130 COREINA. 



THERAPHA HYOSCIAMI, Am. et Serv. Hem. 245, 2 (1843). 



CORIZUS (THERAPHA) HYOSCYAMI, fflor, Rhyn. Liv. i, 196, 5 (I860). 



THERAPHA HYOSCYAMI, Fieb. Europ. Hem. 232 (1861). 



Scarlet, with black spots above and beneath, slightly shining. 



Head scarlet, bordered narrowly all round with black, but broader 

 behind the eyes and about the ocelli. Antenna black. Eyes pitchy- 

 black. Ocelli red. Underside red, the centre of the head and the 

 sides of the rostral channel black. Rostrum black. 



Thorax. Pronotum scarlet, the anterior margin and depression, 

 and a large bilobed patch at the base, black. Scutellum ; the base 

 broadly black, the rest scarlet. Elytra ; Clavus black ; Corium 

 scarlet, two small spots near the Clavus, and a large, rounded, poste- 

 rior one, touching the anterior margin only, black ; Membrane light 

 smoky-brown, the basal angles black. Wings light smoky-brown. 

 Sternum scarlet, the centre and two round spots on each side black, 

 the base of the lateral metasternal process also black. Legs ; thiglis 

 black, the upper edge (except, sometimes, on the 1st pair) with a 

 narrow ochreous line ; tibia black, beneath with a narrow ochreous 

 line ; tarsi black. 



Abdomen above scarlet, the 1st and 6th segments entirely, and a 

 large, transverse, quadrangular patch on the anterior portion of the 

 2nd segment, black ; Connexivum scarlet. Underside scarlet, with a 

 lateral row of round spots and a central row of larger oval spots, 

 black, the spot on the last segment being the largest, and confluent 

 with the side spots on the same segment ; Genital segments in the $ , 

 with the visible portion black. 



Length 4 5 lines. 



"Charmouth, Teignmouth, Dawlish "Warren and Eavenglass, 

 May 20th to July 1st, on thistles and restharrow; Yentnor, 1st 

 August, on Ononis; Sandhills, Braunton Burrows, beginning of 

 September " (Curtis, 1. c.) ; Tenby, Portland, <fec., August and 

 September (Dale). 



Genus 2. CORIZUS, Fall. 



Head. Crown deflected, broad, subquadrate, incrassated round, 

 and especially behind, the eyes, posteriorly constricted; in front 

 produced at the sides into a short, blunt, deflected process, within 

 which the 'tubercle of the antennae is concealed; Face vertical, 



