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Head dull, finely punctured ; apex of the central lobe of the Face 

 rufous. Anfennce long, slender, finely pubescent, yellow-brown ; 3rd 

 and -ith joints sometimes brownish. E//es and Ocelli brown. Bos- 

 strum yellowish, 1st joint piceous. 



Thorax. — Pronotum dull, scarcely wider across the anterior angles 

 than the head across the eyes ; anterior margin narrowly rufous ; 

 anterior angles rou.nded ; sides divergent to the hinder angles, side 

 margins whitish, with a brown line on the edge, at the widened part 

 clear white ; hinder angles with a black spot ; disk in front finely 

 punctured ; posterior portion ochreous, with distinct brown punctures, 

 a whitish longitudinal middle line and an indistinct brownish spot on 

 each side of it. ScuteJlum finely punctured, apex sometimes rufous. 

 Elytra ; CZ«y«5pale ochreous, with 4 rows of brown punctures and a 

 posterior brown or piceous spot ; Corium slightly shining, pale 

 ochreous, posteriorly broadly black or piceous ; on each elytron 2 

 black or brown spots, the inner one narrower and nearer to the 

 base than the outer one, the 4 forming with the 2 on the clavus 

 an irregular transverse row ; between the spots and the posterior 

 band the ground colour is clearer and lighter ; punctures brown ; 

 Membrane shining, whitish ; nerves brown, except the base of the 2 

 outer ones. Sternum finely punctured ; an orange spot at the base 

 of each coxa ; Frosternum ; anterior, lateral, and posterior margins 

 orange ; Metasternum ; posterior margin broadly orange ; Ee^s 

 yellow; thiglis ; 1st pair with a long black spot on each side; 2nd 

 pair sometimes indistinctly brownish before the apex ; 3rd pair with 

 a narrow black ring before the apex ; tarsi ; 3rd joint brownish 

 towards the apex. 



Abdomen beneath, shining, with a fine whitish pubescence. 



Length, 2 lines. 



Rare. One specimen near London ; one, Littlington, Cambridge- 

 shire, in February {Dr. Power) ; and one at Glanvilles Wootton, 

 Dorset, in July (Dale). 



Sjjecies 2.— Scolopostethus adjunctus. 



Pachymekus decokatus, Abiind. d & c, Halm, "Wanz. i, 139 (1S31). 



— (Pachymeeus) poDAGEicus, p. Flor, Ehyn. Liv. i, 277, 26 



(18(50). 

 ScoLOPOSTExnus AEFiNis, var. b, Stal, Vet. Akad. Porli. 220, 1 (1S62). 



Black. Antenna stout, 1st and 2nd joints orange. Pronotum wider 



