ASOPID^E. 95 



edge of the 6th segment ; Connexivum, above black, with narrow, 

 orange interruptions ; beneath yellow with black spots. 



Length, 5 \ lines. 



Not common. August and September, on trees in damp places. 



Genus 5. PICROMERUS, Am. et Serv. 



Head flattened, quadrangular; Face; scarcely widened before 

 the eyes ; apex straight, without a notch, outwardly rounded ; central 

 lobe as long as the side lobes, not pointed. Antennae long, fine, 

 compressed, inserted on short tubercles before the eyes ; 1st joint 

 very short ; 2nd long; 3rd, 4th and 5th in length subequal, each scarcely 

 so long as the 2nd. Eyes large, prominent. Ocelli small, distant. 

 Rostrum stout, reaching beyond the 3rd pair of coxsa ; basal joint very 

 broad ; rostral channel very short and shallow. 



Thorax. Pronotum broader than long, hexagonal, in front as wide 

 as the head and eyes ; anterior margin concave ; anterior angles much 

 produced and cut off obliquely, externally produced into a small 

 tooth ; sides, in front finely serrate, very sinuate, widely divergent, 

 forming a broad, acute, projecting and upcurving spine ; hinder sides 

 long, sinuate ; posterior margin longer than the scutellum is wide, 

 straight across the scutellum, but beyond a little produced posteriorly 

 and depressed upon the clavus ; posterior angles acute ; disk for- 

 wardly deflected at the same angle as the head, posteriorly on a level 

 with the base of the scutellum. Scutellum % as long as the abdomen, 

 triangular; base convex; sides sinuate; apex narrow, rounded. Elytra : 

 Corium ; anterior margin rounded, posterior margin straight ; Mem- 

 brane with 8 or 9 long nerves. Sternum with a side channel extending 

 obliquely across the pro- and mesosternum; Mesosternum with a 

 slight keel, anteriorly widened. Legs finely haired, anterior thighs 

 and tibicB beneath, beyond the middle, with a small spine ; all the 

 tibice outwardly flat, the margin reflexed and forming a narrow, 

 linear channel; tarsi hairy beneath, 1st joint as long as the 2nd 

 and 3rd together. 



Abdomen semi-elliptic, convex beneath, in the centre of the 2nd 

 segment a short, obtuse process, pointing forwards ; Connexivum 

 broad, recurved, extending beyond the elytra. 



