498 ANTHOCORINA. 



Head smooth. Antennce black, with short, yellowish hairs ; 2nd 

 joint rarely reddish in the middle or on the basal ^. Ui/es black. 

 Ocelli red. Nostrum black. 



Thorax. — Pronotum ; sides almost sinuate, the margin very 

 narrow, perceptible only on the 1st 3rd. Scutellum shining ; base 

 smooth, the rest transversely crenate. Elytra ; Clavus dull, smooth, 

 yellow-brown; towards the apex piceous, or rarely piceous-black, 

 with a long orange spot towards the inner side ; Corium shining, 

 smooth ; base, and usually the anterior margin, yellow-brown ; disk 

 posteriorly piceous or black ; end of the embolium with a yellowish 

 spot ; Cuneus lustrous black, with a punctured coriaceous surface ; 

 Membrane white, with a metallic lustre ; apical 3rd, and 3 long, 

 broad streaks above it, between the nerves, black ; cell-nerve black. 

 "When the elytra are closed the membrane appears black, with 3 

 large, white spots, as in A. nemoralis. Stermvm shining ; middle 

 smooth ; sides finely crenate. Legs ; fulcra yellow-brown ; thighs 

 black or piceous, apex yellow-brown ; sometimes the basal ^ yellow- 

 brown, or the 1st pair only all yellow-brown ; tihicB deep yellow- 

 brown ; base always broadly piceous ; apex narrowly dusky. 



Abdomen beneath shining, the segments delicately crenate- 

 punctate. 



Length, 1\ — 1^ line. 



Pound by us on old broom bushes {Sarothamnus scoparius) at 

 Weybridge, in July and August (1863) ; about 30 specimens. 



This species is very close to A. nemoralis, and Dr. Fieber con- 

 siders it identical ; but it appears to us to be quite distinct, 

 distinguished by its smaller size, its blackness, its lustre ; the 

 antennce nearly always entirely black ; the base of the tibiae always 

 dark, and its habitat being restricted to the broom. 



Genus 4. — Lyctocoris, Hahn. 



Broad, oval. 



Head broad, short ; Crown very short, slightly convex ; Face ob- 

 tuse ; the lobes broad, and of equal length. Antennce ; 1st and 2nd 

 joints thick ; 1st cylindrical, reaching to the end of the face ; 2nd gra- 

 duate clavate, about 2 J times as long as the 1st ; 3rd and 4th thin, fili- 

 form ; in length subequal. Uyes large, oval, as long as the crown ; 

 prominent. Ocelli large, distant, inserted close to the base of the 



