CORIZID.E. 135 



Species 4. CORIZUS PARUMPUNCTATUS. 



RHOPALUS PARUMPUNCTATUS, Schill. Beitr. 53, 4 (1829); Hahn, Wanz. 



iii, 4, t. 74, Eg. 229 (1835); Panz 

 F. G. 117, 10. 



CORIZUS Sign. Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 3. s. vii, 85, 13 



(1859); Jfefl.Europ. Hem. 236, 4 (1861); 

 Sfal, K. Yet. Akad. Forh. 209, 5 (1862). 



PRATENSIS, Fall. Hem. Suec. 42, 3, pars (1829). 



(CoRizus) PRATENSIS, Flor, Rhyn. Liv. i, 195, 4, pars (1860). 



Beddish or ochreous-brown, shining, very finely haired. 



Head with coarse, confluent punctures, a large spot on the iucras- 

 sation round the eyes, and a small spot at the base of the ocelli black. 

 Antennce reddish-yellow, 4th joint brown, the first 3 minutely dotted 

 with brown. Eyes brown, ocelli reddish. 



Thorax. Pronotum towards the front somewhat depressed, the 

 disk distinctly, widely, brown or black-punctured, and with a delicate 

 central line, the depression within the hinder angles, and generally 

 the anterior margin, black or brown. Scutellum reddish, with strong 

 confluent punctures, the lateral margins smooth, incrassated, the 

 apex obtusely pointed, leaving a hollow within, above which and at 

 each basal angle is a black spot ; generally, also, the entire base 

 is narrowly black. Elytra; Clavus and Corium yellowish, trans- 

 parent, except the . anterior margin of the latter, which is some- 

 times reddish ; nerves spotted with black ; Membrane yellowish, 

 transparent. Wings transparent. Sternum ochreous, fuscous or 

 reddish, at the sides with confluent punctures, the prolonged posterior 

 margin of the metasternum smooth, deeply sinuate. Legs ochreous 

 or reddish, dotted with black, more strongly on the 3rd pair ; tibice 

 yellowish, minutely dotted with black : tarsi yellowish, the end of 

 the joints and the claws black. 



Abdomen above black ; a large, somewhat oval, yellow spot, com- 

 mencing on the 3rd, extends across the 4th segment ; 5th segment 

 with 2 central spots on the anterior margin, and two small distant 

 spots on the posterior margin, ochreous ; 6th segment ochreous, 

 elongate, posteriorly with the sides parallel, the end truncate, down 

 the centre a strong black mark, and a narrow, pointed one on each 

 side. Conneotivum ochreous or reddish, the margin with small black 



