256 flemiptera-fleteroplera. 
large and projecting considerably beyond the lateral mar- 
gins of the pronotum ; basal joint of antenne short, second 
longer than the third and fourth together, these latter sub- 
equal ; rostrum thick, reaching to beyond the posterior 
coxee, central lobe of the face black ; pronotum very largely 
and deeply punctured, darker in front, especially in the 2, 
base rounded ; scutellum largely punctured ; elytra more 
finely punctured than the pronotum, sides subparallel in 
the $, shghtly rounded in the ?, apex of the cuneus 
darker in the ¢; membrane dusky; legs with the femora 
spotted at the apex, the spots often connected so as to form 
two apical rings, spines of the tibia very short and incon- 
spicuous. 
L. 44 mm. 
Conifers ; Weybridge, Chobham, Woking, Bromley ; 
Hurst Green, Bexhill, Barnet, Ewhurst, Shalford, Mickle- 
ham, Lowestoft, Corton, Fritton, Somerleyton, Butler ; 
Norfolk, Edwards ; Morayshire, Norman ; Oxshott, Plum- 
stead, St. Fagan’s, South Wales, Billups; Glanvilles 
Wootton, Dale ; Esher, Champion. 
PECILOSCYTUS, Fied. 
(Systratiotus, D. § S.  Charagochilus, Fieb.) 
May be known from all the other genera in which the 
pronotal collar is raised and callose by its vestiture of scale- 
like, deciduous, golden pubescence; the rostrum is short, 
only reaching to the intermediate coxe, and the posterior 
femora are incrassated. 
We have three British species of the ten recorded by 
Puton in his Catalogue. 
(4) 1. Elytra not black and yellow. 
(3) 2. Femora pale at the apex andringed . . GYLLENHALIT. 
(2) 3. Femora entirely black . . ; ‘ . NIGRITUS. 
(1) 4. Elytra black and yellow . ‘ : - UNIFASCIATUS, 
P. Gyllenhalii, Ma//.—Brown-black, clothed with small 
irregular patches of golden squamose pubescence, very con- 
