RHYPAROCHROMID^. 189 



very short, appressed, golden hairs, finely punctured, black ; on the 

 centre, and broadly round the hinder angles, a white gloss or tinge ; 

 posterior \ ochreous, with numerous round black punctures, which 

 in the middle and at the hinder angles form spots ; the callus 

 ochreous. Scutellum black, finely punctured, the centre with a fine 

 depressed line, on either side of which, at the base, a whitish spot ; 

 apex ochreous, smooth. Elytra; Glavus ochreous, with contiguous 

 black punctures in 3 rows, posteriorly confluent, and forming lines ; 

 the base and a streak on the inner side of the apex black ; the side 

 next the scutellum with a pale streak ; Coriim deep ochreous ; an- 

 terior margin clear, unpunctured, with a brown line on the edge ; 

 posterior margin yellow-brown, with a row of brown dots ; disk 

 punctured in rows, which posteriorly become confluent, and sur- 

 round 2 long, angulated spaces, whose base is towards and near the 

 posterior margin ; the upper portion of these angles is black, the 

 lower and lesser portion whitish ; apex of the corium (within the 

 margin) black ; Membrane fuscous-black, with a large, clear, white 

 spot at the outer and inner basal angles and on the apex ; nerves 

 whitish. Sternum black, with a white gloss, and fine, distinct, 

 round puuctures. Legs black, a spot at the base of the COXSB, the 

 fulcra and apex of the thighs, red-brown ; tibia ; 1st pair red-brown ; 

 apex and base on the upper side black. 



Abdomen black; beneath delicately punctured, clothed with fine 

 silvery pubescence. 



Length, 2 2J lines. 



In dry and sandy places, under leaves, &c. Darenth Wood, April ; 

 Bexley, November; Brighthampton ($. Stone)] Southend (Wol- 

 laston) . 



Species 2. PERITRECHUS NUBILUS. 



LYGJEUS NUBILUS, Fall. Hem. Suec. i, 54, 10 (1829) ; Zett. Ins. Lap. 



263, 8 (1840). 

 PACHYMEEUS NUBILUS, Panz. F. G. 121, 5 ; Schill. Beitr. 68, 7, t. 7, 



fig. 2 (1829); H. Schf. Norn. Ent. i, 45 



(1835). 



GENICULATUS, Hahn, Wanz. i, 68, 1. 10, fig. 41 (1831). 

 RHYPAEOCHROMUS IRRORATUS, Curt. B. E. xiii, 612, 22 (1836). 

 BEOSUS NUBILUS, Sahib. Geoc. Fen. 65, 1 (1845). 

 PACHYMEEUS (PACHYMEEUS) NUBILUS, Flor, Rhyn. Liv. i, 246, 9 (1860). 

 PERITEECHUS NUBILUS, Fieb. Europ. Hera. 184, 2 (1861) ; Sfal, Vet. 



Akad. Forh. 218, 2 (1862). 



