RHYPAROCHROMID^E. 203 



punctured ; posterior portion with strong, distant punctures ; side 

 margins and the callus piceous. Scutellum depressed in the centre ; 

 punctures distant, fine at the base, strong at the sides. Elytra; 

 Clavus piceous, with 4 rows of moderate punctures, the two middle 

 rows confluent; Corium piceous, outwardly paler, with moderate 

 punctures, finer on the posterior portion ; nerves strong and raised 

 at the base, the 1st and the anterior margin pale piceous ; Membrane 

 fuscous, with lighter shades, and a pale or yellowish spot at the 

 outer and inner basal angles ; nerves interruptedly pale. Sternum 

 with distant punctures ; posterior margin of the Metasternum rufous. 

 Legs yellow-brown ; lower portion of the thighs, inner side of the 

 tibice, and last joint of the tarsi, piceous j the tibia with fine, long 

 hairs. 



Abdomen beneath smooth, apex rufous. 



Length, 2f lines. 



Eare. Two specimens taken by Mr. E. C. Eye, of which the 

 locality is not recorded. 



Species 2. RHYPAROCHROMUS CHIRAGRA. 



LYGJSUS CHIRAGRA, Fab. E. S. iv, .168, 113 (1794) ; S. R. 223, 144 

 (1803) ; Fall. Hem. Suec. 58, 16 (1829) ; Zett. 

 Ins. Lap. 263, 10 (1840). 



PACHYMERUS CHIRAGRA, Schill. Beitr. i, 75, 16, t. 6, fig. 9 (1829) ; Hahn, 

 Wanz. i, 56, t. 9, fig. 34 (1831); Burm. 

 Handb. ii, 294, 2 (1835); H. Schf. Norn. Ent. 

 i, 45 (1835); Panz. P. G. 122, 8; Kolen. 

 Mel. Ent. ii, 82,15 (1845).' 

 TIBIALIS, Hakn, Wanz. i, 23, t. 4, fig. 14 (1831). 

 RHYPAROCHROMUS CHIRAGRA, Sahib. Geoc. Een. 63, 15 (1848). 

 PACHYMERUS (PACHYMERUS) CHIRAGRA, Flor, Rliyn. Liv. i, 254, 14 



(1860). 



MEGALONOTUS CHIRAGRA, Fieb. Europ. Hem. 182, 7 (1861) ; Stal, Yet. 

 Akad. Eorh. 216, 1 (1862). 



Black, dull, or slightly shining, clothed with long, appressed, yellow 

 hairs ; the sides with long projecting hairs. Pronotum long, 

 subquadrangular. Corium light brown, with a broad black band 

 on the posterior margin, in which are 2 distinct ochreous spots: 

 Thighs black ; tibice red-brown. 



Head finely punctured ; sides of the central lobe with strong, pro- 



