214' LYGiEINA. 



broadly and depressed on to the base of the clavus. Scutellum large, 

 triangular, convex ; basal angles depressed. Elytra at the base rather 

 narrower than the base of the pronotum, then widened and rounded ; 

 Clavus broad ; Gorium ; disk posteriorly convex ; posterior margin 

 nearly straight, incrassated ; 3£emhrane with a deep furrow along 

 the base, and 4 strong nerves ; 1st short, curved, ending on the 

 anterior margin ; 2nd nearly straight ; 3rd arising near the inner 

 basal angle, strongly curved towards the inner margin and then from 

 it ; 4th arising on the inner margin, short and curved ; the last 3 end 

 on the posterior margin. Sternum ; Mesostermim with a slight 

 central keel ; xyphus short ; Metasternum small, depressed in the 

 centre. Ziecjs strong ; thigJis ; 1st pair very thick, fusiform ; beneath 

 with a wide, shallow channel, on the edges of which, at and before 

 the middle, are several short, scarcely perceptible elevations ; 2nd 

 and 3rd pairs not thickened in the centre, contracted a little at the 

 apex ; tihice a little widened at the apex ; tarsi ; 1st joint on the 1st 

 and 2nd pairs as long as the 2nd and 3rd together ; on the 3rd pair 

 much longer. 



Abdomen above flat, beneath convex ; Connexivum wide, vertical 

 or recurved over the abdomen. 



Species 1.- — Sti'gnocoris rusticus. 



Lyg^us rusticus, Fall. Mou. Cim. 70, 17 (1807) ; Hem. Suec. 64, 25 

 (1829) ; Zett. F. Ins. Lap. i, 470, 3 (1852) ; Ins. 

 Lap. 2G2, 4 (1840). 

 Pachymekus kusticus, ScMll. Beitr. i, 81, 26, t. 7, fig. 5 (1829) ; Hahn, 

 Wauz. i, 223, t. 36, fig. 116 (1831) ; Kolen. 

 Mel Ent. ii, 83, 53 (1845). 

 Aphanus — H. Schf. Norn. Ent. i, 46 (1835). 



Beosus — Sahib. Geoc. Een. 67, 3 (1848). 



Pachymeeus (Pachymeiius) rusticus, Flor, Rliyu. Liv. i, 241, 6 



(1861). 

 Stygnus rusticus, Fieb. Europ. Hem. 186, 1 (1861). 

 Ophthalmicus rusticus, Stal, Vet. Akad. Forh. 214, 2 (1862). 



Black above and beneath ( except the abdomen ) ; coarsely and 

 deeply punctured ; clothed with fine, yellow, somewhat appressed 

 hairs. 



Head. — Antennae ; 1st joint piceous, rarely black ; 2nd and ord 



