540 REDUVINA. 



with 2 rows of black spots connected by a line, and 2 other, indis- 

 tinct, black lines ; stigmata black, on a large yellow base. 



Length, 7 lines, cJ . 



A single example is in the collection of Thomas Marshall, Esq., of 

 Leicester, and he writes to us concerning it: — " I found it some 30 

 years ago, beneath a piece of sandstone, at Quatford, near Bridg- 

 north, in Shropshire, in the middle of September." 



Genus 3.— Coranus, Curt. 

 Long, sub-elliptic. 



Head subovate, elevated in front, deflected to the pronotum, be- 

 hind the eyes elongate, convex, obconic, broadest across the eyes, 

 short before the transverse incision ; Face triangular, deflected in a 

 curve ; central lobe prominent ; side lobes scarcely visible ; cheek- 

 plates broad, compressed, Jntennce inserted on the top of the head, 

 close to the eyes, 8-jointed, elbowed at the junction with the 2nd 

 joint ; 1st joint very short obconic ; 2nd, 4th, 6th, and 8th long, 

 stout, cylindrical, of about equal thickness, 2nd and 8th of nearly 

 equal length, 4th and 6th 1 the length of the 2nd ; 3rd, 5th, and 7th 

 very short. Eyes moderate, globose, very prominent. Ocelli small, 

 distant, insertedjust behind the transverse incision. Bostrum rather 

 longer than the head, very stout, cylindrical, curved, the apex rest- 

 ing on the presternum ; 2nd joint longest ; lahnnn ovate-conic, 

 articulated at the middle, and terminating in a trigonate lobe. 



Thorax. — Pronotum subtrapezoidal, almost hexagonal, the con- 

 striction on the sides before the middle deep ; side margins 

 incrassated ; the transverse furrow deep, the disk before it con- 

 vex, with 4 short, longitudinal channels ending in the transverse 

 furrow ; anterior angles much rounded ; the posterior portion 

 flatter ; hinder angles incrassated, prominent, rounded, with a 

 channel on the inner side ; the short hinder sides converging to the 

 scutellum, across which the posterior margin is somewhat squarely 

 concave. Scutellum appears as a prominent, hindwardly projecting, 

 obtuse cone. Elytra (in British examples) not | the length of the 

 abdomen ;* Memhrane abbreviated, but the 2 basal cells, though 



* We know but of one exception, a <? , taken by Mr. Dale at Cliristclmrcli, 

 Hants, in October, 1830, which has the membrane of the elytra and the tcinys 

 fully developed. Fallen mentions such examples, ^, having been found in 

 Sweden by Gylleuhal and Zetterstedt. 



