CORIXIDiE. 605 



the ? narrower, above with a longer curve to the apex ; 2ud pair, 

 tibicB brownish at the apex; 3rd pair, tarsi beneath, 1st joint pos- 

 teriorly, on each side of the apical margin, 2nd only at the base, 

 black. 



Abdomen above black, in the $ rufescent at the sides ; underside 

 dull yellow; in the ^J the 1st 4 or 5 segments, in the ? the 1st 2, 

 black ; Genital sec/ments fuscous, the margins pale. 



Length, 3^ lines. 



Scarce. In the Eaveusbourne, Lewisham, in October. 



Sjjecies 12. — Corixa nigrolineata. 



CoJJiSA NlGKOLiNEATA, Fied. Sjn. Coris. No. 2i (ISiS); Spec. Coris. 34, 

 4:0, t. 2, fig. 18, palffi (1851); Europ. Ileui. 96, 

 24 (1861). 



CoRiXA LINEOLATA, H. ScJif. Waiiz. ix, 55, t, 295, fig. 911 (1850). 



Above light yellowish-gray, with fine, transverse, black lines, the 

 intermediate spaces much broader. Pronotum with 7 — 8 black 

 lines, sometimes shortened and confluent in the middle. The 

 lines on the clavus straight and parallel, on the corium sub- 

 parallel, with their edges jagged, the ends often furcate. Palce 

 in the (J broad-cultrate, above convex, base widened. 



Head pale yellow, or brown on the Crown ; posterior margin a 

 little produced in the middle; Face; in the ^J, the depression 

 reaching upwards to the eyes, its margin in front straight. 



Thorax. — Pronotum short, rounded behind, with 7 — 8 black lines, 

 sometimes shortened and confluent in the middle ; side margins 

 black ; the longitudinal middle line visible only as a short keel in 

 front. Elytra; Clavus throughout with straight, narrow, parallel, 

 black lines, occasionally furcate at the end ; Corium with the black 

 lines not so straight or regular as on the clavus, especially pos- 

 teriorly, their edges somewhat jagged and the ends more furcate, 

 opposite the posterior inner angle traversed by a very short longitu- 

 dinal black streak ; anterior marginal channel black, yellow on and 

 under the overhanging inner edge ; beyond the end of the channel 

 broadly yellow ; line of the membrane-suture pale, broadest out- 

 wardly, followed by a dark line ; Membrane with fine, angulated, 

 hieroglyphic characters, on all the margins short, parallel ; margins 



