196 LYG^lINA. 



Genus 10. DRYMUS, Fieb. 

 Oval or elliptic. 



Head 5-sided, short, pointed ; base narrower than the front of the 

 pronotum : Face ; central lobe prominent ; side lobes as long as the 

 central lobe, compressed, pointed. Antennae ; 1st joint not thick, 

 i its length reaching beyond the end of the face ; 2nd twice as 

 long as the 1st, gradually clavate ; 3rd f ths as long as the 2nd, 

 thick-fusiform ; 4th not longer than the 3rd, fusiform. Eyes small, 

 semi-globose. Ocelli small, distant. Rostrum reaching to the 2nd 

 pair of coxae, 2nd joint longest. 



Thorax. Pronotum campanulate, narrower in front thanposteriorly, 

 but close behind the anterior margin wider than the width of the 

 head across the eyes ; anterior angles rounded ; sides concave or 

 constricted in the middle ; side margins narrow, reflexed ; posterior 

 margin slightly concave ; disk convex in front, flatter behind, gene- 

 rally across the middle a depression, within the hinder angles raised 

 into a callus. Scutellum triangular, with a wide, deep, transverse 

 hollow in the centre. Elytra; Corium outwardly and posteriorly 

 convex, inwardly depressed, at the base rather wider than the pro- 

 notum ; anterior margin rounded ; posterior margin straight ; nerves 

 on the basal half prominent ; Membrane with 4 nerves, the two inner 

 curved at the base, at first inwardly and then outwardly. Sternum ; 

 Mesosternum transversely convex in front, with a pointed keel ; 

 xyphus narrow ; Metasternum small, rhomboidal, with a sharp keel. 

 Legs : thighs ; 1st pair not much thickened, fusiform ; on the under- 

 side a channel, on the anterior edge of which is 1 small tooth ; 

 tibite, 1st pair in the < , at the end somewhat bent, widened inter- 

 nally, with a channel on the side ; tarsi ; 1st joint on the 3rd pair 

 much longer than on the 1st and 2nd. 



Species 1. DRYMUS SYLVATICUS. 



SYLVATICUS, fab. E. S. iv, 163, 98 (1794); S. R. 229, 126 

 (1803); Fall. Mon. Cim. 67,10(1807); Hem. 

 Suec. 59, 17 (1829). 



