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Thorax. Pronotum slightly convex, and shining, more strongly 

 punctured than the head ; anterior margin broadly pitchy-black ; 

 disk, 1st third reddish-ochreous, in the middle of which colour is 

 usually a transverse, piceous band ; sides ochreous, the rest with a 

 greenish tinge in which the punctures appear black. Scutellum red- 

 dish ochreous, lateral margins black, centre whitish. Elytra ; 

 Clavus and Gorium slightly shining, more deeply and widely punc- 

 tured than the pronotum ; the apex of the Clavus piceous ; Corium 

 ochreous, internally flat, externally convex ; anterior margin reflexed ; 

 posterior margin slightly sinuate, narrowly brown ; on the disk, on 

 the inner nerve, a piceous dash extends upwards and inwards, 

 broadest and darkest on the posterior margin, disappearing at about 

 i the length of the nerve ; Membrane lustrous ; in the centre of the 

 base a large piceous spot (in continuation of the dash on the corium) ; 

 the space between the 2nd and 3rd, and 3rd and 4th nerves light fus- 

 cous. Sternum lightly punctured, black ; the sides more or less reddish- 

 ochreous. Legs ochreous or yellowish ; thighs (except the tips) 

 with a brown tinge ; tarsi ochreous, the last ^ of the 3rd joint, and 

 the claws black. 



Abdomen above brown, centre and sides black ; Connexwum brown. 

 Underside, base black, towards the apex piceous or ochreous. 



Length, If 2 lines. 



Not rare where it occurs. Lee, in October ; in tufts of Carex 

 growing in an old clay-pit. 



FAMILY 5. ZOSMERID^E. 



Genus 1. ZOSMERUS, Lap. 



Oval. 



Head short, broad, deflected ; Crown short ; sides produced round 

 the base of the eyes, and projecting before them in an angulated 

 spinose point, between which and the face the antennae are inserted 

 on a short tubercle ; Face long ; central lobe broad, prominent ; 

 side lobes much longer than the central lobe, curved inwards at the 

 ends. Antenna short; 1st joint very thick, subpyriform, with a 

 short petiole ; 2nd not so long as the 1st, much thinner, clavate ; 

 3rd longer than the 1st and 2nd together, filiform ; 4th stout, longer 

 that the 1st, fusiform. Eyes subpedunculate, very prominent. 



