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very short, appressed, golden hairs, finely punctured, black ; on the 

 centre, and broadly round the hinder angles, a white gloss or tinge ; 

 posterior ^ ochreous, with numerous round black punctures, which 

 in the middle and at the hinder angles form spots ; the callus 

 ochreous. Scufelhcm black, finely punctured, the centre with a fine 

 depressed line, on either side of which, at the base, a whitish spot ; 

 apex ochreous, smooth. Elytra; Clavus ochreous, with contiguous 

 black punctures in 3 rows, posteriorly confluent, and forming lines ; 

 the base and a streak on the inner side of the apex black ; the side 

 next the scutellum with a pale streak ; Corium deep ochreous ; an- 

 terior margin clear, unpunctured, with a brown line on the edge ; 

 posterior margin yellow-brown, with a row of brown dots ; disk 

 punctured in rows, which posteriorly become confluent, and sur- 

 round 2 long, angulated spaces, whose base is towards and near the 

 posterior margin ; the upper portion of these angles is black, the 

 lower and lesser portion whitish ; apex of the corium (within the 

 margin) black; Membrane fuscous-black, with a large, clear, white 

 spot at the outer and inner basal angles and on the apex ; nerves 

 whitish. Sternum black, with a white gloss, and fine, distinct, 

 round puuctiu'es. Legs black, a spot at the base of the coxae, the 

 fidcra and apex of the thighs, red-brown; tihice ; 1st pair red-brown; 

 apex and base on the upper side black. 



Aldomen black; beneath delicately punctured, clothed with fine 

 silvery pubescence. 



Length, 2 — 2\ lines. 



In dry and sandy places, under leaves, &c. Darenth Wood, April ; 

 Bexley, November ; Brighthampton (>S^. Stone) ; Southend ( Wol- 

 laston) . 



Species 2. — Peritrechus nubilus. 



Lyg^us NTJBiLTJS, Fall. Hem. Suec. i, 54, 10 (1829) ; Zett. lus. Lap. 



263, 8 (1840). 

 Pachymerus ntibilus, Panz. F. G. 121, 5 ; ScJtill. Beitr. G8, 7, t. 7, 

 fig. 2 (1829); H. Schf. Nom. Ent. i, 45 

 (1835). 

 — GENicuLATUS, Eahi, WaDz. i, 68, t. 10, flg. 41 (1831). 



E-HYPAROCHKOMUS iREOBATUs, CuH. B. E. xili, 612, 22 (1836). 

 Beosus nubilus, Sahib. Geoc. Een. 65, 1 (1845). 



Pachymerus (PAcnY:irERUs) nubilus, Tlor, Rhyn. Liv. i, 246, 9 (1860). 

 Peuitrechus nubilus, Yieb. Europ. Hera. 184, 2 (1861) ; SlaU Vet. 

 Akad. Forh. 218, 2 (1862). 



