130 CORETNA. 



Theuafha Hyosciaaii, Am. et Serv. Hem. 245, 2 (1843). 



Couizus (TnEUAPnA) Hyoscyami, Flor, Rhyn. Liv. i, 196, 5 (1S60). 



TuERAPiiA Hyoscyami, Fieb. Europ. Hem. 232 (1801). 



Scarlet, with black spots above aud beneath, slightly sliiuing. 



Head scarlet, bordered narrowly all round with black, but broader 

 behind the eyes and about the ocelli. AntenncB black. Eyes pitchy- 

 black. Ocelli red. Underside red, the centre of the head and the 

 sides of the rostral channel black. Itostrum black. 



Thorax. — Pronotum scarlet, the anterior margin and depression, 

 and a large bilobed patch at the base, black. Scutellum ; the base 

 broadly black, the rest scarlet. Elytra ; Claims black ; Corium 

 scarlet, two small spots near the Clavus, and a large, rounded, poste- 

 rior one, touching the anterior margin only, black ; Ilemhrane light 

 smoky-brown, the basal angles black. Winys light smoky-brown. 

 Sternum scarlet, the centre and two round spots on each side black, 

 the base of the lateral metasternal process also black. Leys ; thiyhs 

 black, the upper edge (except, sometimes, on the 1st pair) with a 

 narrow ochreous line ; tihiw black, beneath with a narrow ochreous 

 line ; tarsi black. 



Abdomen above scarlet, the 1st and 6th segments entirely, and a 

 large, transverse, quadrangular patch on the anterior portion of the 

 2nd segment, black ; ConnexiDum scarlet. Underside scarlet, with a 

 lateral row of round spots and a central row of larger oval sj)ots, 

 black, the spot on the last segment being the largest, aud confluent 

 with the side spots on the same segment ; Genital seyments in the $ , 

 with the visible portion black. 



Length 4i — 5 lines. 



" Oharmouth, Teignmouth, Dawlish Warren and Eavenglass, 

 May 20th to July 1st, on thistles and restharrow; Veutnor, 1st 

 August, on Ononis; Sandhills, Braunton Burrows, beginning of 

 September " {Curtis, 1. c.) ; Tenby, Portland, &c., August and 

 September {Dale). 



Genus 2. — Corizus, Fall. 



Head. — Croivn deflected, broad, subquadrate, incrassated round, 

 and especially behind, the eyes, postcrioidy constricted ; in front 

 produced at the sides into a short, blunt, deflected process, within 

 which the tubercle of the anteuntB is concealed ; Face vertical, 



