180 LYGiEINA. 



Species 1. — Dieuches luscus. 



Lyg^us luscus, Fab. E. S. iv, 165, 103 (1794) ; S. R. 231, 133 (1803) ; 

 Wolff, Ic. Cira. 145, t. 14, fig. 139 (1804). 

 — QUADRATUS, Pmiz. F. G. 92, 11. 

 Paciiymerus luscus, ScJiill. Beitr. i, 67, 6, t. 6, fig. 4 (1829) ; Hahn, 

 Wauz. i, 48, t. 8, fig. 30, (1831) ; Bum. Handb. 

 ii, 295, 6 (1835); U. Schf. Norn. Ent. i, 45 

 (1835). 

 Beosus auADRATUS, Am. et Serv. Hem. 254, 1 (1843). 

 IscHNOTARsus LUSCUS, Fieb. Europ. Ilem. 192, 4 (1861). 



Black ; the margins and posterior -i of the 'pronotum oclireous ; elytra 

 ochreous; beyond the middle a broad, irregular band nearly 

 across the disk, and a broad line on the posterior margin, black. 



Head with fine yellowish, ap pressed hairs, and round, irregularly 

 placed punctures. Antennce brownish-yellow, with fine pubescence ; 

 1st joint with a brownish spot or ring ; 2nd and 3rd brown at the 

 apex ; 4th black, narrowly yellowish at the base. Eyes brown. Ocelli 

 reddish. Rostrum yellow, the last joint piceous. 



Thorax. — Pronotum ; anterior and side margins yellow, the latter 

 with a brown line on the edge ; disk, 1st i or more black, strcmgly 

 punctured on all the sides, finer in the centre ; hinder portion 

 ochreous, with large, deep, black punctures ; the central line clear, 

 a line on each side of it, the callus, and the base of the side margins, 

 black. Scutellum transversely, deeply crenate-punctate, black ; a long 

 spot at each side and the apex ochreous. Elytra ; Clavus ochreous, 

 shaded with brown ; with 3 rows of brown punctures, posteriorly 

 confluent ; Corium ochreous ; anterior margin with a brown line on 

 the edge, posterior margin pale ; disk with brown punctures in rows '■> 

 nerves pale ; below the middle a broad, 5-sided, transverse, black 

 band, extending from the anterior margin as far as the 2nd nerve, 

 beyond which is a brown line ; below the baud a large, triangular 

 whitish spot extends from the anterior margin to the middle, where 

 a black-punctured line comes down from the band above ; beyond this 

 a small spot lies in the inner posterior angle, and under the large 

 white spot a deeply punctured black line within the posterior margin ; 

 apex black ; Membrane fuscous-black ; base black, outwardly with a 

 deep transverse impression ; nerves on the basal 3rd pale. Sternum 

 black, crenate-punctate ; anterior and posterior margins ofProsternum 



