132 COREINA. 



RHOPHALUS CRASSICORNIS, Schill. Beitr. i, 50. 1, t. 6, fig. 2 (1829) ; Hahn, 

 Wanz. iii, 2, fig. 227 (1835); Sahib. Geoc. 

 Fen. 45, 1 (1848) ; Fieb. Europ. Hera. 234, 3 

 (1861). 



COEIZUS JiAGNicoRNis, Burm. Handb. ii, 306, 3 (1835). 



CORIZTJS (CoEizus) CEASSICORNIS, Flor, Rhyn. Liv. i, 190, 1 (1860). 



Fuscous brown or black, strongly punctured. 



Head with coarse, confluent punctures, posteriorly with a smooth 

 black ring, the frontal processes very short and deflected, the 

 tubercles of the antennae just visible within. Antenna rather strong, 

 ochreous, obscured by black punctures, which form a line on the 

 upper side of the first 3 joints, 4th joint black. Eyes and ocelli 

 ochreous-brown. 



Thorax. Pronotum thickly black-punctured on a scarcely per- 

 ceptible ochreous ground, the sides slightly sinuate, the lateral and 

 posterior margins, the transverse ridge and the central line, ochreous. 

 Scutellum black, with strong confluent punctures, the margin slightly 

 incrassated, constricted before the apex, which is obtuse and concave ; 

 the extreme end, a spot on the lateral margin near the base, and 

 sometimes one in the centre, red. Elytra; Clavm and Corium 

 whitish, transparent, except the anterior margin of the latter, which is 

 ochreous and opaque ; nerves reddish, with large, long black spots ; 

 Membrane and nerves whitish, transparent. Wings, transparent. 

 Sternum finely punctured, ochreous, the sides brown ; the prolonga- 

 tion of the metasternum short, sinuate, outwardly rounded. Legs 

 ochreous, closely spotted with black, the 3rd pair of tJiighs black 

 above ; tarsi ochreous, the end of the joints broadly black. 



Abdomen above black ; 4th segment posteriorly, angularly cut out 

 in the middle, across which a red spot extends joining a smaller red 

 spot on the 3rd and 5th segments ; the 5th segment has also two 

 other red spots on the anterior margin, its posterior margin is 

 entirely red ; the 6th segment black, with 4 red or reddish spots, 

 whereof two are anterior and oval, two posterior and subquadrate ; 

 Connexivum black, with orange spots. Underside ochreous, brown- 

 punctured, generally with 4 longitudinal darker lines, and the sides 

 brown. 



Length, 3J 4 lines. 



Bare. Parley Heath and near Milton, Dorset (Dale). 



