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BEITISH HEMIPTERA—A.1^ ADDITIONAL GENUS AND SPECIES. 

 BY J. W. DOUGLAS. 



Section 5.— LYG^INA. 

 Family 1.— EHYPAROCHEOMIDiE. 



Genus EMBLETHI8, Fieb. 

 Long-oval, broad. 



Head short, pentagonal, deeply inserted in tbe tborax. A>itennce 

 short, slender ; 1st joint short, stout ; 2nd more than twice the 

 length of 1st ; 3rd shorter than 2nd ; 4th rather shorter than 

 3rd, thin fusiform. Et/es small, not projecting beyond the 

 anterior angles of the pronotum. Bostrum reaching to the 

 middle of the metasternum ; 1st joint as long as the head, 2nd 

 reaching to the anterior coxae. 



Thorax : pronotum short, trapezoidal, or rather sub-quadrate, the sides 

 anteriorly rounded off to the angles, flatly produced throughout ; 

 front emarginate ; disc convex, less so on the posterior third ; 

 posterior margin nearly straight. Scutellum large, long-triangular. 

 Elytra broad ; clavus narrow ; membrane with five nerves, the 

 two inner ones sinuate at the base. Legs : tliigJis, 1st pair with 

 six to eight small spines on the under-side ; tarsi long, 1st joint 

 longer than the 2nd and 3rd together, on the 3x'd pair twice as 

 long. 



Among the British genera, this comes nearest to Cnlyptonotus, 

 D. and S. 



Species 1. — Emblethis teebasci. 

 Lygmis rerhasci, Fab., S. E., 235, 161 (1803). 



„ pilifrons, Zett., k. Yet. Acad. Handl. 71, 21 (1819). 

 Pachymems marginepunctatus, H.-Schf., Panz. F. Gr. 118, 7 {nee 



Wolff). 

 Emblethis platy chillis, Fieb., Europ. Hem. 197, 1 (1861). 

 „ verbasci, Stal, Hem. Fab., i, 79, 1 (1868). 



Dull, Tipper surface dingy oclireous, obscured by close, fine, black punctures ; face, 

 antenncB, and legs setose ; pronotum, sides broadly foliaceous, naked. 



Head : middle lobe prominent, its sides anteriorly set with short, stout, projecting 

 black hairs ; there are also one or two similar hairs immediately before each eye. 

 AntenncB piceous, apex of 1st joint ochreous, beset tliroughout with short, pro- 

 jecting hairs, strong on the Ist and 2nd joints. Eyes black. Rostrum dark 

 piceous. 



Thorax : pronotum, the foliaceous sides broad, naked, ochreous, both on the upper 

 and under-sides with large black punctures, sometimes confluent ; disc covered 



