II4 LTemiptera-Heteroptera. 
elytra with a broad band across the middle, interrupted by the 
claval suture and the discal nerve, and the apical margin 
narrowly black ; membrane dusky, with a pale streak on 
each side along the margin of the corium ; legs red, apices 
of the femora narrowly black; segments of the thorax 
beneath pitchy. Head rugosely punctured ; antenniferous 
tubercles rounded and shining ; basal joint of the antenns 
elongate, as long as the second, second and third con- 
siderably widened at the apex, fourth about equalling the 
third in length ; pronotum not much widened behind, sides 
slightly sinuate, surface rugosely punctured ; disc more or 
less raised on each side, leaving a broad somewhat impressed 
dorsal line ; scutellum punctured, with an elevated line at 
the apex; elytra punctured in lines on the clavus, and with a 
line of punctures along the claval suture of the corium, disc 
with hardly visible punctures ; abdomen smooth and shining, 
with only very fine scattered punctures ; anterior femora 
much incrassated, with a row of fine spines towards the apex, 
with a larger one in their centre; those on the proximal 
side of the large one smaller than the others; thoracic 
segments beneath rugosely punctured. 
L. 33-4 mm. 
Southsea, May, 1870, one 3, Monereaf’; Bewdley Forest, 
in a sandy place, margin of Dowles Brook, July, 1879, 
Blatch. 
I have two Continental specimens of this species, in both 
of which the black band of the elytra is widely interrupted, 
and in one it is only faintly indicated, so that this character 
must be regarded as variable, 
DRYMUS, Fich. 
(partin=Lamproplua, D. § 8.) 
Short, oval, or oblong. Head with the eyes and ocelli 
touching or not quite touching the pronotum ; antenniferous 
tubercles large, rectangularly produced laterally ; rostrum 
