176 LYG^EINA. 



base and apex; tarsi piceous, the 1st joint more or less yellow- 

 brown. 



Abdomen beneath with yellowish pubescence, the posterior seg- 

 ments with long, projecting, red hairs. 



Length, 2| lines. 



Scarce. " On rotten trunks of trees " (Flor) ; " often gregarious, 

 in the spring, under the bark of JEsculus " (horse-chestnut) (Fieb). 

 Under decaying leaves, in May, Lee ; Purley Downs, near Croydon. 



Genus 4. EREMOCORIS, Fieb. 

 Long, elliptic ; flat above, sides almost parallel. 



Head 5-sided, narrow, convex; Face; central lobe prominent; 

 side lobes shorter than the central lobe, suddenly deflected out- 

 wardly. Antennae long, slender ; 1st joint long, f rds of its length 

 reaching beyond the end of the face, not thickened, slightly clavate ; 

 2nd and 3rd scarcely thickened at the apex ; 2nd 1-J- times longer 

 than the 1st ; 3rd nearly as long as the 2nd ; 4th not so long as the 

 3rd, cylindrical, the ends pointed. Eyes moderate, somewhat 

 remote from the pronotum. Ocelli large, distant. Rostrum reach- 

 ing to the end of the metasternum ; longer in the $ . 



Thorax. Pronotum trapeziform, almost quadrangular; anterior 

 margin much longer than the width of the head across the eyes, 

 concave, depressed, with a very narrow, raised rim ; anterior angles 

 rounded; sides nearly straight, their margin narrow, reflexed, 

 widened inwardly beyond the middle ; posterior margin concave, the 

 ends produced over the clavus ; disk, 1st f rds very convex, the last 

 3rd flattened, depressed in the centre ; within the hinder angles a 

 long, strong, narrow callus. Scutellum large, triangular, the centre 

 much depressed. Elytra as long as the abdomen, at the base a 

 little wider than the base of the pronotum ; Clavus slightly deflected 

 to the corium; claval suture depressed; Corium; sides nearly straight, 

 posteriorly rounded; the anterior margin reflexed, wide at the 

 base, and gradually narrower ; the 1st nerve incrassated on the basal 

 half; Membrane; anterior and posterior margins rounded; disk 

 with 5 nerves ; the 1st short, close and parallel to the anterior 

 margin (often wanting) ; the 2nd curved to the anterior margin ; the 

 3rd nearly straight ; the 4th and 5th arising close together at the 

 inner angle, curving inwardly and outwardly ; the 4th going straight, 



