334 Flemiptera-fleteroptera. 
shorter and consequently with only about fourteen pale 
lines ; the palee of the front legs in the male shorter, more 
rounded on their upper margin, and consequently less 
parallel-sided, those of the female shorter and more curved. 
L. 9-10 mm. 
Not so common as the preceding, but generally dis- 
tributed, although not recorded from Ireland. 
(Suna. CORIXA, Geojjr.) 
C. lugubris, Fieb. (Stali, Feb.) —Black brown, shining, 
frontal impression of male short, not extending upwards 
between the eyes; pronotum and clavus very superficially 
rastrate (i.e. striated like a file), corium punctured ; pro- 
notum with seven pale transverse lines, its angles obtuse ; 
elytra with the markings at the base of the clavus broader 
and in more regular lines, towards the apex narrower and 
fragmentary, markings of corium transverse, short and 
somewhat arranged in longitudinal series, a line at the 
inner angle of the corium, and a longitudinal line parallel 
to it, black; palee of front legs in the male very wide at 
the base, pointed at the apex, apex of intermediate tarsi 
black. 
L. 6-63 mm. 
Common and generally distributed, often in brackish 
water. 
C. hieroglyphica, Duf—Frontal impression of the 
& very deep, extending upwards between the eyes in a well- 
defined arch ; pale greenish or yellowish white ; pronotum 
with 7-8 narrow black transverse lines, finely rastrate ; 
clavus rastrate, pale at the extreme base, otherwise 
traversed by short irregular black lines, corium not 
rastrate, punctured, with short, transverse fragmentary 
dark markings arranged in three or four series; legs 
entirely pale, pales of ¢ straight on the anterior edge, 
regularly curved on the posterior. 
L. 53-63 mm. 
