RHYPAROCHROMIDyE. 171 



TJiorax. — Pronotum ; fore half dull black, except the collar on the 

 anterior margin, which is reddish-brown ; hinder half ochreous, 

 more or less suffused with piceous spots ; sides and hinder 

 angles bi'oadly clear and unpunctured ; disk lightly punctured and 

 with distant, very short, yellowish hairs. Scutellum black, the sides 

 punctured, the apex ochreous ; a spot on each side of the base of 

 the central ridge reddish ; Elytra, Clavus, and Corium, ochreous, 

 with brown shades and fine, short, yellow hairs, and several lines of 

 contiguous, piceous punctures, between which, inwardly, is a long 

 clear spot of the ground colour, broadest on the posterior margin, 

 and another undefined spot, outwardly, near the apex ; the anterior 

 margin is also clear, with a brown line on its edge; Memhrane light- 

 fuscous-brown ; the nerves, the base to beyond the 2nd nerve, a 

 large spot on the anterior margin, and another on the posterior mar- 

 gin outside the 2nd nerve, whitish. Stermim black, with a whitish 

 gloss, punctured ; posterior margin of the Metasternum reddish- 

 brown. L^gs reddish-brown ; liinder tliighs with an indistinct dark 

 ring towards the apex ; tarsi ; last joint piceous at the extremity. 



Abdomen. — Conncxivum reddish. Underside black, finely punc- 

 tured, and with fine, short, yellow hairs. 



Length, 2| — 3 lines. 



Eare. In the collection of Mr. Dale, and once taken by Mr. G. 

 Crotch in the Cambridge Tens. 



Genus 3. — Calyptonotus * 



(RUYPAROCHKOMUS, Fieb.)-\ 



Long, thick, flat above, elliptic ; sides nearly parallel. 



Head broad, very convex ; Face triangular ; central lobe sharply 

 defined, broadest at the apex ; side lobes pointed in front, not so 

 long as the central lobe. Antennce long, stout ; 1st joint subclavate, 

 one half its length reaching beyond the end of the face ; 2nd and 3rd 



* KakvTTTw, to cover as a shiekl, and vwtoc, the back. 



f Curtis ('B. E.' p. 612) expressly says that Lygmis Clarugra, Fab., is 

 the type of his genus Rhi/parochronnis, consequently his generic name must be 

 retained for that section of the original genus which contains the species, i. e. 

 Megalonoius, I'ieb. 



