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Rhtparochuomus ltncetjs, Fieh., Europ. Hem. 194, 6 (1861) ; Stal, 

 Ofv. K. Vet. Akad. Hand!., 221, 3 (1862). 



Elliptic, black, dull ; sides of pronotum flat, broadly pale ochreous 

 throughout ; elytra ochreous, closely punctured with black ; cormm at 

 the inner posterior angle with a large sub-rhomboidal black spot, with a 

 small white spot attached posteriorly. 



Head — Unpunctured, clotlaed with extremely fine, appressed, yellowish hairs. 

 Antenn(B comparatively short and slender, finely pubescent, 1st joint with two 

 or three strong, projecting hairs, the base of the 1st joint and the junction of 

 the 1st and 2nd, and 2nd and 3rd, narrowly yellowish. Rostrum black. 

 Thorax — Pronotum broad, very slightly convex, with almost imperceptible yellowish 

 pubescence ; sides nearly straight, but rounded off anteriorly, flat, foliaceous, 

 broadly clear pale ochreous throughout ; disc, on the 1st two-thirds black, 

 unpunctured, the last third ochreous, with large, confluent black punctures 

 which extend to the posterior angles in a streak. Scutellum depressed, black, 

 with distant, very small, yellow hairs, the sides posteriorly with a long ochreous 

 line. Elytra ochreous : clatnis with three rows of large, black punctures, 

 mostly confluent and forming lines ; corium similarly punctured, the nerves 

 clear, but margined with a narrow black line ; anterior margin mostly clear ; 

 in the inner posterior angle a large, sub-rhomboidal, black spot, to which out- 

 wardly and posteriorly is attached a clear white triangular spot margined 

 outwardly with a black line ; the inner posterior angle of the black spot has on 

 it a very small white line, and on the upper-side of the spot a whitish spot juts 

 into the black: memhraiie fuscous, with a sub-lunate white spot under the 

 apex of the corium ; nerves dark, on the basal half whitish, on the two outer 

 ones clearer and diaphanous ; on the posterior margin, between the nerves, 

 large, triangular, whitish, diaphanous spots. Sternum — at the base of each 

 coxa a yellowish spot. Legs black ; the junction of the thighs and tibiae nar- 

 rowly rufous ; thighs, beneath, with one stout, short, sharp spine ; tihicB, 1st 

 pair straight, rufous, on the 1st two-thirds beneath with fine sijinoso hairs ; 

 2nd and 3rd pairs with fine projecting spines ; tarsi, hairs and claws brown. 

 Abdomen — Beneath, with delicate black pubescence. Length 3 — 3^ lines. 



A single $ taken at the base of the palings, under fir trees, at 

 Dartford Heath, 5th May, 1867 (Scott) ; one in the Isle of Wight 

 {Pascoe) ; and several of both sexes, hybernating in tufts of grass and 

 rushes in an old sand-pit at Shirley, near Croydon, in November last 

 (Bouff. ^ Scott). 



Differs from C. Pini in being shorter, more oval, broader in pro- 

 portion to the length, in the shorter antennae, in the broadly yellowish 

 sides of the pronotum, in the angular white spot attached to the black 

 spot on the corium, and in the lighter colour of the membrane. 



Although G. lynceus is stated to have been originally described by 

 Fabricius from an English specimen, yet, as we had seen no authentic | 



