RHYPAROCHROMID^l. 209 



Black, shining ; posterior portion of the pronotum, the clavus, and 

 corium, dull ochreous ; legs black. 



Head convex, finely punctured, with a few long, erect, black hairs 

 on the orbit of the eyes and the sides of the central lobe. Antennce 

 black, with fine, short, subappressed hairs ; base of each joint 

 narrowly red; sometimes the middle of the 2nd broadly rufous. 

 Eyes small, a little removed from the pronotum. Rostrum piceous. 



Thorax. Pronotum, finely, distantly punctured, finest on the disk, 

 which is also finely crenate in front ; anterior portion very convex, 

 and its junction with the posterior 4th sharply defined ; last 4th 

 (except at the sides) more or less clearly ochreous, with black 

 round punctures. Scutellum finely punctured ; apex ochreous. 

 Elytra ; Clavus and Corium flat, pale dull ochreous ; Corium more 

 or less clouded posteriorly, and ordinarily with 2 undefined, brown or 

 piceous spots, one on the first 3rd near the claval suture, the other 

 posterior on the anterior margin ; anterior margin narrowly reflexed, 

 mostly clear, with a brown line on the edge ; both Clavus and Corium 

 with distinct rows of round black punctures, larger than on the pro- 

 notum ; Membrane appears only as a whitish border to the corium. 

 Sternum finely punctured, more strongly on the anterior portion of 

 the Prosternum ; Metasternum finely crenate, posterior margin ru- 

 fous. Legs with fine yellowish hairs ; coxae, fulcra, and base and end 

 of the thighs, rufous ; tibiae black or piceous ; base rufous ; beneath 

 with fine spines in a row ; tarsi black or piceous. 



Abdomen beyond the corium uncovered, finely punctured ; un- 

 derside finely punctured, and clothed with short, straight, yellowish 

 pubescence, and on the posterior margin of the last abdominal seg- 

 ment 2 or 3 projecting black hairs. 



Length, 1J- line. 



Local. In moss among heath, from April to October. Coombe 

 "Wood, Surrey ; Addington Hills ; Plumstead Common ; "Weybridge ; 

 Tunbridge Wells ; Heron Court, Hants (Curtis). 



Species 2. HYPNOPHILUS HEMIPTERUS. 



PACHYMERUS HEMIPTERTJS, Schill. Beitr. 77, 20, t. 6, fig. 11 (1829). 



STAPHYLINIFORMIS, Hahn, Wanz. i, 61, t, 9, fig. 37 (1831). 

 PALLIDIPENNIS, H. Schf. Wanz. ix, 210 (1850). 

 ANGUSTTJLUS, Sohm. Vet. Akad. Forh. 56, 10 (1852). 



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