2 (June, 
posteriorly. Legs moderately stout ; tJiighs, 1st pair scarcely 
thicker than the others, unarmed; tarsi stout, long, 1st joint as 
long as the other two together, on the 3rd pair longer. 
Abdomen — flat above, beneath sub-cylindrically convex : abdominal 
segments of equal length, posterior margin of the 6th in the ^ 
roundly, in the $ angularly cut out. Genital segments beneath — 
in the ^ 2 only visible, the 1st of them only in the middle, the 
2nd broad and hindwardly rounded ; in the 5 short, rounded 
posteriorly, the 1st and 2nd form two lateral angular plates, whose 
inner margins touch, the 3rd lies in the opening between them. 
Species 1. — LtgjlUs equesteis. 
CiMEx EQUESTEIS, Lin., F. S., 253, 946 (1761) ; S. N., ii., 726, 77 (1767). 
De Gear, Mem., iii., 276, 19 (1773). Fah., S. E., 718, 104 
(1775) ; Mantiss., ii., 298, 185 (1787). 
CiMEx sPECiosES, Scop., Eut. Cam., 127, 369 (1763). 
Ltg/eijs eqtjestkis. Fab., E. S., iv., 147, 43 (1794). Wolff, Ic. Cim., 
24, 24, t. 3, fig. 24 (1800). Fah., S. E., 217, 57 (1803). 
Panz., F. Gc., 79, 19. Fall., Hem. Suec, i., 48, 1 (1829). 
Scliill, Beitr., i., 58, 1 (1829). Halin, Wanz., i., 21, t. 3, 
fig. 12 (1831). Curt., B. E., x., pi. 481 (1833). H. Schf., 
Norn. Ent., ], 44 (1835). Burm., Handb., ii., 298, 3 (1835). 
Kolen., Mel Ent., ii., 74, 38 (1845). SaJdh., Geoc, Fen., 53, 1 
(1848). Flor., Rhyn. Liv., i., 222, 2 (1860). Fieh., Europ. 
Hem., 166, 5 (1861). Stal, Oefv. Vet. Akad. Forh., 212, 1 
(1862). 
Black, smooth, dull, unpunctured, with very small, distant, yellow 
scale-hairs ; upper side of the head, pronotum, elytra, and abdomen deep 
red, with black markings ; w.emJ)rane black or fuscous, the margin, a 
central round spot, a band near the base, and a spot near the end of 
the corium, white. 
Head — on the upper side red, a triangular spot at the base next each 
eye, and the apex of the face black. Antennce, eyes, and rostrum 
black. 
Fronotum flat, sides posteriorly rounded to and at the posterioi' angles, 
red, except the anterior third, which is at first black from side to 
side, the colour then narrower as the pronotum widens, posteriorly, 
in the middle, the red colour juts in so that the black comes down 
as two rounded lobes ; the anterior transverse sinuate line is 
glossy ; on the posterior margin of the pronotum is a black band 
(not extending to the posterior angles, which are red), and on this 
