PHYGADICID-E. 221 



of the Coi'ium. Stermim ; Coxcb aud legs orange-yellow; thighs 

 pitchy -black in the middle; tarsi ; last joint piceous. 



Abdomen beneath shining, black, with fine, close, whitish hairs. 



Length, 2^—3 lines. 



Local. On reeds aud aquatic plants. Merton, Surrey (Power) ; 

 Folkestone (G. Letois) ; in August and September. 



Family 2.— PHYGADICIDJE. 



Genus 1. — Phygadicus, Fieb. 



Elliptic. 



Head with the eyes broader than the front of the pronotum ; 

 Croion convex and deflected, sides widened before and under the 

 eyes into a short obtuse process for the insertion of the antennae ; 

 Face triangular, greatly deflected in a curve continuous with that of 

 the crown ; central lobe short, narrow, obtuse ; side lobes as long as 

 the central lobe, wide at the base, compressed towards the pointed 

 end, the outer margin concave. Antennce rather strong ; 1st joint 

 short, slightly the stoutest, reaching a little beyond the end of the 

 face ; the other 3 of equal thickness ; 2nd and 3rd clavate ; 2nd more 

 than twice as long as the 1st ; 3rd a little shorter than the 2nd ; 

 4th a little shorter than the 3rd, fusiform. Eyes large, semiglo- 

 bose, prominent. Ocelli large, distant. Rostrum reaching to the 

 centre of the mesosternum ; 1st joint not so long as the head ; 2nd 

 longer than the 1st, 3rd shorter; the 1st in a deep channel, of 

 which the sides, in front, are raised and rounded to the end of the 

 central lobe of the face. 



Thorax. — Pronotum long-trapeziform ; anterior margin slightly 

 concave, anterior angles rounded ; sides constricted in the middle ; 

 margins very narrow ; hinder angles rounded ; posterior margin 

 concave ; disk convex, raised into a callus within the hinder angles. 

 Scutellum large, triangular; base convex, centre depressed, apex 

 acute. Elytra posteriorly narrowed and lying within the connexi- 

 vum ; Clavus outwardly depressed ; Corium ; anterior margin a little 

 curved, posterior margin straight ; the nerves on the disk rather 

 strong, 1st and 3rd more or less distinctly forked beyond the middle, 

 forming, when distinct, 2 large cells within the posterior margin ; 

 Membrane depressed along the base ; with 4 nerves, of which the 2 



