ECTOBIUS PERSPICILLAKIS. 79< 



MALE IMAGO (PI. VIII, f. 5). --General colour pale 

 ochre or straw colour. Length about 9 mm., inter- 

 mediate between that of L. lapponicus and L. panzeri. 

 Head and antennas slightly redder than the general 

 colour ; eyes nearly black. Pronotum (fig. 10 b) reddish- 

 ochre, with slightly darker marks on the disc, and 

 pellucid margins. Elytra lanceolate with very incon- 

 spicuous dark dots, reaching beyond the tip of the 

 abdomen. Wings fully developed, costal region pale 

 ochre, the remainder nearly colourless. Legs pale, with 

 a transparent appearance. Abdomen reddish ochre, 

 with a row of darker marks along each side. Cerci 

 pale, similar in colour to that of the abdomen. 



FEMALE IMAGO.- -Rather broader in build and not 

 quite so long, but otherwise much like the male. 

 Elytra and wings shorter than' those of the male, but 



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both fully developed. 



OOTHECA.- -Brunner ( 6 Prodromus,' p. 35) says: 

 " Oothecae ab illis E. lapponicae L. hand diversae ' 

 The ootheca differs little from that of E. lapponicus. 

 At present I have not seen a female with one. 



NYMPH. Again I quote Brunner, who says : "Larvae 

 primi stadii thorace ferrugineo, abdomine fusco, stadi- 

 orum posteriori! m unicolores ferrugineae, f route et 

 segmentis thoracis disperse fusco-punctatis ' -In the 

 first stage the nymphs have a rust-coloured thorax 

 and dark abdomen ; in later stages they are uniformly 

 rust-coloured with the " forehead ' and thorax bearing 

 scattered dark dots. 



VARIATION, ETC.- -Apparently E. perspicillaris does 

 not vary much in either size or colour. The general 

 tint, including that of the cerci, may at times be darker. 

 E. pallidus of Stephens* is not a distinct species, but 

 Eland Shaw,t after examining in the British Museum 

 what are believed to be the types, thinks that it is 

 a rather dark form of E. perspicillaris. 



* ' 111. Brit. Ins/ vi, p. 48. 



f ' Ent. Mo. Mag.' 1889, p. 361). 



