COREID.E. 119 



COREUS HIRTICORNIS et PiLicoRNis, Burm. Handb. ii, 309, 1 & 2 (1835) ; 



Flor, Rhyn. Liv. i, 176, 177, 1 

 & 2 (1860); Fieb. Europ. Hem. 

 221, 4 & 5 (1861). 



AFFINIS, H. Schf. Wanz. iv, 97, t. 141, fig. 441 (1839). 

 ?MEROCORIS SERRATUS, Costa, Atti, 371 (1847). 

 DASYCORIS DENTICULATUS, Dall. Cat. Hem. 519, 1 (1852) ; Stein. Berl. 



Eat. Zeits. iv, 248, 3 (1860). 

 ? COREUS WOLFFII, Gorski, Anal. 148, 96 (1852). 



Above dull, dark cinnamon or chocolate-brown, very rugose, and beset 

 with short stiff hairs ; beneath ochreous. 



Head. Antenna ; the 1st 3 joints red-brown ; the 4th black, 

 with the tip red. Eyes and Ocelli dark brown. Rostrum dark brown ; 

 the produced sides of the rostral channel ochreous. 



Thorax. Pronotum ; lateral margins narrowly whitish, the spines 

 also whitish, the spine at the hinder angle longer ; the spines on 

 the posterior margin brown, the one on each side of the scutellum 

 the longest and whitish. Scutellum; the spines on the sides con- 

 colorous or whitish. Elytra ; Corium with black, rugose, granular 

 points, in longitudinal rows ; Membrane slightly shining, ochreous, 

 the nerves brown, with pale intervals. Sternum ; on each side of 

 the rostral channel, on the mesosternwn, a large black spot. Legs ; 

 thighs rugose, chocolate-brown, mottled, especially beneath, with 

 ochreous ; the 2nd pair beneath with 1 short spine ; the 3rd pair 

 darkest, on the underside with several out-curving spines, of which 

 two are much longer than the rest. The 1st long spine is near the 

 tibia, but before it are 4 small ones, the 1st being the shortest, and 

 the 4th only half the length of the long spine ; the 2nd long spine 

 is not so long as the 1st, and is at some distance from it ; sometimes 

 there is a very small tooth between them. Further back, at the 

 same distance as between the two long spines, a 3rd and 4th shorter 

 spine are sometimes placed, but one or other is more frequently 

 absent : the two long spines have the base broadly, and the apex 

 narrowly, black, the intermediate portion whitish. TiUce ochreous or 

 reddish, with fine, short, black hairs ; tarsi ochreous or piceous. 



Abdomen above orange-red, the 1st and 2nd segments entirely, 

 and the 3rd at the sides, black. Gonnexivum ochreous or reddish- 

 brown. Underside ochreous, with a central and two lateral brown 

 lines. 



Length, 4 lines. 



