156 BERYTINA. 



obtuse, with a small notch between them, the outer sides very slightly 

 concave. 



Length, 3 3| lines. 



Eare ; Darenth Wood, May 30th, under leaves ; Folkestone, Sept. 

 1st, under Ononis arvensis. 



Species 5. BERYTUS CRASSIPES. 



BERYTUS CKASSIPES, H. Schf. Norn. Ent. i 43 (1835) ; Fieb. Beitr. i, 351, 

 32, t. 2, fig. 28 (1836); Costa, Cent. 127, t. 3, 

 fig. 5 (1852?); Fieb. Wieii. Ent. Monats. iii, 

 206, 6 (1859) ; Europ. Hem. 211, 6 (1861). 



Ochreous. Frontal process ; above incrassated, from the side semi- 

 circular. Antenna ; 1st joint, club stout, abrupt, black ; 2nd 

 black on the upper \ ; 3rd at the apex and 4th entirely black. 

 Elytra together rhomb oidal ; Corium at the apex black ; Mem- 

 Irane broader than the corium, posteriorly obtuse-lanceolate, at 

 the base a large oval spot, and short, cuneiform, internerval lines 

 on the posterior margin, black. Legs proportionally short and 

 stout; thighs gradually clavate, the club black, piceous at^the end. 



Head brown-ochreous, very finely punctured ; Frontal process 

 short ; above, incrassated, convex ; viewed sideways semicircular, and 

 joined to the face at the base ; side processes strong, convex, whitish 

 above, widened at the upper end and deflected ; in a line with their 

 base, but separate, the ocelli appear as two short, whitish nodules. 

 Antenna brown-ochreous, the club of the 1st joint abrupt, thick, 

 black ; the base of the 2nd ochreous, the rest black; the end of the 

 3rd black ; 4th not so thick as the club of the 1st, black. Eyes 

 dark-brown. Underside brown-ochreous, very finely punctured. 

 Rostrum piceous. 



Thorax. Pronotwn behind the middle depressed across the disk, 

 including the side keels, but not the centre one, which is even 

 throughout ; hinder angles widened and rounded, the keels thereon 

 shallower; the disk finely punctured, much and convexly raised 

 within the hinder angles ; posterior margin concave ; all the keels 

 white, with a very fine brown streak on the top. Elytra broad, to- 

 gether almost rhomboidal ; Clavus and Corium ochreous, shining, 

 somewhat finely punctate between the nerves ; the apex of the corium 

 black ; Membrane posteriorly obtuse-lanceolate, ochreous, diaphanous ; 



