COREID^E. 115 



and black, fine punctures. Legs flavoua ; tibia at the ends, and the 

 tarsi red-brown. 



Length, 6 6 lines. 



Not common. Box Hill, Surrey, on box trees, in May. 



Genus 4. VERLTJSIA, Spin. 



Narrow and angulated in front, broader behind, and angulated at 

 the sides of the abdomen. 



Head. Crown long, quadrangular, horizontal, slightly convex, 

 with a fine depressed line down the centre, the end produced at each 

 side into a short lobe ; Face narrow ; central lobe inserted between 

 the terminal lobes of the crown, raised, projecting forwards and 

 downwards, so that, viewed from above, it appears as a deflected 

 spine ; on its upper surface are 2 small tubercles ; side lobes small, 

 compressed, retracted under the crown. Antenna; tubercle very 

 small, flat, inserted at the end of the terminal lobes of the crown ; 

 1st joint stout, long, trigonal, curving outwards ; base truncate, 

 attached to the tubercle by a short, stout petiole produced from its 

 outer side only ; 2nd and 3rd joints cylindrical, each longer and 

 more slender than the 1st, the 3rd longer than the 2nd; 4th joint 

 fusiform, shorter than but as broad as the 1st. Eyes moderate, pro- 

 minent, inserted below the middle of the sides of the head. Ocelli 

 small, nearer to each other than to the eyes. Rostrum slender, 

 reaching beyond the 2nd pair of coxae, the 1st 2 joints longest, 

 subequal ; rostral channel short, the sides produced, rounded be- 

 hind. 



Thorax. Pronotum hexangular (almost 8-sided) ; anterior margin 

 a little wider than the head, concave, the angles slightly produced ; 

 sides widely divergent, slightly concave ; hinder angles pointed, 

 slightly raised and expanded ; hinder sides long, at first shortly 

 produced and angulated ; posterior margin, across the scutellum, 

 straight ; disk flat, in front depressed, close to the posterior margin, 

 with a slight transverse ridge. Scutellum horizontal, flat, short, 

 triangular. Elytra as long as the abdomen ; Olavus deflected 

 towards the corium ; Corium raised in the centre, anterior margin 

 slightly reflexed, posterior margin sinuate ; Membrane filled with 

 anastomosing nerves, which, except 3 or 4 at the inner basal angle, 

 arise from a cross nerve, leaving between it and the posterior margin 



