190 TiYG^F.IXA. 



Genus 10. — Drymus, Ficb. 

 Oval or elliptic. 



Head 5-sided, short, pointed ; base narrower than the front of the 

 pronotum : Face ; central lobe prominent ; side lobes as long as the 

 central lobe, compressed, pointed. Antenrue ; 1st joint not thick, 

 i its length reaching beyond the end of the face ; 2nd twice as 

 long as the 1st, gradnally clavate ; 3rd f ths as long as the 2nd, 

 thick-fusiform ; 4th not longer than the 3rd, fusiform. Eyes small, 

 semi-globose. Ocelli small, distant. Bostrum reaching to the 2nd 

 pair of coxse, 2nd joint longest. 



Thorax. —PronoUi/m campanulate, narrower in front thanposteriorly, 

 but close behind the anterior margin wider than the width of the 

 head across the eyes ; anterior angles rounded ; sides concave or 

 constricted in the middle ; side margins narrow, reflexed ; posterior 

 margin slightly concave ; disk convex in front, flatter behind, gene- 

 rally across the middle a depression, within the hinder angles raised 

 into a callus. Scutellum triangular, with a wide, deep, transverse 

 hollow in the centre. Elytra ; Corium outwardly and posteriorly 

 convex, inwardly depressed, at the base rather wider than the pro- 

 notum ; anterior margin rounded ; posterior margin straight ; nerves 

 on the basal half prominent ; Membrane with 4 nerves, the two inner 

 curved at the base, at first inwardly and then outwardly. Sternum ; 

 Mesosternum transversely convex in front, with a pointed keel 

 xyphus narrow ; ilf(°;'rts/er«?;?« small, rhomboidal, with a sharp keel 

 Legs: thighs ; 1st pair not much thickened, fusiform; on the under 

 side a channel, on the anterior edge of which is 1 small tooth 

 tihice, 1st pair in the ^ , at the end somewhat bent, widened inter 

 nally, with a channel on the side ; tarsi ; 1st joint on the 3rd pair 

 much longer than on the 1st and 2nd. 



Species 1. — Drymus sylvaticus. 



Lyg^us sylvaticus, Fab. E. S. iv, 103, 98 (1791); S. R. 229, 12G 

 (1803); Fall. Mon. Cim. 67,10 (1807); Hem. 

 Suec. 59, 17 (1S29). 



