178 LYG^INA. 



spots in the middle ; lateral margins ochreous, with a brown line on 

 the edge ; where they are widened inwardly a long-sided triangle is 

 formed. Scutellum with. fine distant punctures, closer and deeper 

 on the sides. Elytra ; Clavus yellow-brown, with 4 rows of brown 

 punctures ; Corium yellow-brown or red-brown, with brown punc- 

 tures in rows ; a central spot black ; the lower part of the inner 

 nerve fuscous. Sometimes the base of the clavus and corium paler, 

 or only a broad pale dash on the corium ; sometimes the lower end of 

 the clavus, and the corium, from the inner margin as far as the 

 central spot, and also beneath it, are included in one black patch, 

 and one or two black spots are within the posterior margin ; anterior 

 margin ochreous, with a brown line on the edge ; posterior margin 

 red-brown, hindwardly piceous. Membrane black, posteriorly fuscous ; 

 a large semi-oval white spot at the exterior basal angle ; a yellowish 

 spot at the inner basal angle, and a white, less clearly denned, spot 

 at the inner posterior angle ; nerves whitish posteriorly. Sternum ; 

 Pro- and Metasternum posteriorly, and a spot at the base of the 

 coxa reddish-brown. Legs ; fulcra reddish-brown ; tliiglis black, 

 apex reddish-brown ; tibia ; 1st pair reddish-brown on the basal 

 3rd, the rest piceous, or altogether piceous ; 2nd and 3rd pairs yellow- 

 brown, the end, sometimes the lower half, piceous ; tarsi reddish - 

 brown ; 2nd and 3rd joints piceous ; sometimes all the joints, espe- 

 cially of the 1st pair, piceous. 



Abdomen black ; Connexivwn reddish-brown, the base black. Un- 

 derside with fine golden pubescence, the last segments with a few 

 long, projecting, yellow hairs. 



Length, $ 3, ? 3| lines. 



Scarce. Taken singly, from June to September, by beating juniper 

 bushes, at Sanderstead Downs and Headley Lane. 



Dr. Power captured, in April, 1864, at Littlington, Cambridge- 

 shire, under dead leaves at the bottom of a hedge, about 30 speci- 

 mens, which are all of one type, and, we thought, distinct from our 

 usual form of E. erraticus ; but Dr. Fieber, to whom an example of 

 each kind was sent, pronounces them not to be specifically different. 

 Dr. Power's examples differ from the specimens taken at Sanderstead 

 in the following particulars : The insects are shorter, and the form 

 is oval ; the Pronotum is shorter, narrower in front, and posteriorly 

 is red-brown. The Elytra have the Corium and Clavus rich choco- 

 late-brown, more or less mottled with ochreous punctures and lines, 



