Coreide. 51 
Champion; Chobham, by sweeping, Billups ; Camber 
Sandhills, Collett. : 
COREUS, Fab. 
The species of this genus are very closely allied and 
difficult to determine, but we have only one in this country, 
and the generic characters are so well defined that there is 
little chance of confusing it with any other British species. 
The entire insect above is more or less hairy, all the joints 
of the antenne are thick and bristly and of nearly equal 
width, the sides of the pronotum are armed with a row of 
long pale spines, and the posterior femora have a group 
of spines near the apex. The species are found by sweep- 
ing, &e. 
C. denticulatus, Scop.—Reddish brown, hairy and 
punctured. Head rugose, antenniferous tubercles produced, 
but blunt; joints of the antennez rugose and hairy, the 
hairs bristly and erect, basal joint very slightly thicker 
than the rest, apical joint elongate ovate, black; pronotum 
with the sides very slightly sinuate, armed with a row of 
white spines, posterior angles acute, spinose, base produced, 
its short lateral margin between the posterior angle and 
the base of the elytra spined like the sides of the pronotum 
in front of the angles, basal margin with a spine on each 
side of the scutellum; dise flat, ragosely punctured, gradu- 
ally raised posteriorly, and with a transverse carina situated 
just within the basal margin; scutellum flat, punctured, 
slightly raised ; elytra rugosely punctured, and with a few 
slightly darker spots on the raised nerves; membrane 
slightly smoky, nerves with longitudinal dark markings ; 
connexivum slightly reflexed, rest of the abdomen above 
red, base and a small elongated narrow apical spot black, 
beneath ochreous red; legs brown, mottled, posterior 
femora with a group of spines near the apex, of which the 
basal one is the longest, and with a single spine nearer the 
base. 
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