1808.] 239 



rows of strong punctures next the claval suture, and two others near 

 the anterior margin ; membrane hyaline, whitish at the base, nerves 

 brownish. Antennce, rostrum, and legs piceous. 



Head — Delicately punctured, but with deep, irregiilar punctures close to the an- 

 terior margin ; central lobe extending backwards nearly to the base of the 

 head, narrow, sides parallel. Antennae pale piceous, last joint darker, 3rd and 

 4th joints slightly clavate, 5th fusiform. Eyes triangular both above and be- 

 neath, piceous. Rostrum pale piceous. Under-side : the rostral channel ex- 

 tending the whole length of the head, the sides sharply raised. 



Tliorax — Pronotum slightly convex, narrowed a little, and gradually, to the front, 

 anterior angles rounded off to the eyes ; anterior margin deeply and squarely 

 cut out for the reception of the head, on the margin, behind each ocellus, a 

 deep fovea ; disc very finely punctured, except on a large smooth space on each 

 side of the middle anteriorly. Scutellum convex at the base, flatter posteriorly, 

 covered with very fine, but distinct, distant punctures. Elytra — Corium out- 

 wardly piceous, disc punctured like the scutellum, but with smaller punctures, 

 two sti-aight Knes of stronger punctures parallel to the claval suture, and two 

 others, larger and deeper, and black, near the anterior margin ; inembrane 

 hyahue, yellowish-white at the base, the colour spreading into a blotch beneath 

 the apex of the scutellum, nerves indistinctly fuscous. Legs piceous ; tarsi 

 pale. Length 2 lines. 



Several examples, of which only two or three were mature, were 

 taken under stones, on grassy, sandy slopes near the sea at Whitsand 

 Bay, near the Land's End, on August 20th, 1864, by Mr. J. C. Dale, 

 who has kindly communicated specimens and the information. 



Dr. Fieber has seen a specimen, and corroborates our conviction 

 that the species is new. He remarks that " it resembles Cydnus nigrita 

 in form, and Q. pimctulatus, Costa, in the slight convexity of the pro- 

 notum, but the membrane is differently marked." 



Section 5. — Lyq/eina. 



Family 1. — EnTPAKOCHEOMiDiE. 



Genus 3. — Calyptonotus, Doug, and Scott. 



Species 2*. — Calyptonotus lynceus. 



CiMEX LYNCEUS, Ml., Mautis. ii, 302, 134 (1787). 



LYOiEus „ Fab., E. S. iv, 1G6, 107 (1794) ; S. E. 231, 137 (1803) ; 



Fall, Hem. Suec. i, 52, 7 (1829). 

 Pachymeeus lynceus, ScJiill., Beitr. i, 66, 3,t. 5, iig. 7 (1829) ; Hahn, 

 Wanz. i, 44, t. 8, fig. 28 (1831) ; H. ScTif., Nom. Ent. i, 45 

 (1835) ; Panz., F. G. 118, 10. 

 , Pachymeeus (Pachymeeus) lynceus, J'ZorjEhyn. Liv. i, 273, 24 (1860). 



