562 1 HEMIPTERA, 



Giro. 64.6 (1807) # Hero. Stoec. 51. 6(1829); Zetf. F. Ins. Lapp. 



i. 4/0. 5 (1832) <$ Iws. L0j^. 263. 6 (1840). 

 Pachymerus Pini, ScftiW. Be^r. i. 64. 1. t. 5. fig. 3 (1829); 



Hahn, Warn. i. 38. t. 7- fig- 25 (1831) ; Bwrro. HawcZft. ii. 296. 



9 (1835); H. Sch. Norn. Ent. i. 44 & 79 (1835). 

 Rhyparochromus Pini, Am. fy Serv. Hem. 254. 2 (1843); Sahib* 



Geoc. Fenn. 55. 1 (1848). 

 Geoff. Ins. i. 449. 28. 



a. Europe. From Mr. Children's Collection. 



4. RHYPAROCHROMUS phceniceus. 



Pachymerus phcenieeus, H. Sch. Cont. Panz. F. G. 118. 15. fy 

 Norn. Ent. i. 44 & 79 (1835). 



a. Italy. Presented by Dr. Bowler. 



5. RHYPAROCHROMUS quadratus. 



Lygseus quadratus, Fab. E. S. Supp. 541.111 (1798) <$ S. R. 232, 



141 (1803); Coqb. III. i. 37. t. 9. fig. 12 (1799). 

 Pachymerus quadratus, S chill. Beitr. i. 66. 4. t. 5. fig. 6 (1829) ; 



Hahn, Wanz. i. 50. t. 8. fig. 31 (1831); H. Sch. Norn. Ent. i. 



45 & 80 (1835) ; Bohem. Kongl. Vet. Akad. Handl. 1849, 246 



(1851). 



Rhyparochromus quadratus, Sahib. Geoc. Fenn. 55. 2 (1848). 

 Xanthochilus, Amyot, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 2 me ser. iv. 84. 124. 



a. Europe. From Mr. Children's Collection. 



b. Italy. 



6. RHYPAROCHROMUS apicalis, n. s. 



R. praecedenti affinis, supra griseo-testaceus, fusco-punctatus ; 

 capite, thoracis parte antica marginibus exeeptis, scutello apice 

 excepto, maculaque in singulo elytro, nigris ; membrana nigra* 

 apice alba. $ ? . 

 Long. lin. 3^-4. 



Oblong-ovate, above greyish testaceous, thickly punctured 

 with brown. Head black, impunctate, with the central lobe red-* 

 dish.- Thorax with the anterior half black and subimpunctate, 

 except the margins, which are grey or reddish. Scutellum black 

 at the base. Coriaceous portion of the elytra with a black 

 streak on the clavus, and a rhomboidal black spot near the inner 

 apical angle ; its posterior margin whitish ; membrane deep 

 black, opaque, with the apex white. Abdomen beneath deep red 

 or pitchy, opaque, clothed with a short yellowish down. Breast 

 black, finely punctured, with the posterior margins of the 

 segments testaceous, and with a yellow spot at the base of each 

 f>f the anterior legs. Anterior thighs black, with the base, a 



