204 LYG.EINA. 



minent hairs. Antennae black, the extreme base of all the joints 

 yellowish ; 1st joint red at the apex ; 2nd, except the apex, red, the 

 base sometimes black ; 3rd sometimes red on the lower half; all the 

 joints with long, projecting, black hairs, except on the red part of the 

 2nd, where they are red. Eyes and Ocelli black. Rostrum piceous. 



Thorax. Pronotum long, sub quadrangular, slightly contracted 

 beyond the middle; with long, distant punctures, except on the first 

 3rd of the disk, where they are fine. Scutellum with large, deep 

 punctures, which, on the sides, are somewhat in rows, finer on the 

 middle. Elytra ; Clavus pale brown, with 3 rows of deep black 

 punctures ; Corium pale brown, with black punctures in rows, deep 

 at the base, gradually finer posteriorly ; next the posterior margin 

 a broad, inwardly indented black band, in which are 2 distinct 

 ochreous spots ; often the band stretches up alongside the clavus, 

 and forms a stellate blotch ; posterior margin black, except at the 

 apex, which is ochreous ; Membrane (generally abbreviated) fuscous, 

 with a whitish spot at the outer and inner basal angles ; nerves ob- 

 scurely whitish. Sternum punctured, and with fine whitish pubes- 

 cence ; the punctures on the Prosternum large and deep, on the 

 Meso- and Metasternum finer and crenate. Legs with long projecting 

 hairs; thighs black, base and apex red; tibice red, apex generally 

 piceous (sometimes the 2nd and 3rd pairs entirely piceous), with 

 strong, distant, black spines ; the 1st pair spined on the underside 

 only ; tarsi red, last joint piceous, or entirely piceous. 



Abdomen, beneath with longish, appressed, yellow pubescence. 



Length, If 2| lines. 



Varies greatly in size and in the marking of the corium. 



A common species under leaves rnd at the roots of grass, in dry 

 and sandy places, throughout the year. 



Species 3. RHYPAROCHROMUS DILATATUS. 



PACHYMERUS DILATATUS, H. Schf. Wanz. vi, 33, 1. 192, fi>. 591 (1842). 



OBSCURUS, Muls. An. Soc. Lin. 97 (1852). 

 MEGALONOTUS DILATATUS, Fieb. Europ. Hem. 182, 6 (1861). 



Black, slightly shining, broad, thickly clothed, above and beneath, 

 with longish, appressed, yellow hairs. Pronotum short, campa- 

 nulate. Anterior margin of the corium and the claval suture 



