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LOPUS, Huhn. 
A genus of black or black-brown species, with red and 
yellow markings. Head viewed from above very transverse, 
with very prominent eyes, nearly their entire width pro- 
jecting beyond the lateral margins of the pronotum, face 
subvertical, antennze with the basal joint hardly thicker 
than the second, rostrum reaching to about the posterior 
cox; prenotum trapezoidal, with a distinct collar in front, 
sides sharp, base slightly rounded; scutellum convex ; 
elytra nearly parallel-sided, longer than the abdomen in 
the d, generally shorter than it in the $; posterior tarsi 
with the basal joint not longer than the second, third joint 
the longest. We have three British species of the eleven 
recorded as Palearctic. 
(4) 1. Legs without pale rings. 
(3) 2. Sides of the pronotum straight, its disc 
black : : : 5 : + GOTHICUS, 
(2) 3. Sides of the pronotum sinuate, its disc 
with a central pale line . . + SULCATUS. 
(1) 4. Posterior femora and all the tibie with 
apalering . ; oes . FLAVOMARGINATUS. 
L. gothicus, Linn. (var. superciliosus, D. & S.).— 
Black, clothed with erect black hairs, inner orbits of the 
eyes pale, antennz black clothed with erect hairs, third 
and fourth joints subequal, basal joint about as long as the 
anterior margin of the pronotum; pronotum with the 
anterior margin rather more than half as long as the base, 
sides sharp, straight, more or less red, the red colour 
varying considerably in extent; scutellum black, red 
towards the apex; elytra coriaceous, punctured, lateral 
margins pale, cuneus orange red, with its inner apical 
margin black, membrane black ; legs black, clothed with 
erect hairs, tibia sometimes piceous ; beneath black, sides 
of the pronotum, a spot near each coxa, and a line on each 
side of the abdomen, yellow. 
Var. superciliosus, D. § S., differs in having the pro- 
notuin and cuneus entirely black. 
