92 LYG^ID^. 



Genus DRYMUS. 



Drymus, Fieber, Mir. Hem. pp. 46 & 178 (1861) ; StSl, Ofv. Vet.- 

 Ak. Forh. 1872, no. 7, p. 60 ; Saund. Hem. Het. Brit. Islds. 

 p. 114 (1892). 



Lampronotus, Bouf/l. c^ Scott, Ent. Month. Mag. iv, p. 243 (1868). 



Lamproplax (part.), Dougl. Sf Scott, torn. cit. p. 265. 



Drymocoris, Jakowl. Troudy Fnt. Ross, ix, p. 225 (1878). 



Type, D. pilipes, ITieb., a Palsearctic species. 



Distribution. Patearctic and Oriental Regions. 



Body broad, oval, or oblong ; head with the eyes touching or not 

 quite touching the pronotum ; rostrum reaching the inter- 

 mediate coxte ; antennae with the apical joint shorter than second ; 

 pronotum with the lateral margins slightly sinuate, narrowly 

 reflexed, basal margin moderately sinuate ; scutelluiu foveately 

 impressed ; membrane usually fully developed ; anterior femora 

 finely spined beneatli. 



830. Drymus bicolor, Dist. A. M. N. II. (7) viii, p. 508 (1901). 



Black ; corium ocbraceous, thickly brownly punctate, membrane 

 pale hyaline : head, pronotum and scu- 

 telkim coarsely punctate; pronotum strongly 

 sinuate at the apices of the transverse 

 impression, lateral margins of the anterior 

 lobe convex, posterior lateral angles 

 slightly nodulose and a little paler in 

 hue ; corium coarsely punctate, the lateral 

 margins levigate, the apical angles and a 

 suffusion near inner angle fuscous. 

 Length 3| millim. 



Hah. Sikhim ; Mungphu {Atkinson Coll., 

 Fig. 70.— Dr I/mm bicolor. Brit. Mus.). 



Genus SCOLOPOSTETHUS. 



Scolopostethus, Fieber (part.), Eur. Hem. pp. 49 &, 188 (1861) ; Stal, 

 Ofr. Vet.-Ak. Fork. 1872, no. 7, p. 60 ; Saund. Hem. Het. Brit. 

 Islds. p. 108 (1892) ; Horv. Rev. d'Ent. xi, p. 253 (1892). 



? Tritoniacera, Costa, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1841, p. 296. 



Type, S. cognatiis, Pieb., a Palsearctic species. 



Distrihution. Palsearctic, Oriental, Australasian, and Nearctic 

 Regions. 



Head with eyes not quite touching the pronotum, triangular, 

 anteriorly acuminate, first joint of antennae considerably passing 

 apex of head ; rostrum I'eaching the intermediate coxae ; pronotum 

 usually trapezoidal, but according to Saunders sometimes nearly 

 square, " this character varying with the development of the wings," 

 lateral margins sinuate, laminate ; anterior femora incrassate, with 

 a single long spine and a series of smaller ones between it and the 

 apex. 



