ANTHOCORID.E. 493 



Head. Antenna; 2nd joint yellow-brown or red-brown, base 

 black, apex brown. Ocelli red or brown. Rostrum black, base brown. 



Thorax. Pronotum ; sides very slightly curved, almost straight ; 

 discoidal callosity smooth, the rest finely crenate-punctate. Scu- 

 tellum smooth, or delicately punctured behind. Elytra ; Clavus and 

 Corium unicolorous light brown ; anterior margin of the latter and 

 cuneus of a deeper tinge ; Membrane light yellowish-brown, apical 

 half a shade darker ; nerves concolorous. Sternum delicately trans- 

 versely crenate. Legs; fulcra, apex of thighs, and tibia, yellow- 

 brown, apex of the latter sometimes dusky ; tarsi brown-black ; 1st 

 and 2nd joints generally yellowish. 



Abdomen glossy; above delicately crenate,' almost destitute of 

 hairs ; beneath finely punctured, with more perceptible, but very 

 short hairs ; genital segments with a few strong, projecting hairs. 



Length, 1| line. 



Fieber remarks of this species, " that it resembles the very pale 

 examples of Tetraphleps vittatus, but is distinguished by the uni- 

 colorous, yellowish elytra, and by the sides of the pronotum being 

 only in front narrowly reflexed." 



Common on Scotch fir and larch trees, from July to October. 



Species 2. TEMNOSTETHUS PUSILLUS. 



ANTHOCOEIS PUSILLUS, H. Schf. Norn. Ent. i, 60 (1335) ; Wanz. ix, 225, 



t. 316, fig. 977(1850). 



ALBOPASCIATUS, Fieb. Weit. Beitr. Ill, t. 2, fig. 10 (1836). 

 LUGUBRIS, Bohem. Yet. Akad. Forh. 58, 13 (1852) ; Flor t 



Rhyn. Liv. i, 647, 2 (1860). 

 TEMNOSTETHUS PUSILLUS, Fieb. Europ. Hem. 136, 1 (1861). 



Black, sides of the pronotum sinuate, the margins narrow and sharp ; 

 base of the elytra whitish ; tibice orange. 



Head smooth. Antennce delicately short-haired ; 2nd joint, in the 

 ( , black, or red in the middle ; in the $ orange, with the ends only 

 black or dusky. Eyes black. Ocelli red. Rostrum black. 



Thorax. Pronotum rather dull, sides sinuate, the margins^ very 

 narrow and thin ; discoidal callosity almost smooth, behind it 

 transversely crenate. Scutellum; base smooth, behind the middle 

 delicately crenate. Elytra ; Clavus black or brown, sometimes yel- 



