240 I March, 
Ehtpabochromus lyncetjs, Fieh., Europ. Hem. 194, 6 (18G1) ; Stal, 
Ofv. K. Vet. Akad. Hand!., 221, 3 (1862). 
Elliptic, black, dull ; sides of pronotum flat, broadly pale oclireous 
throughout ; elytra ochreous, closely punctured with black ; corium at 
the inner posterior angle with a large sub-rhomboidal black spot, with a 
small white spot attached posteriorly. 
Head — Unpunctnred, clothed with extremely fine, appressed, yellowish hairs. 
AntenncB comparatively short and slender, finely pubescent, 1st joint with two 
or three strong, projecting hairs, the base of the 1st joint and the junction of 
the 1st and 2nd, and 2nd and 3rd, narrowly yellowish. Rostrum black. 
Thorax — Pronotum broad, very slightly convex, with almost imperceptible yellowish 
pubescence ; sides nearly straight, but rounded off anteriorly, flat, foliaceous, 
broadly clear pale ochreous throughout,- disc, on the 1st two-thirds black, 
unpunctured, the last third ochreous, with large, confluent black punctures 
which extend to the posterior angles in a streak. Scutellum depressed, black, 
with distant, very small, yellow hairs, the sides posteriorly with a long ochreous 
line. Elytra ochreous : clavi(,s with three rows of large, black punctures, 
mostly confluent and forming lines ; corium similarly punctured, the nerves 
clear, but margined with a narrow black line ; anterior margin mostly clear ; 
in the inner posterior angle a large, sub-rhomboidal, black spot, to which out- 
wardly and posteriorly is attached a clear white triangular spot margined 
outwardly with a black line ; the inner posterior angle of the black spot has on 
it a very small white line, and on the upper-side of the spot a whitish spot juts 
into the black : membrane fuscous, with a sub-lunate white spot under the 
apex of the corium ; nerves dark, on the basal half whitish, on the two outer 
ones clearer and diaphanous ; on the posterior margin, between the nerves, 
large, triangular, whitish, diaphanous spots. Sternum — at the base of each 
coxa a yellowish spot. Legs black ; the junction of the thighs and tibiae nar- 
rowly rufous ; thighs, beneath, with ono stout, short, sharp spine ; tihice, 1st 
pair straight, rufous, on the 1st two-thirds beneath with fine sjDinose hairs ; 
2nd and 3rd pairs with fine projecting spines ; tarsi, hairs and claws brown. 
Abdomen — Beneath, with delicate black pubescence. Length 3 — 3^ lines. 
A single $ taken at the base of the palings, under fir trees, at 
Dartford Heath, 5th I\Tay, 1867 (Scott) ; one in the Isle of Wight 
(Pascoe) ; and several of both sexes, hybernating in tufts of grass and 
rushes in an old sand-pit at Shirley, near Croydon, in November last 
(Bouff. ^ Scott). 
Differs from C. Pini in being shorter, more oval, broader in pro- 
portion to the length, in the shorter antenna?, in the broadly yellowish 
sides of the pronotum, in the angular white spot attached to the black 
spot on the corium, and in the lighter colour of the membrane. 
Although C. lynceus is stated to have been originally described by 
Fabricius from an English specimen, yet, as we had seen no authentic 
