ANTHOCORID.E. 501 



Head smooth. Antenna pitchy black, finely haired ; base and apex 

 of the 2nd joint narrowly whitish. Eyes black. Ocelli red. Rostrum 

 yellow-brown. 



Thorax. Pronotum smooth, posteriorly delicately crenate-punc- 

 tate. Scutellum smooth. Elytra ; Clavus and Corium slightly shining, 

 yellowish, the former dusky at the apex; Cuneus more or less 

 piceous, sometimes only on the inner margin; Membrane white, 

 lustrous, iridescent. Legs ; thiglis pitchy black ; tibiae and tarsi 

 yellow-brown. 



Abdomen shining, smooth. 



Length, 1J line. 



Plentiful near London, in spring and summer, among the straw in 

 heaps of stable-dung in fields. 



Species 2. PIEZOSTETHUS RUFIPENNIS. 



XYLOCOKIS B.UFIPENNIS, L. Duf. An. Soc. Ent. France, ii, 106, 1 (1833) ; 



Burnt. Handb. ii, 290, 1 (1835). 



LYCTOCOBJS CORTICALIS, Hahn, Wanz. iii, 21, t. 79, fig. 244 (1835). 

 XYLOCOEIS BICOLOU, Scholtz, Arb. u. Verand. (1846). 

 IATIOR, Muls. An. Soc. Lin. 106 (1852). 



OBLIQUUS, Costa, Cent. (1852). 



(XYLOCOKIS) RTJFIPENNIS, Flor, Rhyn. Liv. i, 668, 2 (1860). 

 PIEZOSTETHUS BICOLOB & P. RUFIPENNIS, Fieb. Europ. Hem. 139, 3 & 4, 



(1861). 



Black, shining ; clavus piceous or pitchy yellowish ; corium dusky yel- 

 lowish ; embolium and cuneus pitchy black ; membrane white. 



Head smooth. Antenna ; 1st and 2nd joints pitchy black, with 

 short hairs ; 3rd, and 4th, pale piceous, apex of the 4th still paler. 

 Ocelli red. Rostrum pitchy yellow. 



Thorax. Pronotum smooth, posteriorly delicately crenate. Sou- 

 tellum smooth, with short, yellowish pubescence. Elytra; Clavus 

 piceous or pitchy yellowish ; Corium within the embolium, dusky- 

 yellowish, rather dull ; Embolium and Cuneus pitchy black, shining ; 

 Membrane clear white, shining. Legs ; thighs black, apex yellowish- 

 brown ; tibia and tarsi yellow-brown ; 3rd pair darkest. 



Abdomen shining, with fine, short, whitish hairs. 



Length, Inline. 



Eare ; under loose bark of oaks and other trees, in spring. 



