Pachymerus (Pachymekus) oculatus, Flor, Rhyn. Liv. i, 257, IH 



(1860). 

 IscHNOcoRis PALLiDiPENNis, Fieb. Europ. Hem. 180, 2 (1861). 

 Pterotmetus hemiptekus, Stal, Vet. Akad. Porii. 215, 2 (1862). 



Black, slightly shining ; apical portion of the 1st and 2nd joints of the 

 antennce yellow ; posterior 4th of the ][)ronotum., and the clavus 

 and coniim, dull oohreous ; le<js fulvous ; fore tliighs black. 



Head slightly convex, delicately punctured ; a few erect black 

 hairs on the orbit of the eyes and the sides of the central lobe. An- 

 tennce black, with close, short, subappressed, yellowish hairs ; 1st 

 joint on the base and apical 3rd, 2nd on the apical i, reddish- 

 yellow. Ei/es large, almost touching the pronotum, black. Ocelli 

 black, nostrum reaching the 2nd pair of coxse, piceous. 



Thorax. — Pronotum ; anterior portion slightly convex, finely punc- 

 tured ; posterior portion flatter, pale ochreous ; at the sides the 

 punctures black, round, distant, larger than in front ; posterior 

 margins black, often with 2 short, whitish streaks in the middle ; the 

 junction of the anterior and posterior portions of the disk not sharply 

 defined. Scutellum black, delicately punctured ; apex ochreous. 

 Elytra; Clavus a-wd Corium pale ochreous; CZffi7?fs with 2 rows and 

 Corium with 4 rows of black punctures, which latter in the 2 outer 

 rows are larger and confluent ; anterior margin pale, with a black 

 line on the edge ; apex with a black spot ; posterior margin black ; 

 Membrane (rudimentary) pale, with a fuscous shade. Sternum witli 

 fine scattered punctures ; outer margin and a spot at the base of 

 each coxa pale yellow. Legs ; fulcra fulvous ; tliiglis; 1st pair black, 

 fulvous at the base and apex ; 2nd and 3rd pairs fulvous, fuscous or 

 black towards the apex ; 2nd pair sometimes entirely fulvous ; tibice 

 fulvous, 2nd and 3rd joints sometimes piceous. 



Abdomen finely punctured ; the underside with short, yellowish 

 pubescence. 



Length, 1^ line. 



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

 Wood, Surrey ; Addington Hills ; Dartford Heath ; Tunbridge 

 Wells. 



