566 HEM1PTERA* 



18. RHYPAROCHROMUS plebeius. 



Lygseus sylvestris, Panz. F. G. 92. 10 (nee Linn.). 



Lygams plebeius, Fall Mon. dm. 6?. 11 (180?) $ Hem. Suec. 



59. 18 (1829). 

 Pachymerus sylvestris, Schill. Beitr. i. 73. 14. t. 6. fig. 1 (1829) ; 



Hahn, Wanz. i. 54. t. 9. fig. 33 (1831) ; Burm. Handb. ii. 296. 



8 (1835). 



Pachymerus plebeius, H. Sch. Norn. Ent. i. 44 (1835). 

 Rhyparochromus plebeius, Sahib. Geoc. Fenn. 61. 11 (1848). 

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



19. RHYPAROCHROMUS sordidus. 



Lygaeus sordidus, Fab. E. S. iv. 164. 101 (1794) Sf S. R. 231 

 131 (1803). 



a. E. Indies. Presented by Capt. Parry. 



b. China (Fow-choo-foo). Presented by G. T. Lay, Esq. 



20. RHYPAROCHROMUS chinensis, n. s. 



R. oblongo-ovatus, subelongatus, niger ; capite acuminate ; tho- 

 race elytrisque testaceo-variegatis j femoribus nigris. $ . 

 Lon 1 , lin. 



Oblong-ovate, somewhat elongate. Head much produced and 

 pointed anteriorly, black, impunctate. Thorax black ; its lateral 

 margins reflexed, with a yellow spot at the middle ; the trans- 

 verse furrow a little behind the middle ; the anterior lobe rather 

 convex, finely and rather sparingly punctured; posterior lobe 

 rather strongly punctured, with two yellow spots on the disc 

 Scutellum black, rather thickly and finely punctured, with two 

 yellow points on the disc about the middle and a third at the 

 apex. Base and inner margin of the coriaceous portion of the 

 elytra either testaceous thickly punctured with black, or black 

 more or less variegated with testaceous, apical portion black ; 

 outer margin testaceous, impunctate, terminating in a large tes- 

 taceous spot, punctured with brown, within which is a smaller 

 whitish impunctate spot ; membrane brown or blackish brown, 

 with some of the nervures pale towards the base. Body beneath 

 black ; abdomen opaque, clothed with a pale pubescence ; breast 

 finely punctured ; mesosternum with two minute spines. Ante- 

 rior coxa? spinous. Thighs black, pilose, with the base testa- 

 ceous ; the anterior pair much thickened, with a single spine near 

 the apex ; anterior tibise pale brown, with the apex black ; inter- 

 mediate and posterior tibise black ; tarsi brownish, clothed with 



a yellow 



ment of t 



Antennae with the basal joint pitchy black, the second pale brown, 



llow pubescence. Rostrum long, reaching the second seg- 

 ment of the abdomen, brown, with the last two joints blackish. 



