MIBIDJB. 295 



The above description has been made from a single example taken 

 by the Eev. T. A. Marshall, in the New Forest, but we cannot give 

 the date. Kirschbauin says June and July. 



Species 2. LOPOMORPHUS FERRUGATUS. 



Minis FERRUGATUS, Fall. Hem. Suec. i, 129, 2 (1829) ; Schill. Arb. und 



Veriind. 52 (1845); Flor, Rhyn. Liv. i, 439, 11 



(I860). 

 LOPUS H. Schf. Wanz. iii, 46, fig. 263 (1836) ; Meyer, Caps. 



39, 2 (1843) ; Sahib. Geoc. Fen. 89, 2 (1848) ; 



Kirschb. Caps. 36, 12 (1855). 



The ( in developed examples brownish-pink ; ? pale pink, clothed 

 with long, fine yellow or brownish-red hairs. 



$ Head black; Crown with two streaks, often extending from 

 the base, along the inside of the eyes, terminating at the base of 

 the antenniferous processes, and a narrow line down the centre of 

 the clypeus, clear yellow ; Face black, sides of all the lobes yel- 

 lowish. Antennae piceous, clothed with short, stout, pitchy-black 

 hairs, especially the 1st joint, which is as long as the pronotum ; 

 the base and a broad streak on the outside, black ; 2nd cylindrical, 

 2 times as long as the 1st, in the middle reddish-brown ; 3rd pitchy- 

 black, about f the length of the 2nd ; 4th pitchy-black, half as long 

 as the 3rd. Rostrum brownish or brownish-yellow, tip piceous. 



Thorax. Pronotum anteriorly black ; posteriorly reddish ; anterior 

 margin in the centre yellowish ; sides yellowish-white, broadest at the 

 hinder angles ; disk with a large, triangular, dusky-yellowish patch, 

 its apex at the anterior margin. Scutellum black, with a reddish- 

 brown spot at the base on either side the yellow central line, equi- 

 distant from it and the basal angles ; frequently the apical half of the 

 central line is enlarged into a triangle, and the two basal spots joined 

 by a yellow line. Elytra : Clavus ; inner margin pitchy-black, a little 

 widest at the base ; Corium ; anterior margin, as far as the cuneus, pale 

 yellow ; Cuneus long and narrow ; Membrane gray, the inner marginal 

 nerve pitchy-black ; cell-nerves pale brownish or yellowish ; a little 

 below the cuneus is a dusky brown streak. Leas ochreous-brown, 

 clothed with short black hairs; thighs with black- spots more or less 



