216 LYG^lINA. 



brown. Scutellum depressed in the centre. Elytra; Clavus and 

 Corium yellow-brown ; the latter, inwardly and posteriorly with a 

 long blackish line, outwardly and posteriorly with a large piceoua 

 spot intersected by the 1st nerve ; or the posterior half is entirely 

 piceous, with clearer, long spots ; Membrane more or less fuscous, 

 base and nerves broadly white. Sternum ; Legs yellow-brown ; tarsi ; 

 last joint piceous. 



Abdomen above delicately crenate-punctate ; base and sides red. 

 Underside delicately crenate-punctate. 



Length, 1 \\ line. 



Not rare in dry and sandy places, under heath and grasses. 

 Addington Hills, Surrey, August; Southend, Dartford Brent, and 

 Weybridge, September. 



Species 3. STYGNOCOKIS ARENARIUS. 



PACHYMERUS ARENARIUS, Hahn, Wanz. i, 43, t. 7, fig. 27 (1831). 

 KHYPAROCHROMUS OBTUSTJS, Curt. B. E. xiii, 612, 23 (1836). 



ARENARIUS, Sahib. Geoc. Fen. 59, 8 (1848). 

 STYGNUS ARENARIUS, Fieb. Europ. Hem. 187, 3 (1861). 

 OPHTHALMICUS ARENARIUS, Stal t Vet. Akad. Forh. 215, 3 (1862). 



Black (except the elytra), clothed with short yellow hairs ; strongly 

 and deeply punctured. Corium brown, with ochreous spots. 



Head. Antennas; 1st and 4th joints piceous; 2nd and 3rd red- 

 brown ; 2nd sometimes more or less piceous. Eyes and Ocelli black. 

 Hostrum yellow-brown. 



Thorax. Pronotum hindwardly piceous, hinder angles brown. 

 Elytra ; Clavus and Corium brown, the latter hindwardly, a line 

 on the posterior half of the inner margin near the claval suture, and 

 the posterior margin, except at the inner angle, piceous ; disk also with 

 several ochreous, long spots, of which 3 in a line down the centre are 

 more conspicuous ; Membrane fuscous-brown ; a long, narrow, 

 piceous blotch joined to the middle of the posterior margin of the 

 corium ; the rest of the base white, expanding into a large spot at 

 the inner angle ; nerves broadly white. Legs ; Coxae yellow-brown ; 

 thighs black, apex yellow-brown ; tibiae yellow- brown or piceous, apex 

 lighter ; tarsi yellow-brown, last joint (sometimes also the 2nd and 

 3rd) piceous. 



