488 ANTHOCORINA. 



scarcely perceptible, black-brown. Rostrum black-brown ; the end 

 of the 2nd and 3rd joints, and the whole of the 4th, yellowish. 



Thorax. Pronotum narrow, trapeziform, with very short, yel- 

 lowish hairs ; anterior angles rounded and deflected ; sides a little 

 projecting in the middle ; hinder angles' acute, posteriorly produced ; 

 posterior margin concave ; disk in the middle transversely convex, 

 the hinder 4th nearly flat, delicately transversely crenate. Scutellum 

 small, slightly convex, base not raised, apex acute. Elytra frds 

 the length of the abdomen, dull yellow-brown, with very short hairs, 

 very convex ; anterior margin yellow, thin, reflexed, greatly rounded ; 

 hinder angles broadly rounded ; posterior margin very slightly 

 rounded ; inner margin shorter than the anterior. Legs as in the 

 $ , except that the tibia are not blackish at the apex. 



Abdomen glossy, slightly convex, with very short, yellowish hairs ; 

 Connexivum slightly dentate on the margin. 

 Length, f- line. 



Near Halifax, Yorkshire (Curtis} ; under bark, Windsor Park 

 ( Westwood) ; under bark, and on palings, at Lee and Croydon ; 

 box trees, Box Hill, Surrey ; and in old hedges near Darenth ; not 

 scarce in June, but the $ always more abundant than the . 



Species 2 ZYGONOTUS ELEGANTULUS. 



(? ANTHOCORIS ELEGANTULUS, Barens. Berl. Ent. Zeits. ii, 191, t. 9, fig. 3, 



(1858). 

 <J ZYGONOTUS Fieb. Europ. Hem. 135, 3 (1861). 



J 1 like Z. Pselaphiformis, but narrower, lighter in colour ; ? with 

 the head and thorax narrow, red ; the elytra quite rudimentary, 

 the abdomen very broad and black. 



< Black, shining. 



Head. Crown deep red ; Face yellowish. Antennae black ; with 

 fine, short hairs ; 4th joint brown. Eyes brown. Ocelli approxi- 

 mate, prominent, red. Rostrum piceous, end yellowish. 



Thorax. Pronotum in front narrow ; sides at first but slightly, 

 at the middle widely divergent, very slightly concave; hinder 

 angles narrow, acute ; posterior margin very concave ; disk, in the 



