236 LTGiEINA. 



Sead reddish-ocbreous, sometimes darker iu front, strongly punc- 

 tured. Antennce reddish or brownish-yellow, 2nd joint nearly \ 

 shorter than the 3rd, the extreme end of the 3rd pitchy-black ; 

 4th black, with the base yellowish. Eyes black-brown. Ocelli con- 

 colorous with the head. Rostrum ; 1st two joints yellowish 

 beneath, their upper side and the other joints entirely piceoiis or 

 black. 



Thorax. — Pronotum convex, slightly shining, strongly and thickly 

 punctured ; anterior margin deep brown or black, the disk behind it, 

 and also within the hinder angles, reddish, the remainder ochreous, 

 sometimes with a greenish tinge ; central keel whitish. Scutellum red- 

 dish ochreous, basal angles (and sometimes the entire base) pale, centre 

 whitish. Elytra ; Clavus and Corium shining, punctured finer than 

 the pronotum ; Clavus reddish-ochreous, inner margin pale ; Corium 

 ochreous ; anterior margin reflexed ; posterior margin straight, 

 thick, red-brown, the colour narrower in the centre ; the end of the 

 inner nerve also red-brown; ATemhr a nelustroxis. Sternum -piceous or 

 black, with whitish shades. Leys ochreous or yellow ; thiyhs some- 

 times with a brown shade ; tarsi ochreous ; claivs black. 



Abdomen above, ochreous tinged with vermilion, base black, centre 

 dusky ; Co7inexivum ochreous, base and junction of the segments 

 vermilion. Underside ochreous or with the basal segments piceous, 

 very finely crenate. 



Length, If line. 



Not rare in sandy and dry places, in tufts of grass and other 

 herbage. Deal, in August ; Dartford and Lewisham, in September ; 

 Mickleham, in October ; Tintern (Wollaston). 



Species 2. — Cymus glandicolor. 



Cymtjs glandicolor, jy^'/iw. "Waiiz. i, '79, t. 12, fig. 45 (1S31) ; Fieb. 



Europ. Hem. 203, 1 (ISGl) ; Stal. Vet. Akad. 



Torh. 223, 1 (1862). 

 Heteuogaster — Meyer, Stett. Eat. Zeit. ii, S9 (1841). 

 Cymus (Cymus) — Flor, Rhyn. Liv. i, 299, 5 (1860). 



Head strongly punctured ; above reddish-ochreous, sides reddish- 

 brown ; beneath black. Antennce; 1st joint scarcely reaching to tlie 

 end of the face, usually piceous ; 2nd and Brd in length subequal, 

 reddish-ochreous ; 4th black, the base reddish-ochreous. Eyes black- 

 brown. Ocelli concolorous with the head. Rostrum ochreous 

 beneath ; above, and at the end piceous. 



