194 LYG^EINA. 



hairs, and a few short spines beneath ; in the orange, rarely black 

 at the base and apex ; 2nd and 3rd pairs with fine yellowish hairs 

 and strong, projecting black spines ; tarsi black or piceons in 

 both sexes. 



Abdomen beneath, shining, delicately punctured, with fine yellow- 

 ish appressed hairs ; genital segments, with a few projecting black 

 hairs. 



Length, 1| 2{ lines. 



Common about London, under moss and leaves, nearly all through 

 the year ; Deal, May and August; Scarborough (T. Wilkinson). 



Genus 9. PIONOSOMUS, Fieb. 



Oval, rather flat ; outer margins of the head, pronotum and corium 

 fringed with stiff, projecting hairs. 



Head 5-sided, short, broader than long, convex ; Face ; side lobes 

 broad ; cheek-plates narrow, long, covering the base of the rostrum. 

 Antennae short, thin, finely haired ; 1st joint stout, clavate, not 

 reaching beyond the end of the face ; 2nd and 3rd slightly thickened 

 to the apex, the 2nd more than twice the length of the 1st, 3rd 

 nearly as long as the 2nd ; 4th fusiform, nearly as long as the 

 2nd, and slightly thicker. Eyes small. Rostrum reaching to the 

 end of the mesosternum ; 1st joint somewhat shorter than the head. 



Thorax. Pronotum slightly trapeziform, in front wider than the 

 head across the eyes ; anterior margin deeply concave ; sides nearly 

 straight, the lateral margins narrow, on the 1st frds horizontal, 

 continued strongly round the anterior angles, posteriorly almost 

 evanescent ; posterior margin concave ; disk, rather more than the 

 first frds convex, the posterior margin of the convexity rounded 

 the rest of the disk flatter. Scutellum large, equilaterally triangular. 

 Elytra flattish ; Membrane with 4 nerves. Sternum ; Mesosternum 

 flat, the middle with a sharp keel, and on each side of it posteriorly, 

 extending to the obscure xyphus, a sharp ledge; Metasternum 

 rhomboidal, with an arched, sharp, middle keel. Legs ; ihiglis 1st 

 pair stout, unarmed ; tibiae; 1st pair with 3 small spines beneath; 

 tarsi; 1st joint on the 1st and 2nd pairs as long as the 2nd and 3rd 

 together, on the 3rd pair somewhat longer. 



