ANTHOCORID^. 501 



Head smooth, Antennce pitchy black, finely haired ; base and apex 

 of the 2nd joint narrowly whitish. Eyes black. Ocelli red. Bostnm^ 

 yellow-brown. 



Tliorax. — Pronotum smooth, posteriorly delicately crenate-punc- 

 tate. Scutellum smooth. Elytra ; Clavus and Corium slightly shining, 

 yellowish, the former dusky at the apex; Cmieus more or less 

 piceous, sometimes only on the inner margin ; Memhrane white, 

 lustrous, iridescent. Legs; tldylis pitchy black ; t'lbice and tarsi 

 yellow-brown. 



Abdomen shining, smooth. 



Length, li line. 



Plentiful near London, in spring and summer, among the straw in 

 heaps of stable-dung ib fields. 



S-pecies 2. — Piezostethus rufipennis, 



Xylocobis rufipennis, L. Daf. Au. Soc. Eat. France, ii, 106, 1 (1833) ; 



Burnt. Haudb. ii, 290, 1 (1S35). 

 Lyctocokis coRTiCALis, Huhn, Waiiz. iii, 21, t. 79, fig. 2'M (1835). 

 Xylocoris bicolor, Sckoltz, Arb. u. Verand. (1816). 



— LATIOR, Muls. An. Soc. Lin. 106 (1852). 



— OBLiQUUS, Cusia, Cent. (1852). 



— (Xylocoris) rufipennis, Flor, Rliyn. Liv. i, 608, 2 (1860). 

 Piezostethus bicolor & P. rufipennis, Fieb. Europ. Hem. 139, 3 & 4, 



(1861). 



Black, shining ; clavus \nceo\x^ or pitchy yellowish ; corium dusky yel- 

 lowish ; emholium ajiiicuneus pitchy black ; memhrane white. 



Head Qvaooih.. Antennce ; 1st and 2nd joints pitchy black, with 

 short hairs ; 3rd, and 4th, pale piceous, apex of the 4th still paler. 

 Ocelli red. JRostrum pitchy yellow. 



Thorax. — Pronotum smooth, posteriorly delicately crenate. Scii- 

 tellmn smooth, with short, yellowish pubescence. Elytra; Clavus 

 piceous or pitchy yellowish ; Corium within the embolium, dusky- 

 yellowish, rather dull ; Emholium and Cuneus pitchy black, shining ; 

 Memhrane clear white, shining. Legs ; thighs black, apex yellowish- 

 brown ; tihicB and tarsi yellow-brown ; 3rd pair darkest. 



Abdomen shining, with fine, short, whitish hairs. 



Length, 1\ line. 



Rare ; under loose bark of oaks and other trees, in spring. 



