214 LYGJEINA. 



broadly and depressed on to the base of the clavus. Scutellum large, 

 triangular, convex ; basal angles depressed. Elytra at the base rather 

 narrower than the base of the pronotum, then widened and rounded ; 

 Clavus broad ; Corium ; disk posteriorly convex ; posterior margin 

 nearly straight, incrassated ; Membrane with a deep furrow along 

 the base, and 4 strong nerves; 1st short, curved, ending on the 

 anterior margin ; 2nd nearly straight ; 3rd arising near the inner 

 basal angle, strongly curved towards the inner margin and then from 

 it ; 4th arising on the inner margin, short and curved ; the last 3 end 

 on the posterior margin. Sternum; Mesosternum with a slight 

 central keel; xyphus short; Metasternmn small, depressed in the 

 centre. Legs strong ; thighs ; 1st pair very thick, fusiform ; beneath 

 with a wide, shallow channel, on the edges of which, at and before 

 the middle, are several short, scarcely perceptible elevations ; 2nd 

 and 3rd pairs not thickened in the centre, contracted a Mttle at the 

 apex ; tibiae a little widened at the apex ; tarsi ; 1st joint on the 1st 

 and 2nd pairs as long as the 2nd and 3rd together ; on the 3rd pair 

 much longer. 



Abdomen above flat, beneath convex; Connexivum wide, vertical 

 or recurved over the abdomen. 



Species 1. STYGNOCORIS RUSTICTJS. 



LYG^IUS RUSTICUS, Fall. Mon. Cim. 70, 17 (1807) ; Hem. Suec. 64, 25 

 (1829) ; Zett. F. Ins. Lap. i, 470, 3 (1852) ; Ins. 

 Lap-. 262, 4 (1840). 



PACHYMERUS RUSTICTJS, Schill. Beitr. i, 81, 26, t. 7, fig. 5 (1829) ; Hahn, 

 Wanz. i, 223, t. 36, fig. 116 (1831) ; Kolen. 

 Mel. Ent. ii, 83, 53 (1845). 



AFHANUS H. Schf. Norn. Ent. i, 46 (1835). 



BEOSUS Sahib. Geoc. Pen. 67, 3 (1848). 



PACHYMERUS (PACHYMERUS) RTTSTICUS, Flor, Rhyn* Liv. i, 241, 6 



(1861). 



STYGNUS RUSTICUS, Fieb. Europ. Hem. 186, 1 (1861). 

 OPHTHALMICUS RUSTICUS, Stal, Vet. Akad. Fork. 214, 2 (1862). 



Black above and beneath ( except the abdomen ) ; coarsely and 

 deeply punctured; clothed with fine, yellow, somewhat appressed 

 hairs. 



Head. Antennae ; 1st joint piceous, rarely black ; 2nd and 3rd 



