606 CORIXINA. 



black. Stermtm black, side lobes pale yellow, tbose of the meso- 

 and metasternum inwardly, and the sypbus, black. Le(/s pale yellow ; 

 1st pair, palce in tbe ^ broad-cultrate, pointed, above convex, at 

 the base oblique and widened ; in the $ of similar form, but nar- 

 rower ; 2nd pair, tarsi brown at the apex ; 3rd pair, tarsi, cilia 

 dusky ; all the cox(S black, dusky yellow at the apex. 



Abdomen above black ; Connexivum pale ; underside black, the 

 last 2 or 3 segments pale posteriorly. 



Length, 2-|- — 2i lines. 



Taken by Mr. Gr. E. Crotch, in the Cambridge Fens. 



Species 13. — Corixa striata. 



PNoTONECTA smiATA, Lbi. F. S. 901 (1761) ; S. N. 712, 2 (1767). 



? CoRiXA STKIATA, LecicJi, Trails. Liu. Soc. xii, 16, 2 (1S17). 

 CoEisA — i^iVii. Sjn. Coris. No. 17 (ISIS); Spec. Coris. 30, 33, 

 t. 2, fig. 4, palse (1S5]) ; IFalknt^. Oefv. xi, 147, 11 

 (1855) ; Fieb. Europ. Hem. 97, 2S (1861). 



— BASALTS {Costa), H. Schf. Wanz. ix, 58, t. 297, fig. 918 (1850). 



— (Coeisa) striata, Flor, Rliyu. Liv. i, 793, 7 (1860). 



Black, with transverse yellow markings, shining. Pronotum short, 

 with 6 yellow lines. Clavus at the base with a few, inwardly 

 broad, straight, yellow lines, the rest fine, irregular; corium 

 with fine, irregular, broken lines, at their outer ends crossed by 

 a distinct longitudinal black line, and near their inner ends by 

 a less distinct one. Falcs of the (^ broad cultrate, convex 

 above. 



Head yellow or brown ; Face; in the ^, the depression short, not 

 deep, not reaching upwards quite so far as the eyes. 



Thorax. — Pronotwm short, with 6 entire, straight, yellow lines ; 

 sides brown-black, yellow on the edge; longitudinal middle line 

 visible only on and raised across the first 2 transverse lines. Elytra; 

 Clavus with the first 4 or 5 yellow lines very broad, except at their 

 outer end, so that the base of the clavus inwardly is conspicuously 

 yellow ; the rest of the yellow lines very narrow, especially on the 

 middle of the disk, broken and irregular ; Corium with subparallel, 

 short irregular broken lines, crossed just before the inner edge of tlie 

 anterior marginal channel by a stout black line, leaving a narrow, 



