168 LYGiEINA. 



several small black teetb, and a large red one at the end of tlierow ; 

 tlie rest of the flat portion smooth ; the remaining 3rd is suddenly 

 contracted on the fore side to an edge, which extends to the apex, 

 and is set with several black teeth, of which the first is much the 

 largest ; more beneath is a second row of very small teeth. (In the 

 ^, according to Flor, the fore thighs are perceptibly thinner, not 

 contracted beyond the middle, and with only one strong tooth in the 

 denticulation.) Tarsi hairy beneath; the last ^ of the 3rd joint 

 piceous. 



Abdomen beneath ochreous-red, very finely punctured. 



Length, 3^^ lines. 



On spruce firs {Pmus Abies). Woolmer {Wollaston) . 



Species 2. — Gastrodes ferrugineus. 



CiMEX FERRUGINEUS, Litt. S. N. ii, 730, 99 (17G7). 



LYGiEUS Abietis, Fall. Hem. Suec. 61, 21 (1829); Zeit. las. Lap. 264, 



13 (1840). 

 Platygaster FERRUGINEUS, Schill. Beitr. 82, 1, t. 7, fig. 7 (1829); 



Hahi, Waiiz. iii, 34, t. 84, fig. 254 

 (1835) ; H. Sc/if. Norn. Eut. i, 45 (1835) ; 

 Kole?i. Mel. Eiit. ii, 85, 55 (1845). 

 B-HYPAROCHROMUS — Sa/ild. Geoc. Een. 64, 17 (1845). 



Pachymerus (Ancylopus) ferrugineus, Flor, Ehyn Liv. 235, 5 



(1860). 

 Homalodema ferrugineus, Fieb. Euvop. Hem. 187, 2 (1861) ; Slul, 



Vet. Akad. Eorh. 219, 2 (1862). 



AntenncE brown-red, 1st joint reaching by about ^ its length beyond 

 the end of the face ; pronotum, side margins reflexed posteriorly 

 only ; corium without a pale spot. 



JZeai black, finely punctured. AntenncB redi-'bro'wn\ the 1st, 3rd, 

 and 4th joints often more or less piceous, half the length of the first, 

 projecting beyond the end of the face. Eyes and Ocelli black. 

 Rostrum piceous. 



Thorax. — Pronotum finely punctured ; first frds black, the side mar- 

 gins turned down and under ; last 3rd ochreous-brown or cinnamon- 



