128 Mr. E. Saunders’ Synopsis of 
punctuation of the surface close, irregular and black. Scu- 
tellum with large remote punctures. Elytra very densely 
punctured, generally of a browner tint than the scutellum. 
Beneath ochreous, apex red. 
Length 7 lines. 
On birches in the autumn. 
PICROMERUS. 
1. didens, Linn. Fig. Dougl. & Scott, Brit. Hem. pl. ii. 
Lief 
Brown, apex of scutellum narrowly pale; connexivum 
obscurely spotted with red; legs and antenne orange-red ; 
beneath dull red, punctured with brown; surface deeply 
punctured ; scutellum transversely rugose; each posterior 
angle of the thorax produced into a sharp spine; sides 
anteriorly roughly denticulate. 
Length 54 lines. 
Not uncommon. 
TROPICORIS. 
l. rufipes, Linn. Fig. Dougl. & Scott, Brit. Hem. pl. iii. 
fig. 8. 
Beats Arona antenne and legs red, the apex of the 
former brown; beneath red, punctured with black; apex 
of scutellum red; connexivum with green metallic spots ; 
anterior angles of the thorax acute ; posterior angles much 
produced, rounded, with a short, sharp point posteriorly ; 
surface deeply and closely punctured with darker brown. 
Length 7 lines. 
Common on trees, &c. 
COREID 2%. 
I. Apical joint of antennz never much longer, gene- 
rally much shorter than third. 
A. Body not elongate, and linear. 
B. Head without processes or spines outside the 
antenna (i.¢. between them and the eyes). 
C. Head not spinous between the antennx ++ Gonocerus. 
CC. Head spinous between the antenne. 
a. Head with one spine oe oe -- Verlusia. 
b. Head with two spines .. .. -» Syromastes. 
BB. Head with processes or spines outside the 
antenne, as well as sometimes between them. 
C. Sides of thorax much raised and reflexed 
posteriorly .. ee ee ee -- Coreus. 
