ANTHOCORID^. 49^ 



Head.^^AntenncB ; 2iid joint yellow-brown or red-brown, basd 

 black, apex brown. Ocelli red or brown. Rostrum black, base brown. 



Thorax.'— Pronotum ; sides very slightly curved, almost straight; 

 discoidal callosity smooth, the rest finely creuate-punctate. Scu- 

 tellum smooth, or delicately punctured behind. Elytra ; Clavus and 

 Coriu7n unicolorous light brown ; anterior margin of the latter and 

 cuneus of a deeper tinge; J/c/rtJrrtwe light yellowish-brown, apical 

 half a shade darker ; nerves concolorous. Sternum delicately trans- 

 versely erenate. Legs; fulcra, apex of thighs, and tibice, yellow- 

 brown, apex of the latter sometimes dusky ; tarsi brown-black ; Ist 

 and 2nd joints generally yellowish. 



Abdomen glossy ; above delicately erenate, almost destitute of 

 hairs ; beneatb finely punctured, with more perceptible, but very 

 short hairs ; genital segments with a few strong, projecting hairs. 



Length, 1| line. 



Fieber remarks of this species, " that it resembles the very pale 

 examples of Tetraphleps vittatus, but is distinguished by the uni- 

 colorous, yellowish elytra, and by the sides of the pronotum being 

 only in front narrowly reflexed." 



Common on Scotch fir and larch trees, from July to October. 



Species 2. — TemnoStethus pusillus. 



AnThocoris pusillus, //. Schf. Nom. Ent. i, 60 (1335) ; Watiz. ix, 225, 

 t. 316, fig. 977(1850). 



— ALflOFASCiATts, ¥ieh. Weit. Beitr. Ill, t. 2, fig. 10 (1836). 



— LUGUBKis, Bohem. Vet. Akad. Forli. 58, 13 (1852); Flor, 



Rhyn. Liv. i, 647, 2 (1860). 

 Tbmhostexhus pusillus, Fieb. Europ. Hem. 136, 1 (1861). 



Black, sides oi Wxo. pronotum sinuate, the margins narrow and sliarp ; 

 base of the elytra w^hitish ; tihice orange. 



Head smooth. Atitennce delicately short-haired ; 2nd joint, in the 

 (^, black, or red in the middle ; in the $ orange, with the ends only 

 black or dusky. Eyes black. Ocelli red. Rostrum black. 



Thorax.— Pronotum rather dull, sides sinuate, the margins very 

 narrow and thin; discoidal callosity almost smooth, behind it 

 transversely erenate. Scutellum ; base smooth, behind the middle 

 delicately erenate. Elytra ; Clavus black or brown, sometimes yel- 



