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black or black : tarsi piceous, base of the first joint narrowly- 

 brownish. 



Abdomen beneath black. 



Length 3 lines. 



Very closely allied to Pachymerus piiieti , H.-Sch. 



Family Pyrrhocoridse. 



Genus Pyrrhocoris, Fall. 

 Pyrrhocoris coriaceus. 



Male paleluteous,ye??2a/e reddish brown ; both sexes thickly 

 punctured with piceous. 



Head black, thickly punctured, with a longitudinal luteous 

 central line. Croum more or less brown on either side the 

 base of the central lobe of the face, and with a short, shallow, 

 black, central channel. Antennce pitchy black. Eyes reddish 

 brown or piceous. Rostrum piceous. 



Thorax. — Pronotum luteous or reddish brown, coarsely 

 punctured, except two somewhat shining, trapezoidal, black 

 patches a little before the middle ; these are separated by a 

 luteous line, and have also a pale margin. Scutellum luteous 

 or reddish brown, with piceous punctures and generally a black 

 patch in the centre. Elytra luteous or reddish brown, with 

 piceous punctures, the punctures much finer than those on the 

 pronotum : cor i urn with two minute piceous spots — one almost 

 in a line with the middle of the scutellum, the other almost in 

 a line with the apex of the clavus (in the female these are 

 very indistinct). Memhrane imperfectly developed, pale or 

 dark luteous, with piceous nerves. Sternum black, shining, 

 delicately punctured : prosternum^ anterior and posterior 

 margins yellowish white : meso- and 7netasternum, posterior 

 margins whitish. Legs dark piceous, base exteriorly vv'hite : 

 coxce piceous, apex whitish : fulcra pale brownish yellow : 

 thighs dark piceous, somewhat shining, apex narrowly whitish 

 or yellowish : tibice whitish or yellowish : ^arst pale brownish. 



Abdomen above more or less pale ; beneath chestnut, shining ; 

 posterior margin of the last segment yellowish white. 



Length 3-31 lines. 



Family Tingididae. 

 Genus Tingis, Fab. 

 Tingis pyrioides. 

 Extremely like T. pyri in nearly every particular ; and 



