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Original description

Content:  p. 383. Pachylis nervosus, n. s. P. fuscus, obscurus, subtus rufescens ; thoracis margine postico testaceo ; elytrorum nervis fulvis, membrana nigricanti ; antennis nigris, articulo tertio dilatato, basi fulvo. Female. Long. lin. 17. Above dark brown, obscure, thickly clothed with very fine, short, yellow hairs. Head black, impunctate, with the tips of the antenniferous tubercles and a small spot at each ocellus testaceous. Ocelli red. Thorax with the lateral margins finely denticulated ; the surface rugose ; the posterior margin testaceous. Scutellum finely wrinkled. Coriaceous portion of the elytra very dark brown, very thickly and finely rugose-punctate, with the nervures fulvous and smooth ; membrane pitchy black, brassy. Margins of the abdomen brown, finely wrinkled, with a yellow spot on the edge of each segment. Body beneath reddish, opaque, and clothed like the upper surface with minute yellowish hairs. Margins of the abdomen and sides of the thorax somewhat shining. Breast with two spots of yellow hairs on each side. Legs brown; tarsi paler, with the apex blackish. Antennae /p. 384/ black ; third joint less dilated than in the preceding, but more so than in the following species, with its base reddish orange. a. . Presented by Capt. Sir Edward Belcher.

Source of information:  Dallas. 1852. List of the specimens of hemipterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. II:369-592

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