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blunt upright spine; elytra rarely developed in this 
country, reaching only to about the apex of the second 
abdominal segment, narrow, with a short membranous 
apex; in developed specimens the corium is long and 
narrow, the membrane large, its nerves enclosing three 
cells, of which the apical one is the longest ; con- 
nexivum much reflexed, its sides rounded; abdomen 
beneath very convex; all the femora with a slhght annular 
swelling near the apex; tarsi three-jointed; one genital 
segment visible in the ¢, two in the ?. 
C. sub-apterus, De G.—Greyish black, head, pronotum, 
and legs clothed with long erect hairs. Head with a pale 
line down the centre behind the eyes, and a pale line along 
their inner margins; antenne slightly piceous, second 
joint with long erect hairs, fifth joint longer in the $ than in 
the ¢; between the second and third, and third and fourth, 
and fourth and fifth joints are short supplementary ones, 
so that counting these the antenne would be eight-jointed ; 
pronotum with the anterior margin straight, its angles 
right angles, disc raised behind it and rounded, then trans- 
versely impressed, and again slightly raised to the base ; 
sides deeply sinuate; posterior angles largely rounded ; 
base sinuate, disc posteriorly with three longitudinal de- 
pressions ; scutellum with the spine often more or less pale ; 
elytra as described above ; connexivum with a pale band on 
each segment ; legs with paler rings. 
L. 10-11 mm. 
Heathy places, Woking, Deal; Addington Hills, Wey- 
bridge, Douglas and Scott; Sandwich, Pegwell Bay, 
Freshwater Bay Pembrokeshire, Milford, Murshall; New 
Forest, Blatch; Bournemouth, Fowler; Deal, Battle, 
Camber, Shalford, Ewhurst, Butler; Land's End, Dale ; 
Norfolk, Edwards. Has a distinct scent when alive, which 
Messrs. Douglas and Scott compare to that of “ripe 
pears.” 
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