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piceous ; the junction of all the joints of the antennae and tarsi 

 yellowish. 



Head finely punctured. Antennce with long projecting hairs. Eyes 

 and Ocelli black. Rostrum piceous. 



Thorax. Pronotum short, campanulate, widened posteriorly; 

 anterior portion somewhat finely, not closely, punctured ; posterior 

 portion with large, long, deep punctures. Scutellum; base in the 

 middle flattened and finely punctured, the rest with large, deep, 

 distant punctures. Elytra ; Clavus with 3 rows of deep punctures ; 

 apex rufo-piceous ; nerve and claval suture pale piceous ; Corium ; 

 anterior margin piceous, disk with large punctures at the base and 

 along the claval suture ; on the centre and posteriorly fine punctures ; 

 nerves at the base pale brown-yellow ; Membrane fuscous, the 

 middle of the base black ; interior basal angle fulvous ; exterior basal 

 angle with a white spot, one on the 2nd nerve beyond the base, and 

 a larger one on the 3rd nerve (which, however, is often entirely white, 

 with a large whitish spot at or near its extremity) ; 4th nerve white 

 from the base for nearly ^ its length. Sternum with large, round, 

 distant punctures. Legs; thighs with fine, appressed, yellowish 

 hairs ; fulcra and apex yellowish ; tibice with longish, subprominent, 

 yellowish hairs ; 2nd and 3rd pairs with fine, distant black spines on 

 the inner side ; tarsi black, with strong rufous hairs beneath. 



Abdomen beneath delicately punctured ; the hairs lie perceptibly 

 parallel to each other. 



Length, 2-| 3 lines. 



Common tinder moss and among debris at Weybridge, in August 

 and September ; Addington Hills, August ; Stoneham, Hants, May. 



Species 4. RHYPAROCHROMUS PR^ETEXTATUS. 



PACHYMERUS PILETEXTATUS, H. Schf. Norn. Ent. i, 45 (1835); Wanz. iv, 



12, 1. 113, fig. 357 (1839). 



RHYPAROCHROMUS MACULIPENNIS, Curt. B. E. xiii, pi. 612 (1836). 

 PACHYMERUS FEMORALIS, Bohem. Vet. Akad. Handl. 249 (1849). 

 MEGALONOTUS PR^ETEXTATUS, Fieb. Europ. Hem. 181, 3 (1861) ; Stal. 



Vet. Akad. Forh. 217, 3 (1862). 



Black, shining, narrow, sides subparallel. Anterior |- of the 1st 

 and 2nd joints of the antennae yellow. Pronotum long, sub- 



