Lygeide. 1) Ge: 
wise ; prosternum less strongly punctured at the sides than 
in the other species, femora with a black ring at the apex. 
L. 33-4 mm. 
Common and generally distributed on heaths. 
NOTOCHILDS, Fried. 
Closely allied to Scolopostethus, but readily recognized 
by the shape of the head, the eyes being remote from the 
pronotum, and tbe head narrowed behind them into a short 
neck; surface deeply punctured; pronotum with a deep 
central impression; lateral margins narrowly reflexed ; 
scutellum with a distinct basal impression ; front femora 
strongly toothed, 
N. contractus, H. S.—Black, a small pale spot on each 
side of the pronotum ; corium and clavus dull ochreous, 
the apical two-thirds of the former brown, with a smail pale 
spot outwardly ; membrane greyish-brown, pale at the base, 
the nervures darker. Head closely and deeply punctured ; 
antenne: with the first joint extending for more than half 
its length beyond the apex of the face ; pronotum twice as 
wide at the base as at the anterior margin ; sides sinuate, 
narrowly pale and reflexed, the reflexed portion wider behind 
the middle ; dise with a wide central longitudinal impression ; 
scutellum deeply punctured, impressed rather deeply at the 
base ; elytra punctured on the corium and clavus ; abdomen 
black ; legs dark brown ; anterior femora incrassated, with 
a row of many teeth beneath, including two much stronger 
and longer than the rest. 
L. 24-4 mm. 
Generally distributed and common by sweeping among 
nettles, in rubbish, moss, ete. 
N. limbatus, Fieb. (crassicornis, D. § 8S.) —Ferruginous; 
head and front of pronotum fuscous, extreme base and hind 
angles of latter also dark; antennz basal joint red, the 
rest black, except the base of the second and apex of fourth; 
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