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somewhat mussel-shaped process, standing out sideways, having to- 

 wards its outer end a strong depression or slit, — the orifice of the 

 odoriferous organ. Legs strong; thighs thick beyond the middle, 

 smaller at the base and end; tarsi ; 1st and 3rd joints long; in 

 length subequal, the 3rd stoutest. 



Ahdovien above flat, beneath convex ; Connexivum deep, greatly 

 reflexed. Underside, in the ? the centre of the 2nd segment is 

 swollen, and posteriorly gives out a keel which extends across the 

 3rd. Genital segments after the same type as Cgmus, except that 

 the 3rd is convex, and rounded at the end. 



Species 1. — Ischnorhynchus Reseda. 



Lyg.eus Reseda, Panz. F. G. 40, 20. 



— DiDYMtis, Zelt. Act. Holm. 71 (1819) ; Fall. Hem. Suec. 50, 4 



(1829). 

 Heterogasteu ResedjE, ScMll. Beitr. 80, t. 8, fig. 5 (1829); Burnt. 

 Handb. ii, 292, 1 (1835); H.Schf. Norn. Eut. 

 i, 46 (IS35). 

 Cymus Eesed.e, Kolen. Mel. Eat. ii, 92, 64 (1845) ; Sahib. Geoc. Ten. 

 71, 1 (1848). 



— (Lyctus) EESED.E, Flor, Rhyn. Liv. i, 296, 4 (1860). 

 IsciiNOKHYNCHUS DiDYMUS, Fieb. Europ. Hem. 199, 1 (1861). 



— Reseda, Stal, Vet. Akad. Forhand. 213, 1 (1862). 



Sead reddish, base narrowly black ; often with 2 black, pointed 

 dashes enclosing the red ocelli. Antennce ; 1st joint black; 2nd 

 ochreous-brown, base and apex black ; 3rd ochreous-brown, base 

 black ; 4th black, apex piceous. Eyes pitchy black. JRostrum 

 piceous, base ochreous beneath, 



Tliorax. — Fronotum strongly punctured, ochreous-red, the front 

 oft^n piceous ; the anterior depressed portion posteriorly with a 

 transverse, smooth, sometimes sinuate black line interrupted in the 

 middle ; centre of the disk with a pale, longitudinal line ; posterior 

 margin sometimes black. Scutellum lightly punctured, reddish, base 

 pale and more strongly black-punctured. Elytra ; Clavus ochreous, 

 with 2 rows of strong punctures, anterior margin reddish, apex piceous; 

 Corium ochreous, very finely punctured ; anterior margin with a 

 fine brown line along the edge ; inner margin red ; posterior margin 

 reddish, externally with a fine brown line more or less distinct ; a 



