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the 5th sinuate, to the posterior margin. Sternum ; Mesosternum 

 keeled in front, hindwardly witli a rhomboidal furrow, ending at the 

 point of the xyphus ; Metasternum unequally rhomboidal, hindwardly 

 prolonged. Lerjs : iliirjlis ; 1st pair iucrassated, flattened, fusiform ; 

 the underside with a sliglit channel, with small teeth on the edges, 

 and on the inner edge two larger than the rest ; tibics ; 1st pair 

 strong, bent at the apex, much widened inwardly, with a deep 

 channel on the side ; on the underside, in the (J , 5 or 6 very small 

 spines, the last two being the largest ; in the ? these spines are 

 replaced by bristles ; tarsi slender; 1st joint, on the 1st and 2nd 

 pairs, about 1 i- times, on the 3rd pair twice, longer than the 2nd 

 and 3rd ; 2nd and 3rd joints short. 



Species 1. — Eremocoris erraticus. 



Lyg^us EKKATicus, i^f/i. F. S. iv, 167, 109 (1794); S. R. 232,139 

 (1S03); Fall. Mou. Cim. 65, 12 (1807); Hem. 

 Suec. 60, 19 (1829) ; Zett. F. Ins. Lap. i, 472 9 

 (1832) ; lus. Lap. 264, 1 (1840) ; Paiiz. F. G. 

 121, 3. 

 Pachymekus EiiRATicus, ScJiUl. Beitr. i, 74, 15 (1829) ; H. Schf. Nom. 

 Ent. i, 44 (1835). 

 — FENESTRATUS, K. Sclif. Waiiz, iv, 95, t. 140, fig. 437 



(1839). 

 Rhypakochkoivius EKKATicus, Salilb. Geoc. Fen. 62, 12 (1848). 

 Pachymerus (Pachymerus) erraticus, Flor, Rhyu. Liv. i, 279, 27 



(1860). 

 Eremocoris erraticus, Fieh. Europ. Hem. 188, 1 (1861) ; Stal, Vet, 

 Akad. F5rh. 219, 1 (1862). 



Elliptic, black; the last 3rd of the pronotum, the corium and 

 clavus, yellow-brown, the corium with a central black spot ; 

 the onemhrane with a large white spot at the outer basal angle, 

 and another at the outer posterior angle. 



Head finely punctured. Antennce with fine yellowish hairs, some- 

 what prominent on the 1st joint. Rostrum piceous. 



Thorax. — Pronotum ; 1st f rds black, with fine distant punctures ; 

 the last 3rd yellow-brown, with larger, deeper, and more distant 

 punctures ; a broad black line continued from the front down tlie 

 inner side of the callus, and sometimes two large, diverging black 



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