192 LYG^EINA. 



Head with appressed yellowish pile. Antenna slender, black, with 

 -short prominent hairs ; 1st joint red at base and apex ; 3rd narrowly 

 red at base, and a broad red ring in the middle ; 4th red at base. 

 JEyes black. Ocelli red. Rostrum black, the junction of the joints 

 red. 



Thorax. Pronottm finely punctured, anteriorly with fine, ap- 

 pressed hairs ; anterior margin in the middle, side margins and 

 posterior margin lutescent; disk dingy black, gradually on the 

 posterior 3rd mixed with lutescent, and with larger punctures ; 

 within the hinder angles a short, yellow streak. Scutellum black, 

 finely punctured; posteriorly with a long, narrow lutescent spot 

 towards each side. Elytra lutescent ; Clavus with 5 rows of round, 

 contiguous, black punctures, the 2nd and 3rd internal rows irregular 

 and confluent ; Corium, with black punctures disposed somewhat 

 in rows, leaving some clear spaces, but often confluent and forming 

 black patches ; anterior margin clear, unpunctured ; apex black ; 

 Membrane smoky brown, at the base clear white (except a round, 

 black dot close to the corium), the white colour spread out at the 

 external angle into a small blotch, and at the internal angle into a 

 large one ; just below the base, in the middle, between the nerves, 

 three angulated black streaks ; nerves yellowish. Legs finely haired ; 

 thiglis black, red at base and apex ; tibice red, slightly blackened 

 at the apex ; the spines on the 2nd and 3rd pairs few and slender ; 

 tarsi reddish, the last joint black. 



Underside black, with fine whitish pubescence. 



Length, 2i lines. 



A single specimen, taken in the summer of 1861, at Ventnor, Isle 

 of "Wight, by Mr. G-. Lewis. 



Species 2. TRAPEZONOTUS AGRESTIS. 



PACHYMEBUS SYLVATICUS, Paw. F. G. 93, 16 (non Fab.}. 



LYG^EUS AGRESTIS, Fall. Hem. Suec. 55, 12 (1829); Zett. Ins. Lap. 



263, 9 (1840). 



PACHYMEEUS AGEESJIS, Schill. Beitr. 70, 9, t. 6, fig. 6 (1829) ; Hahn, 

 Wanz. i, 25, t. 4, fig. ]5 (1831) ; H. Schf. Norn. 

 Ent. i, 45 (1835). 



RHYPAEOCHBOMUS AGEESTIS, Sahib. Geoc. Fen. 56, 4 (1845). 

 PACHYMEEUS (PACHYMEEUS) AGEESTIS, Flor, Hhyn. Liv. i, 265, 20 



(1860). 



TBAPEZONOTUS AGEESTIS, Fieb. Europ. Hem. 191, 3 (1861) ; Stal, Vet. 

 Akad. Forh. 220, 2 (1862). 



