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somewhat mussel-shaped process, standing out sideways, having to- 

 wards its outer end a strong depression or slit, the orifice of the 

 odoriferous organ. Legs strong ; thighs thick beyond the middle, 

 smaller at the base and end; tarsi ; 1st and 3rd joints long; in 

 length subequal, the 3rd stoutest. 



Abdomen above flat, beneath convex ; Connexivum deep, greatly 

 reflexed. Underside, in the $ the centre of the 2nd segment is 

 swollen, and posteriorly gives out a keel which extends across the 

 3rd. Genital segments after the same type as Oymus, except that 

 the 3rd is convex, and rounded at the end. 



Species 1. ISCHNORHYNCHUS RESEDA. 



RESEDA, Panz. F. G. 40, 20. 



DIDYMUS, Zett. Act. Holm. 71 (1819) ; Fall. Hem. Suec. 50, 4 



(1829). 



HETEROGASTER RESEDA, Schitt. Beitr. 80, t. 8, fig. 5 (1829); Burm. 

 Handb. ii, 292, 1 (1835); H.Schf. Norn. Ent. 

 i, 46 (1835). 



CYMUS RESEDA, Kolen. Mel. Ent. ii, 92, 64 (1845) ; Sahib. Geoc. Ten. 

 71, 1 (1848). 



(LYCTUS) RESEDA, Flor, Rhyn. Liv. i, 296, 4 (1860). 

 ISCHNORHYNCHUS DIDYMUS, Fieb. Europ. Hem. 199, 1 (1861). 



RESEDA, Stal, Yet. Akad. Eorhand. 213, 1 (1862). 



Head reddish, base narrowly black ; often with 2 black, pointed 

 dashes enclosing the red ocelli. Antennae ; 1st joint black; 2nd 

 ochreous-brown, base and apex black ; 3rd ochre ous-brown, base 

 black ; 4th black, apex piceous. Eyes pitchy black. Rostrum 

 piceous, base ochreous beneath, 



Thorax. Pronotum strongly punctured, ochreous-red, the front 

 often piceous ; the anterior depressed portion posteriorly with a 

 transverse, smooth, sometimes sinuate black line interrupted in the 

 middle ; centre of the disk with a pale, longitudinal line ; posterior 

 margin sometimes black. Scutellum lightly punctured, reddish, base 

 pale and more strongly black-punctured. Elytra ; Clavus ochreous, 

 with 2 rows of strong punctures, anterior margin reddish, apex piceous; 

 Corium ochreous, very finely punctured ; anterior margin with a 

 fine brown line along the edge ; inner margin red ; posterior margin 

 reddish, externally with a fine brown line more or less distinct ; a 



