COREIDJS. 117 



VERLUSIA QUADRATA, Spin. Hera. 147 (1837) ; Am. et Serv. Hem. 205, 



1 (1843). 



COREUS (VERLUSIA) QUADRATICS, Kolen. Mel. Ent. ii, 50, 8 (1845). 

 VERLUSIA RHOMBEA, Fieb. Europ. Hem. 229, 2 (1861) ; Stal, K. Vet. 

 Akad. Forh. 204, 1 (1862). 



Dull yellowish-brown; above entirely but very minutely black- 

 punctured and granulated. 



Head darker. Antenna; 1st joint fuscous or dull reddish, finely 

 punctate-granulate ; 2nd and 3rd yellowish-red ; 4th black, the tip 

 red. Eyes brown. Ocelli reddish. Rostrum ochreous, tip piceous. 



Thorax. Pronotum ; sides ochreous. Elytra ; Membrane brown, 

 shining. Wings pale brown, with darker nerves. Legs flavous; 

 thighs sometimes darker. 



Abdomen above orange ; the base black, and a row of black spots 

 down each side ; Connexivum concolorous with the elytra, with 

 small black spots on the margin. Underside pale ochreous ; the 

 connexivum and sides of the abdomen pale fuscous, the rest of the 

 abdomen with large, shallow, concolorous punctures. 



Length, 4r| 5| lines. 



Not rare. On various trees and shrubs, in the autumn. 



Genus 5. COREUS, Fab., Fieb. 

 Elliptic, narrow and angulated in front, granulated. 



Head with small distant tubercles, each bearing a hair ; Crown 

 quadrangular, very convex, rugose, the end widened at each side 

 into a very short, outwardly pointing lobe, within which the tubercle 

 of the antennae is hidden ; Face broad, quadrate, deflected ; the 

 central lobe narrow, bearing a row of several small tubercles ; side 

 lobes rounded in front. Antenna rather short and stout, granulated 

 and closely beset with short hairs, which are very thick at their 

 base ; 1st and 4th joints thickest ; the 1st and 3rd, in length, sub- 

 equal ; the 2nd and 4th a little shorter ; the 4th conical. Eyes 

 large, round, prominent, inserted below the middle of the sides of 

 the head. Ocelli large, prominent, rather nearer to each other than 

 to the eyes. Rostrum reaching beyond the 2nd pair of coxae, 2nd 

 joint longest; the channel sides produced, short, flat, rounded at 

 each end. 



