CORIXID.E. 605 



the $ narrower, above with a longer curve to the apex ; 2nd pair, 

 tibiae brownish at the apex; 3rd pair, tarsi beneath, 1st joint pos- 

 teriorly, on each side of the apical margin, 2nd only at the base, 

 black. 



Abdomen above black, in the $ rufescent at the sides ; underside 

 dull yellow; in the ^ the 1st 4 or 5 segments, in the ? the 1st 2, 

 black ; Genital segments fuscous, the margins pale. 



Length, 3 lines. 



Scarce. In the Ravensbourne, Lewisham, in October. 



Species 12. CORIXA NIGROLINEATA. 



COIUSA NIGROLINEATA, Fieb. Syn. Coris. No. 24 (1848) ; Spec. Coris. 34, 

 40, t. 2, fig. 18, palse (1851); Europ. Hem. 96, 

 24 (1861). 



COKIXA LINEOLATA, H. Schf. Wanz. ix, 55, t. 295, fig. 911 (1850). 



Above light yellowish-gray, with fine, transverse, black lines, the 

 intermediate spaces much broader. Pronotum with 7 8 black 

 lines, sometimes shortened and confluent in the middle. The 

 lines on the clavus straight and parallel, on the corium sub- 

 parallel, with their edges jagged, the ends often furcate. Pales 

 in the broad-cultrate, above convex, base widened. 



Head pale yellow, or brown on the Crown; posterior margin a 

 little produced in the middle; Face; in the <, the depression 

 reaching upwards to the eyes, its margin in front straight. 



Thorax. Pronotum short, rounded behind, with 7 8 black lines, 

 sometimes shortened and confluent in the middle; side margins 

 black ; the longitudinal middle line visible only as a short keel in 

 front. Mytra; Clavus throughout with straight, narrow, parallel, 

 black lines, occasionally furcate at the end ; Corium with the black 

 lines not so straight or regular as on the clavus, especially pos- 

 teriorly, their edges somewhat jagged and the ends more furcate, 

 opposite the posterior inner angle traversed by a very short longitu- 

 dinal black streak ; anterior marginal channel black, yellow on and 

 under the overhanging inner edge ; beyond the end of the channel 

 broadly yellow; line of the membrane-suture pale, broadest out- 

 wardly, followed by a dark line; Membrane with fine, angulated, 

 hieroglyphic characters, on all the margins short, parallel ; margins 



