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shortened in the centre. Genital segments ; the 3rd is very wide 

 and biiobed, the middle channel being deep and keeled. 



Sjjecies 1. — Gastrodes Abietis. 



CiMEx A3IETIS, Lin. F. S. 257, 969 (1761) ; S. X. ii, 732, 115 (1767); 



Panz. r. G. 92, 22. 

 ? — GROssiPEs, De G. Mem. iii, 308, 37, t. 15, figs. 20, 21 (1773). 

 MiBis Abietis, Fab. E. S. iv, 187, 15 (179:t); S. E. 256, 16 (1803). 

 Lyg-eus — Fall. Hem. Suec. 61, 21 jS (1829). 

 Platygastee Abietis, Schill. Beitr. 83, 2 (1829) ; H. Schf. Norn. Eat. i, 

 45 (1835); Kolen. Mel. Eut. ii, 86, 57 (1815). 

 Pachymerus (Ancyloptjs) Abietis, Flor, Khyn. Liv. i, 233, 4 (1860). 

 HoiiALODEMA Abietis, Fieb. Europ. Hem. 187, 1 (1861) ; Slal^ Vet. 

 Akad.Eorh. 219,1 (1862). 



Ajitenncs black, 1st joint and lower part of 2ud red-brown, the end 

 of the 1st scarcely projecting beyond the end of the face ; the 

 side margins of the pronotum rellexed throughout ; corium with 

 a large pale spot. 



Head black, finely punctured. AntenncB black, 1st joint and the 

 lower half of the 2nd red-brown ; the end of the 1st scarcely pro- 

 jecting beyond the end of the face. Ei/es, Ocelli, and Rostrum, 

 piceous. 



Thorax. — Pronotum ; first frds black, smooth, with a row of punc- 

 tures just within the anterior and lateral margins ; the last 3rd 

 ochreous-brown, with fine brown punctures ; lateral margins yellow, 

 with a brown edge, reflexed, at first narrow, gradually widening as 

 far as the black colour extends, then again narrow. Scutelhim\>\a.Qk, 

 the central depression large, finely punctured. Elytra; Clavus 

 gray-brown, with 4 rows of punctures, the inner one black ; Corium 

 ochreous-brown or cinnamon-brown, with a large, undefined, pale 

 spot within the posterior inner angle ; Memlrane fuscous-brown, the 

 basal inner angle and the base a little before it white. Sternum 

 finely punctured, the central swelling smooth; the sides of all the 

 segments and the posterior margin of the Pro- and Metastcrmijn 

 ochreous-red. Legs light red-brown ; in the ? the thighs beneath, on 

 the first frds flat, on the outer edge, to bevond the middle, with 



