198 LYGJEINA. 



Species 2. DRYMUS BRUNNEUS. 



R.HYPAROCHROMUS BRUNNEUS, Sahib. Geoc. Pen. 57, 6 (1848). 

 PACHYMERUS Bohem. Vet. Akad. Handl. 248 (1849). 



PALLIDULUS, H. Schf. Wanz. ix, 21] (1850). 

 DRYMUS NOTATUS, Fieb. Europ. Hera. 179, 3 (1861). 



BRUNNEUS, Stal. Yet. Akad. Porh. 217, 2 (3862). 



Oval, convex, black. Antennae piceous ; end of the last joint yel- 

 lowish-brown ; elytra piceous, with a central pale spot. 



Head black, finely punctured. Antennce piceous, with fine, long, 

 projecting hairs ; terminal half of the last joint yellowish-brown. 

 Eyes black, piceous or red. Ocelli black. Rostrum brownish- 

 yellow. 



Thorax. Pronotum broad, longer than wide, but little broader 

 behind than in front ; sides deeply contracted beyond the middle, 

 side margins piceous ; disk, first f rds black or piceous-black, finely 

 punctured ; last 3rd piceous, anteriorly sharply defined and de- 

 pressed, sometimes as a transverse band, with large, deep, angulated 

 punctures ; the callus narrow, smooth. Scutellum black, posteriorly 

 piceous, finely punctured. Elytra; Clavus pitchy-brown (often in 

 the middle and next the claval suture a pale streak), with 4 rows of 

 punctures, the 2 middle ones being confluent at the base ; Corium ; 

 anterior margin much rounded, at the base ochreous, but throughout 

 with a brown line on the edge ; disk pitchy-brown, very convex, 

 somewhat strongly and distantly punctured ; the lower 3rd of the 

 inner nerve fuscous-black (the colour spreading outwardly), with a 

 pale streak above it, often expanding outwardly into a pale ochreous 

 spot : Membrane fuscous-black ; round the sides crenate ; base 

 brown, outwardly yellowish, the colour expanding behind the ex- 

 terior angle into a large spot, and at the inner angle into a small 

 one ; nerves whitish, with an interrupted fuscous line down the 

 centre of each; within the anterior margin the ground colour is 

 darker, and being bounded by the 1st nerve, there appears to be a 

 black spot margined with white. Sternum black, finely punctured. 

 Legs ; thighs black, apex piceous, or entirely piceous ; tibiae almost 

 nude, piceous-brown ; tarsi paler. 



