186 LYG^SINA. 



half black, very delicately punctured; posterior portion fulvous, 

 with distinct brown punctures ; a central, thin, pale line, 2 large 

 spots on the posterior margin (sometimes wanting), and the callus at 

 each hinder angle, black. Scutellum black, finely punctured. Elytra ; 

 Clavus dusky whitish or ochreous, the punctures and a posterior spot 

 brown ; Corium dusky whitish or ochreous ; two rows of punctures 

 next the claval suture and a row outside the 1st nerve brown, 

 the rest of the disk without punctures, except a few fine ones 

 towards the posterior margin ; on the middle of each elytron two 

 narrow black spots, one of them between the anterior margin and 

 the 1st nerve, the other between the 1st and 2nd nerves, form- 

 ing, with the posterior spots on the clavus, a slightly curved 

 transverse row ; posterior margin with a broad black band, the space 

 bet weenit and the transverse row of spots appearing as 2 clear whitish 

 blotches, the inner one angulated : Membrane dusky whitish ; base 

 in the middle with a black blotch ; anterior and posterior margins 

 and the nerves more or less black or fuscous. Sternum finely punc- 

 tured ; a spot at the base of each coxa yellow ; Prosternum ; an- 

 terior, lateral and posterior margins fulvous, or the lateral margins 

 with a pale spot; Meso- and Metasternum at the sides ochreous, ]\Ieta- 

 sternum on the posterior margin fulvous. Legs ; fulcra piceous ; 

 thighs ; 1st pair black, base and apex fulvous or yellow ; 2nd and 3rd 

 pairs fulvous or yellow, with a broad black ring beyond the middle ; 

 tibiae fulvous or yellowish, 1st pair piceous at the apex ; tarsi yel- 

 lowish, the last joint piceous. 



Abdomen with fine whitish pubescence ; the centre of the genital 

 segments in the $ , generally fulvous. 



Length 1J - 1| line. 



Note. Sometimes the membrane of the elytra is but rudimentary ; 

 then the pronotum is narrower and almost quadrangular, being 

 scarcely widened posteriorly. 



Very common, especially under heath, nearly all the year 

 through. 



Species 4. SCOLOPOSTETHUS CONTRACTUS. 



PACHYMERUS CONTRACTUS, H. Schf. Nom. Ent. i, 45 (1835) ; Wanz. iv, 



97, t. 140, fig. 440 (1839). 

 SCOLOPOSTETHUS Fieb. Europ. Hem. 188, 1 (1861). 



Dull, black; clavus, base of the corium, and a posterior outward 

 spot on the latter, dull ochreous. 



