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vex, short oval, eyes large, antenne testaceous, dusky 
towards the apex; pronotum short, very much raised and 
very convex posteriorly, deeply punctured, base rounded, 
its extreme margin narrowly pale; scutellum convex, 
transversely rugose ; elytra punctured, in fresh examples 
closely irrorated with small patches of silvery-gold pubes- 
cence, cuneus red-brown, paler at the base and apex, de- 
flected, together with the entire apical margin of the corium, 
almost at right angles to the rest of the elytra; membrane 
dark brown, nervures pale. Mr. Douglas (Ent. Mo. Mag. 
xvii. 164) recordsa ¢ in which the entire elytra are horizon- 
tal, and the membrane enlarged both in length and breadth ; 
femora brown, pale at the apex, the pale colour traversed 
by a brown ring; tibiae ochreous, sometimes brown at the 
base ; orifice of the odoriferous sac large, surrounded by a 
wide, foliaceous pale margin. 
L. 3} mm. 
On Urtica and Galium ; generally common. 
P, nigritus, /al/.—Black, slightly convex, clothed with 
golden deciduous pubescence. Antenne rarely with the 
centres of the second and third joints paler, third and fourth 
joints together longer than the second ; pronotum rugosely 
punctured, considerably raised posteriorly, but much less 
so than in Gyllenhalii; scutellum transversely rugose and 
punctured ; elytra closely punctured, apex of the corium 
just above the cuneus and the cuneus itself pale ochreous, 
the latter with a black spot just above the apex ; membrane 
brown, cells and their nervures yellow, with a brown central 
patch; femora black, tibise black, or pale with the base, 
apex, and a ring above the middle, black, tarsi black, 
sometimes pale at the base ; beneath black, orifice of the 
odoriferous sac small, transverse, with a pale foliaceous 
margin posteriorly. 
L. 44-5 mm. 
On Galium, Stachys sylvatica, ete. Local, but ap- 
parently not rare where it occurs. Mickleham, on Stachys, 
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