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deflected, the latter frequently abbreviated ; Clavus convex, deflected 

 to the corium ; Corium in the $ almost flat, in the ? convex ; 

 Cunem triangular, longer in the <$ than in the $ . Sternum : Pro- 

 sternum ; xyphus triangular ; Mcsosternum convex, with a faint 

 channel in the centre, anteriorly compressed into a triangle ; pos- 

 terior margin convex, distinctly keeled, indented in the middle 

 Metasternum ; centre small, with a callosity in the middle. 



Species 1. PCECILOSCYTUS UNIFASCIATUS. 



LYG^US UNIFASCIATUS, Fab. E. S. iv, 178, 153 (1794). 

 CAPSUS Fad. S. R. 243, 9 (1803) ; H. Schf. Norn. Ent. 



i, 51 (1835); Meyer, Caps. 104, 93 (1843); 

 Sahib. Geoc. Een. 108, 39 (1848) ; KirscU. 

 Caps. 61, 59, & p. 112 (1855). 



Mmis SEMIFLAVUS, Wolff, Ic. Cim. 154, tab. 15, fig. 148, a, b (1804). 

 PHYTOCOBJS SEMIFLAVUS, Fall. Hem. Suec. i, 86, 21, (1829); Hahn, 



Wanz. i, 208, fig. 107 (1832). 

 LATEHALJS & MARGINATUS, Hahn, Wanz. ii, 85, figs. 169 & 



170 (1834). 



UNIFASCIATUS, Kolen. Mel. Ent. ii, 123, 105 (1857). 

 CAPSUS (CAPSUS) UNIFASCIATUS, Flor, Rhyn. Liv. i, 544, 42 (1860). 

 PCECILOSCYTUS Fieb. Europ. Hem. 276, 1 (1861). 



$ Elongate ; $ robust, oval. Black with yellow markings, clothed 

 with fine, depressed, golden yellow hairs. Cuneus bright red, 

 on the anterior margin a somewhat half oval black patch. 

 $ with abbreviated elytra. 



Head black ; Crown with a yellow spot on the inner margin of 

 each eye. Antenna yellowish ; apex of the 2nd joint, and 3rd and 

 4th, black. Rostrum brown, tip black. 



Thorax, Pronotum black, thickly and finely punctured, and 

 faintly wrinkled transversely ; posterior margin yellow. Scutellum 

 finely wrinkled transversely, apex yellow. Elytra of the <$ longer 

 than the $ , in the latter barely covering the abdomen ; Clavus 

 black ; Corium black ; anterior margin yellow ; basal half of the disk 

 yellow, toothed at its apex ; between the 2nd nerve, and the apex of 

 the clavus, a triangular yellow patch, or the space between the 2nd 

 nerve and the claval suture yellow, and the apex between the 

 bifurcation of the 1st nerve yellow ; Cuneus bright red, on the 



