RHYPAROCHROMID^E. 215 



pale piceous, apex still paler ; 4th black, base pale piceous, apex some- 

 times piceous. Eyes piceous. Ocelli black. Rostrum pale piceous. 



Thorax. Pronotum; sides slightly concave in the middle. Elytra ; 

 Corium on the anterior margin, sometimes the Clavus inwardly, and 

 usually all the nerves, piceous brown ; Membrane usually rudimen- 

 tary and not covering the abdomen, whitish, the base black (when 

 developed it is, according to Elor, " gray-brown or blackish, its base 

 and the nerves yellowish-white ; or it is on the greater portion clear, 

 with indistinct gray shades between the nerves"). Legs piceous; 

 tarsi paler, last joint piceous. 



Abdomen above very delicately punctured; 1st 2 segments 

 reddish; Connexivum on its inner side, on the 1st 3 segments, 

 red. Underside delicately crenate-punctate. 



Length, $ 2 lines, ? 2 lines. 



Not rare, but local. Lee, August ; Beckenham, September ; West 

 Cowes, Isle of Wight, September, plentiful on Pulicaria dysenterica. 



Species 2. STYGNOCORIS SABULOSUS. 



LYGJEUS PEDESTRIS, Fall. Mon. Cim. 71, 18 (1807) ; Hem. Suec. 64, 26 



(1829); Zett. Ins. Lap. 263, 5 (1840), nonP**. 



PACHYMERUS SABULOSUS, Schill. Beitr. 81, 25 (1829) ; Hahn, Wanz. i, 



224, t. 36, fig. 117 (1831). 

 APHANUS Norn. Ent. i, 46 (1835). 



KHYPAROCHROMUS PUBESCENS, Curt. B. E. xiii, 612, 24 (1336). 



SABULOSUS, Sahib. Geoc. Fen. 58, 7 (1848). 

 PACHYMERUS (PACHYMERUS) SABULOSUS, Flor, Rhyn. Liv. i, 243, 7 



(1860). 



STYGNUS SABULOSUS, Fieb. Europ. Hem. 187, 2 (1861). 

 OPHTHALMICUS SABULOSUS, Sial, Vet. Mad. Eorh. 215, 4 (1862). 



Black (except the pronotum posteriorly and the elytra), shining; 

 coarsely and deeply punctured, except on the abdomen ; clothed 

 with fine yellow hairs, longer above than beneath. Gorium 

 yellow-brown, posteriorly piceous. 



Head. The punctures finer than on the pronotum. Antenna ; 

 1st 3 joints brownish-yellow ; 4th pitchy-black. Eyes and Ocelli 

 piceous. Rostrum yellow-brown. 



Thorax. Pronotum; sides a little rounded ; disk anteriorly black 

 or piceous, posteriorly, including the hinder angles, more or less 



