DEUiEOCORIDiE. 333 



disk convex. 8ciitellum triangular, convex ; sides slightly rounded, 

 near the base, with a short, transverse channel on either side, termi- 

 nating in a deep puncture. Elytra longer than the abdomen ; Clavus 

 convex, deflected to the corium ; Corium convex, slightly deflected 

 at the junction with the cuneus and membrane ; Cuneics long, trian- 

 gular. Sfenuciii : Prosternum ; xyphus triangular, concave, margined ; 

 Mesoslernum convex, elevated posteriorly, with a flattish cenlr;il 

 channel ; posterior margin convex ; Metasternum ; sides flattish ; 

 posterior margin rounded in the middle ; centre convex. Leys thin ; 

 somewhat long ; tarsi short ; 3rd joint longest, almost as long as 

 the other two ; 2ud joint shortest. 



SjJecies 1. — Pantilius tunicatus. 



CiUEXT UNICATUS, Fub. Mantiss. ii, 303, 242 (17S7). 



Lyg^us — Fab.K S. iv, 170, 121 (1794); S. R. 233, 14S (1803). 



MiRis — Germ. F. Ins. Eur. 5, tab. 23 (1813). 



Pin-TOCOKis — Fall. Hem. Saec. i, 85, 18 (1829). 



Pantilius — Curt. Eut. Mag. i, 197 (1833). 



Lorus — Mei/er, Caps. 40, 3 (1843); Kirschb. Cups. 37, 13 



(1855) ; Flor, llliyn. Liv. i, 441, 1 (ISGO). 

 CoxoiiETOPUS TDNICATUS, Fieb. Europ. Hem. 249 (ISGl). 



Eed, brownish-red, or greenish-yellow, thickly and irregularly 

 covered with deep black punctures, and thinly clothed with 

 very short yellow and black hairs intermixed. 



Head; margin of the antenniferous processes and clypeus 

 narrowly black. Antennce red or brownish-yellow, clothed with 

 very short, fine, black liairs ; 1st joint cylindrical, small at tlie base ; 

 gently curved on the inside beyond the latter, and somewhat con- 

 tracted before the apex ; black punctured ; base, frequently with a 

 narrow ring and the apex, black ; 2nd broadly black at the apex ; 

 basal half of the 3rd pale yellow, apex blackish or brownish ; base of 

 the 4th pale yellow, apex red or brownish. 



Thorax. — Pronotum with 2 callosities behind the collar; sides 

 narrowly black ; at the base, within the margin, generally yellowish. 

 Scutellum ; apex generally yellowish, or greenisli-yellow, with a short 

 keel. 'EJijtra : Corium ; anterior margin black ; within the latter 

 throughout its entire length pale yellow ; apex sometimes dusky ; 

 Cuneus ; anterior margin pale yellow, apex brownish ; or the cuneus 



