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Read dull, finely punctured ; apex of the central lobe of the Face 

 rufous. Antennae long, slender, finely pubescent, yellow-brown; 3rd 

 and 4th joints sometimes brownish. Eyes and Ocelli brown. Eos- 

 strum yellowish, 1st joint piceous. 



Thorax. Pronotum dull, scarcely wider across the anterior angles 

 than the head across the eyes ; anterior margin narrowly rufous ; 

 anterior angles rounded ; sides divergent to the hinder angles, side 

 margins whitish, with a brown line on the edge, at the widened part 

 clear white ; hinder angles with a black spot ; disk in front finely 

 punctured ; posterior portion ochreous, with distinct brown punctures, 

 a whitish longitudinal middle line and an indistinct brownish spot on 

 each side of it. Scutellwm finely punctured, apex sometimes rufous. 

 Elytra; Clavus^ale ochreous, with 4 rows of brown punctures and a 

 posterior brown or piceous spot; Corium slightly shining, pale 

 ochreous, posteriorly broadly black or piceous ; on each elytron 2 

 black or brown spots, the inner one narrower and nearer to the 

 base than the outer one, the 4 forming with the 2 on the clavus 

 an irregular transverse row ; between the spots and the posterior 

 band the grouud colour is clearer and lighter ; punctures brown ; 

 Membrane shining, whitish ; nerves brown, except the base of the 2 

 outer ones. Sternum finely punctured ; an orange spot at the base 

 of each coxa ; Prosternum ; anterior, lateral, and posterior margins 

 orange ; Metasternum ; posterior margin broadly orange ; Legs 

 yellow; thighs; 1st pair with a long black spot on each side; 2nd 

 pair sometimes indistinctly brownish before the apex ; 3rd pair with 

 a narrow black ring before the apex ; tarsi ; 3rd joint brownish 

 towards the apex. 



Abdomen beneath, shining, with a fine whitish pubescence. 



Length, 2 lines. 



Eare. One specimen near London ; one, Littlington, Cambridge- 

 shire, in February (Dr. Power) ; and one at Glanvilles Wootton, 

 Dorset, in July (Dale). 



Species 2. SCOLOPOSTETHUS ADJUNCTUS. 



PACHYMERTJS DECORATUS, Aband. b & c, Hahn, Wanz. i, 139 (1831). 



(PACHYMERTJS) PODAGBICUS, p. Flor, Rhyn. Liv. i, 277, 26 



(1860). 

 SCOLOPOSTETHUS AFFINIS, var. b, Stal, Vet. Akad. Forh. 220, 1 (1862). 



Black. Antenna stout, 1st and 2nd joints orange. Pronotum wider 



