440 BULLETIN UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. 



appressed yellow hairs, the head with a few distant, prominent, black 

 hairs. Head moderately long, the eyes very prominent, the face oblique, 

 carrrying a few long, erect, black, bristles ; base of the head constitut- 

 ing a distinct neck, the throat concave ; tylus in the middle and the 

 ends of the cheeks generally yellow, but sometimes totally black ; front 

 moderately flat, triangularly emarginate at the base of the tylus, the 

 labrum broad, with the lateral edge sharp, and with a median ridge. 

 Eostrum reaching almost to the middle of the posterior coxse (in one 

 specimen, not extending beyond the intermediate coxae), piceous-black, 

 paler or yellowish at tip. Antennse moderately long and slender, thickly 

 clothed with fine, projecting, black hairs, a few of which are stouter; 

 basal joint yellowish-brown above, dark at base, and beneath, with the 

 basal two-thirds, blackish; second joint slender, dull yellowish, piceous 

 at base and tip, a little shorter than the third and fourth united ; third 

 and fourth a little stouter, subfusiform, dusky black, subequal in length. 

 Pronotum subtrapezoidal, the posterior lobe transversely flat, the an- 

 terior lobe convex, reaching two-thirds of the length, smooth, bounded 

 by a deeply-impressed line each side and behind, its central fovea small ; 

 sides flattened, the recurved edge bending abruptly downward before 

 reaching the collum; posterior third of disk finely crenate-punctate. 

 Scutellum finely crenate-punctate, finely rugulose behind, the depression 

 large, somewhat incurved and well defined. Legs dull yellow ; the 

 femora with short, yellow hairs, the anterior ones blackish on the out- 

 side, and the middle and posterior ones with two rows of brown dots on 

 each of the outer and inner surfaces ; tibise with short brown hairs and 

 remote stouter black hairs ; first and last joints of the tarsi blackish, the 

 second joint and nails dull yellow. The tarsi are often soiled yellow, 

 with blackish hairs, and with only traces of dusky on the ends of the 

 first and last joints. Venter shining black, very minutely rugulose, 

 clothed with fine sericeous, yellowish, prostrate pubescence, the poste- 

 rior margins of the segments often pale piceous, and apex of the termi- 

 nal segment yellow. 



Hemelytra minutely scabrous, golden sericeous, appressed pubescent; 

 generally with an oblong yellow spot near th^pd of the clavus ; corium 

 marked on the disk with a longitudinal serielW four long yellow spots 

 between the first and second nervules, and near the tip with one or two 

 smaller spots placed more inwardly ; costal margin broadly arcuated, 

 turned up, the submargin depressed, broader at base ; membrane pale 

 brownish or dirty yellow, sometimes short, and almdst confined to the 

 inner length of the corium, the cuueus black and coriaceous, inclosing 

 the outer side of the membrane ; the areoles with a series of black spots 

 across the middle, more or less blackish at base and tip, and the 

 nervules deep black. 



Length to tip of venter 5-6 millimeters ; to end of membrane 5^-7 

 millimeters. Width of base of pronotum 2-2J millimeters. 



Common in various parts of Europe, as well in the l^orth as in the 



