5/0 HEMIPTERA. 



28. RHYPAROCHROMUS longicollis, n. s. 



R. elongatus, niger, opacus ; thorace elongato, marginibus luteis; 

 elytrorum corio macula magna subapicali lutea. S . 

 Long. lin. 5. 



Elongate. Head black, opaque, impunctate. Ocelli reddish. 

 Thorax very long, slightly narrowed in front, with a transverse 

 impression behind the middle; the lateral reflexed margins yellow, 

 except towards the posterior angles ; anterior lobe rather convex, 

 black, opaque, impunctate; posterior lobe thickly and rather 

 strongly punctured, of a brownish tint, with a slightly elevated 

 pale central line. Scutellum black, thickly punctured, with a 

 minute point at the tip, and another on each side on the disc 

 before the middle, testaceous. Coriaceous portion of the elytra 

 pitchy black, punctured, the basal half of the outer margin tes- 

 taceous, and the same portion of the disc marked with the same 

 colour ; the apex black, with a large yellow spot on the outer 

 margin, leaving the apical margin black ; membrane deep brown, 

 opaque, with the nervures paler towards the base. Abdomen 

 beneath pitchy black, impunctate, thickly clothed with a pale 

 pubescence ; the lateral margins of the fourth and fifth segments 

 partly yellow. Breast deep black, finely punctured. Anterior 

 thighs pitchy black, with the base testaceous; intermediate 

 thighs yellow, with the apex pitchy brown ; tibise and tarsi tes- 

 taceous. Rostrum testaceous, with the basal and apical joints 

 brown. Antennae with the basal joint brownish testaceous ; re- 

 mainder wanting. 



a. New Holland. Presented by General Thomas Hardwicke. 



29. RHYPAROCHROMUS pulcher. 



Pachymerus pulcher, H. Sch. Nom. Ent. i. 44 & 79 (1835) df 

 Wanz. iv. 13. t. 113. fig. 358 (1839). 



b. Lateral margins of the thorax not reflexed. 

 30. RHYPAROCHROMUS nubilus. 



Lygseus nubilus, Fall. Hon. dm. 65. 6 (1807) fy Hem. Suec. 

 "(1829) ; Zett. F. Ins. Lapp. i. 471. 7 (1832) & Ins. Lapp. 263. 

 8 (1840.) 



Pachymerus nubilus, Schill. Beitr. i. 68. /. t. 7. f. 2 (1829); H. 

 Sch. Cont. Panz. F. G. 121. 5. fyNom. Ent. i. 45 & 79 (1835). 

 Pachymerus geniculatus, Hahn, Wanz. 68. t. 10. fig. 41 (1831). 

 Beosus nubilus, Sahib. Geoc. Fenn. 65. 1 (1848). . 

 a. Italy. 



