183 LYGiEINA. 



apex ; the 4tli and 5th arising near together, before the inner basal 

 angle, curving inward and then outward parallel to each other, then 

 slightly diverging and straight to the posterior margin. Sternum; 

 Mesosternum in front with a sharp keel, to the posterior end of which 

 is joined a lozenge-shaped furrow, ending in the xyphus ; in the ^J 

 this is narrower, with a raised process on each side ; Metasternum 

 rather narrow, the raised middle with a rhomboid depression. Legs : 

 thighs ; 1st pair greatly incrassated, fusiform, flattened beneath, the 

 inner edge finely dentate, with one large tooth in the middle, or 

 angulated beneath, with the 1st i keeled, ending in a long obtuse 

 tooth, and the 2nd I finely dentate, with a large tooth in the middle 

 (S. contractus) ; tihice ; 1st pair curved, in the ^ widened inwardly 

 at the end, and with 2 very small teeth, or with 3 or 4 other very 

 fine serrations on the inner margin ; tarsi long ; 1st joint as long as 

 the 2nd and 3rd, on the third pair twice as long. 



Species 1. — Scolopostethus pictus. 



Pachtmekus pictus, Sc/iill. Beitr. 79, 22, t. 7, fig. 1 (1829) ; //. Sc/if. 

 Panz. F. G. 120, 5 ; Ha/m, Wanz i, 64 & 140, 

 t. 10, fig. 39 (1831); H. Schf. Norn. Eut. i. 45 

 (1835). 



Ltgjeus roDAGRicrs, Fall. Hem. Suec. 63, 24 (1829); 't Fab. 



Pachymerus (Paohymektjs) podagricus, var. 1, Flor, Ubyn. Liv. i, 279 



(1860). 



Scolopostethus pictus, Fieb. Europ. Hem. 189, 5 (1861). 



Black. Antennce long, slender, yellow-brown. Pronotv/m in front 

 scarcely wider than the head across the eyes ; side margins with 

 a white spot ; posterior portion of the disk ochreous, with a 

 middle white line. Clavus and corium pale ochreous ; the former 

 with a posterior dark spot ; the latter posteriorly with a broad 

 black band, and across the middle 4 black spots, forming with 

 those on the clavus an irregular transverse row. Legs yellow ; 

 thighs, 1st pair black on the sides, 3rd pair with a narrow sub- 

 apical black ring. Distinguished from S. aijimctus by the 

 greater size; the slender, pale antennce ; the pronotum narrower 

 in front; the transverse row of spots on tlie corium not being 

 straight, and the black ring on tlie posterior thiglis. 



