224 LYGAiTNA. 



Species 2. PHYGADICUS ARTEMISIA. 



HETEROGASTER ARTEMISIA, Schill. Beitr. 88, t. 8, fig. 3 (1829). 



CORONILL^E, Kolen. Mel. Ent. ii, 88, 59, t. 9, fig*. 17 



(1845). 

 PHYGADICUS ARTEMISLE, Fieb. Europ. Hem. 202, 3 (1861). 



Black, slightly shining, densely clothed with appressed yellowish 

 hairs, longer above than beneath ; pronotum with a posterior 

 transverse band ; clavus and corium yellowish-brown ; thighs at 

 the end and the tibia reddish-yellow ; the latter with the base 

 and a ring before the apex black. 



Head rather roughly punctured; Face long, the sides very 

 concave. Antennce black, end of the 1st joint narrowly, middle of 

 the 2nd broadly, red ; 3rd and 4th red at the base. Eyes brown. 

 Ocelli black. Rostrum yellowish ; the base of the joints 

 darker. 



Thorax. Pronotum with strong, deep, distinct punctures; a 

 broad, irregularly defined, and obscured yellowish-brown band within, 

 but not touching the posterior margin ; the callus at the hinder 

 angles black inwardly, yellowish outwardly. Scutellum strongly 

 punctured, apex yellowish. Elytra ; Clavus with 3 straight rows of 

 brown punctures ; Corium with somewhat smaller, distant, brown 

 punctures ; a short streak near the clavus, the posterior margin, and 

 2 long streaks running into it, piceous-black ; Membrane dusky 

 whitish, clearer in the centre, with 3 fuscous spots in a triangle. 

 Legs ; thighs black, apex of all, and also a ring near the base of the 

 2nd and 3rd pairs, reddish-yellow ; tibia reddish-yellow, the base and 

 a subannular spot before the apex black ; tarsi reddish-yellow, apex 

 of the joints broadly black or piceous. 



Length, 2 2| lines. 



A single specimen, captured by Mr. E. C. Eye, by sweeping, near 

 Mickleham, during the summer of 1863. 



Eieber says it occurs under Artemisia, on species of Coronilla, and 

 on grass, in woods recently cut. 



