RHYPAROCHROMID^E. 185 



Abdomen above, base and sides yellowish ; Gonnexivum piceous on 

 the edge ; underside with fine whitish pubescence, fulvous at the 

 apex. 



Length, If 1J line. 



Common in hedges, under leaves, and at the roots of grass in dry 

 places, from April to September. 



Note. As a rule, the membrane of the elytra, and the wings are 

 only rudimentary ; in such cases the pronotum is subquadrangular, 

 being but little widened posteriorly, and the scutellum is small. 



Species 3. SCOLOPOSTETHUS AFFINIS. 



PACHYMERUS AITINIS, Schill. Beitr. 80, 25 (1829). 



DECORATUS, Hahn, Wanz. i, 139, t. 22. fig. 71 (1831). 

 (PACHYMERUS) PODAGRICUS, p. Flor^ Rhyn. Liv. i, 277, 26 



(1860). 



SCOLOPOSTETHUS AITINIS, Fieb. Europ. Hem. 189, 6(1861); Stal. Vet. 

 Akad. Fork. 219, 1, var a (1862). 



Black. Antennas black, the basal \ or \ of the 2nd joint fulvous 

 (sometimes also the base and apex of the 1st) ; posterior 

 portion of the pronotum rufous, the side margins with a white 

 spot ; corium dusky ochreous, on each elytron with 2 black 

 spots, forming, with 2 on the clavua a transverse, slightly 

 curved row, below which are 2 whitish blotches on each corium, 

 the inner one angulated; posterior margin broadly black. 

 Thighs ; 1st pair black, 2nd and 3rd pairs fulvous or yellow, 

 with a broad black ring before the apex. 



Narrower, more parallel and of a darker hue than S. ad- 

 junctus ; also distinguished by the dark 1st and 2nd joints of 

 the antennae, the spots on the corium smaller and more indis- 

 tinct, and the dark rings on the 2nd and 3rd pairs of thighs. 



Head finely punctured. Antenna finely pubescent, the extreme 

 base (sometimes also the apex) of the 1st joint, and the basal 4th or 

 i of the 2nd, fulvous. Eyes piceous or brown. Ocelli black. Ros- 

 trum piceous, the 1st joint darker. 



Thorax. Pronotum wider in front than the head across the 

 eyes ; anterior margin usually narrowly fulvous ; anterior angles 

 rounded ; lateral margins yellowish, with a brown line on the edge, 

 at the wide part broadly white ; disk, rather more than the anterior 



