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brown-black. Legs : coxce and fulcra yellowish-white ; thighs 

 clothed with somewhat erect, brown hairs ; 1st and 2nd pairs 

 orange-red, with one or two longitudinal rows of black spots on each 

 side, towards the apex ; 3rd apical half brownish-red, with an irre- 

 gular piceous patch on the upperside, composed of black spots, more 

 or less confluent, underside generally with 2 rows of spots ; tibice, 

 tarsi, and claws, as in the <$ . 



Length, 3 3| lines. 



Not an uncommon species at Lewisham, Eltham, Bexley, &c., by 

 beating bushes in May. 



FAMILY 16. EROTICORnm 



Genus 1. EROTICORIS.* 



In developed examples elongate, slightly oval ; in undeveloped 

 examples broadly oval posteriorly. Elytra in the latter case 

 without cuneus or membrane. 



Head short, pointed, vertical in front, twice as broad across the 

 eyes as long ; Crown convex, gently deflected to the base of the 

 clypeus, with a deep central channel ; hinder margin between the 

 eyes with a very narrow transverse keel ; Clypeus very convex, apex 

 considerably in front of the eyes, and with the short antenniferous 

 processes in a line with the middle of the lower half of the eyes ; 

 Face ; central lobe longish convex, pointed, produced in front ; side 

 lobes short, narrow ; rounded outwardly at the apex. Antennce ; in 

 developed examples shorter than the body, in undeveloped examples 

 $ longer than the ? , about Jths as long as the body ; 1st joint stout, 

 somewhat cylindrical, curved along the inside, almost as long as the 

 head ; 2nd, 3rd, and 4th somewhat filiform ; 2nd, 2^ times as long 

 as the 1st ; 3rd and 4th as long as or a little longer than the 2nd, 

 3rd longer than the 4th, the latter compressed on the sides. Eyes 

 large, prominent ; viewed from above, hemispherical, from the side 

 short oval. Rostrum reaching to the 1st abdominal segment. 



Thorax. Pronotum longish trapeziform ; in developed examples 

 13- time as broad on the posterior margin as long, in undeveloped 

 ones about 1-^ time, with a broad collar and 2 callosities in front, 

 most perceptible in undeveloped examples, frequently formed into 



, a loved one, Kopfc, a bug. 



