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Thorax. Pronotum much deflected, subquadrate, the sides straight 

 (the margins not sinuate) ; from the hinder angles forward gradually 

 flatter, wider and foliaceous, with 2 or 3 rows of reticulated 

 punctures, the margins narrowly reflexed ; anterior angles very 

 broadly rounded; posterior angles rounded; disk with strong, 

 contiguous punctures ; anterior raised portion at its base black, its 

 surface with 3 parallel, longitudinal keels arising at the anterior 

 margin, and reaching to the highest part of the posterior convexity ; 

 the latter more or less spotted or suffused with black ; sometimes 

 also the foliaceous sides have 2 or 3 black spots. Scutellum black, 

 apex nodular, yellow. Elytra ; Clavus and Corium finely punctate- 

 reticulate, with indistinct, gray or blackish spots, sometimes dis- 

 tinctly denned 5 Clavus ; apex brown or black ; Corium ; anterior 

 margin narrowly reflexed, with 4 or 5 distinct blackish spots ; nerves 

 darker than the disk: Membrane; the coriaceous basal portion 

 coloured like the corium, the remainder colourless, shining ; nerves 

 dusky at the base. Legs concolorous with the antenna. 



Abdomen above black ; Connexivum dusky, lighter at the junction 

 of the segments. Underside pale. 



Length, 1-J If line. 



Found on the ground, under debris and at the roots of grass, 

 in sandy places. Southampton Water, September ; Hove, near 

 Brighton, October. 



Species 2. ZOSMERUS LAPORTEI. 



' ZOSMENUS LAPOIITEI, Fieb. Ent. Mon. 33, 3, t. 2, fig. 17 (1844) ; H. Schf. 

 Wanz. ix, 193 (1850); Flor, Rhyn. Liv. i, 313, 

 1 (1860); Fieb. Europ. Hem. 117, 4 (1861). 



Dusky ochreous or yellowish-gray ; unicolorous, or with indistinct 

 dusky spots. Pronotum subtrapezoidal, not much narrowed in 

 front, side margins deeply concave, anterior part of the disk 

 with 2 short keels, not reaching the anterior margin. 



Head; rarely entirely brown, usually the crown at the base 

 narrowly black, or piceous ; front and frontal spines ochreous, the 

 latter with a black line on the inner margin ; Face ; central lobe 

 usually clear ochreous, sometimes dusky, with a black line on its 

 sides ; side lobes ochreous, their ends curved and meeting, in the ? 



