198 LYGiElNA. 



Sjjecies 2. — Drymus brunneus. 



Rhyparochromus bkunneus, Sahib. Geoc. Fen. 57, 6 (1848). 

 Pachymerus — Bohem. Vet. Akad. Handl. 248 (1849). 



— PALLiDULUs, H. Schf. Wanz. ix, 213 (1850). 



Drymus kotatus, Fieb. Europ. Hera. 179, 3 (18C1). 

 — BRUNNEUS, Stal. Vet. Akad. Porh. 217, 2 (] SG2). 



Oval, convex, black. Anfennce piceous ; end of the last joint yel- 

 lowisli-brown ; elj/tra piceous, with a central pale spot. 



Head black, finely punctured. Antenncs piceous, witli fine, long, 

 projecting hairs ; terminal half of the last joint yellowish-brown. 

 Eyes black, piceous or red. Ocelli black. Bostnim brownish- 

 yellow. 



Thorax. — Pronotum broad, longer than wide, but little broader 

 behind than in front ; sides deeply contracted beyond the middle, 

 side margins piceous ; disk, first *rds black or piceous-black, finely 

 punctured ; last 3rd piceous, anteriorly sharply defined and de- 

 pressed, sometimes as a transverse baud, with large, deep, angulated 

 punctures ; the callus narrow, smooth. Scutellmn black, posteriorly 

 piceous, finely punctured. Elytra; Clavus pitchy-brown (often in 

 the middle and next the claval suture a pale streak), with 4 rows of 

 punctures, the 2 middle ones being confluent at the base; Corium; 

 anterior margin much rounded, at the base ochreous, but throughout 

 with a brown line on the edge ; disk pitchy-browu, very convex, 

 somewhat strongly and distantly punctured ; the lower 3rd of the 

 inner nerve fuscous-black (the colour spreading outwardly), with a 

 pale streak above it, often expanding outwardly into a pale ochreous 

 spot : Membrane fuscous-black ; round the sides crenate ; base 

 brown, outwardly yellowish, the colour expanding behind the ex- 

 terior angle into a large spot, and at the inner angle into a small 

 one ; nerves whitish, with an interrupted fuscous line down the 

 centre of each ; within the anterior mai^gin the ground colour is 

 darker, and being bounded by the 1st nerve, there appears to be a 

 black spot margined with white. Sternum black, finely punctured. 

 Leys ; thiyhs black, apex piceous, or entirely piceous ; tibicc almost 

 nude, piceous-brown ; tarsi paler. 



