RHYPAROCHROMID.E. 215 



pale piceous, apex still paler ; 4th black, base pale pieeous, apex some- 

 times piceous. -Eye* piceous. OcelUhlack. i?c>s;'r?<wi pale piceous. 



Thorax. — Pronotum; sides sligbtly concave in the middle. Eljlra ; 

 Corium on the anterior margin, sometimes the Claviis inwardly, and 

 usually all the nerves, piceous brown ; Memhrane usually rudimen- 

 tary and not covering the abdomen, whitish, the base black (when 

 developed it is, according to Mor, " gray -brown or blackish, its base 

 and the nerves yellowish-w^hite ; or it is on the greater portion clear, 

 witli indistinct gray shades between the nerves"). Legs piceous; 

 tarsi paler, last joint piceous. 



Abdomen above very delicately punctured ; 1st 2 segments 

 reddish; Connexivum on its inner side, on the 1st 3 segments, 

 red. Underside delicately crenate-punctate. 



Length, ^ 2 lines, ? 2^ lines. 



Not rare, but local. Lee, Augiist ; Beckenham, September ; "West 

 Cowes, Isle of Wight, September, plentifid on PuUcaria dgsenterica. 



jSpecics 2. — Stygnocoris sabulosus. 



Lyg^us pedestuis. Fall. Mon. Cim. 71, IS (1S07) ; Hem. Suec. 64, 26 



(1S29); Zelf. lus. Lap. 203, 5 (1840), non Panz. 



Pachymerus sabulosus, Sc/iill. Beitr. 81, 25 (1829) ; Ha/m, Wauz. i, 



221, t. 36, fig. 117 (1831). 

 Aphanus — Nom. Eut. i, 46 (1835). 



Rhypakochiiomus pubescens, Curl. B. E. xiii, 612, 24 (1336). 



— sabulosus, Sct/ild. Geoc. Eeu. 58, 7 (1848). 



Pachyilerus (Pachymekus) sabulosus, Flor, Bliyn. Liv. i, 243, 7 



(1860). 

 Stygnus sabulosus, Fieb. Europ. Hem. 187, 2 (1861). 

 Ophthalmicus sabulosus, Slal, Vet. Akad. Porh. 215, 4 (1862). 



Black (except the iironotum posteriorly and the elytra), shining ; 

 coarsely and deeply punctured, except on the abdomen ; clothed 

 with fine yellow hairs, longer above than beneath. Corium 

 yellow-brown, posteriorly piceous. 



Plead. — The punctures finer than on the pronotum. Antenn(S ; 

 1st 3 joints brownish-yellow ; 4th pitchy-black. PJi/es and Ocelli 

 piceous. Postruin yellow-brown. 



Thorax. — Pronotum ; sides a little rounded ; disk anteriorly black 

 or piceous, posteriorly, including the hinder angles, more or less 



