218 LYG^INA. 



1st and 2ud pairs as long as the other 2, on the 3rd pair much 

 longer. 



Abdomen above flat, beneath convex ; Connexivum moderate, 

 vertical. 



Species 1. — Acompus rufipes. 



Lyg^us rtjfipes, IFoIff, Ic. Cini. 121, fig. 145 (ISOO). 

 Ophthalmicus LoNicEUiE, Schill. Beitr. 63, 3, t. 2, fig. 3 (1829). 

 Pachymerus (Aphanus) pallipes, H. Schf. Panz. F. G. 121, 2. 



— DUMUS, Ramb. P. And. 152, 11 (1838). 

 Beosus clavatus, SaJM. Geoc. Pen. 67, 4 (1818). 

 Pachymerus bisignatus, BoJiem. Yet. Akad. Handl. 104 (1859). 



— (Pachymerus) clavatus, I'lor, Bhyn. Liv. i, 244, 8 (1860). 

 Acompus rufipes, Fieh. Europ. Hem. 186 (1861). 



Ophthalmicus rufipes, Slul, Vet. Akad. Forh. 214 (1862). 



Black, shining, coarsely and deeply piinctured, except on the abdo- 

 men ; finely haired, except on the jironotum and elytra ; cor mm 

 ochreous, hindwardly piceous ; Ie(js and 2nd and 3rd joints of 

 the antenncE orange. 



Head above and beneath with the hairs longish and waved. An- 

 tenncB with short whitish hairs ; 1st joint black, apex orange ; 2nd 

 and 3rd orange, 4th piceous or black. Eyes and Ocelli black. 

 nostrum piceous. 



Thorax. — Pronotwn ; hinder angles smooth. Elytra ; Claims and 

 Corium ochreous, mixed with brown shades, and with rows of black- 

 brown punctures ; Coriitm posteriorly with a broad, indented band, 

 in which are usually 2 or 3 ochreous spots ; posterior margin 

 punctured ; Membrane delicately crenate, fuscous ; base with a 

 large brown spot in the middle conjoined to the Cormm ; basal 

 angles broadly, inner margin and nerves, white. Sternum; Pro- 

 stermom entirely, Meso- and Metasternum at the sides, clothed with 

 longish, fine, appressed, white hairs. Legs orange; thiylis ; some- 

 times either the 1st pair only, or all three, black, except at the apex ; 

 tarsi ; last joint piceous. 



Abdomen above finely shagreened; beneath finely punctured, 

 clothed with fine, short, appressed yellow hairs, longer on the Gth 

 and genital segments. 



Length, 2 — 2\ lines. 



