BERYTID^. 151 



oiis, the anterior margin sometimes brown ; the base of each nerve 

 with a small, longish, piceous or black spot, which is sharply pointed 

 on the side nest the membrane ; the 4th nerve curved near the base, 

 (generally) joined to the 5th, and forming a cell in which is often a 

 black spot which extends across the 4th nerve, and ends before the 

 3rd. In the spaces between the 2nd and 3rd, the 3rd and 4th, and 

 the 4th and 5th are broad fuscous-brown streaks, of whicli the 1st 

 scarcely reaches half-way up from the posterior margin, the 2nd is 

 continued interruptedly to the base, and the 3rd is very short ; 

 all tliese streaks are wide on the posterior margin. In the $ all 

 the streaks are very faint. Sternum in the ^ brownish, in the $ 

 ochreous. Legs concolorous with the antenna) ; the club of the 

 thighs very gradual not very thick, and only a shade darker than the 

 rest of the limb ; tarsi; 1st and 2nd joints ochreous, 3rd black. 



Abdomen beneath slightly shining, finely punctured ; in the ^ 

 brownish-ochreous, with a broad brown band down each side ; in the 

 ? ochreous. Genital segments in the ^ globose, the lateral pro- 

 cesses short, curved inwards ; in the ? the processes are long, the 

 points obtuse, distinctly separated, the sides perceptibly constricted. 



Length, 2\ lines. 



AVidely distributed, but not common ; in moss, AVest "Wickhara 

 Wood, March ; Sanderstead, May ; Mickleham, April and August > 

 Deal, May and August. 



iSpecies 2. — Berytus montivagus. 



Berxtus montivagus {Bremi), Meyer Ddr. Stett. Eut. Zeit. ii, 88 



(1841) ; Fieb. Wien. Eut. Monats. iii, 

 204, 2 (1859); Europ. Hem. 210, 2 

 (1861). 



Ochreous. Frontal process from the side semi-oval. Antennae ; 1st 

 joint, club abrupt, fuscous-brown, 3rd black at the apex, 4th 

 entirely black. Fronotum deflected to the front, convex, the 

 posterior \ often clouded with dusky, sometimes defined into a 

 spot. JEhjtra ; Clavus and Cerium brown at the apex ; Mem- 

 Irane much broader than the corium, very broadly rounded pos- 

 teriorly ; nerves much bent at the base, the dark streaks between 

 them very broad posteriorly. Thighs gradually clavate ; club of 

 the 1st and 2nd pairs dusky, of the 3rd pair fuscous brown or 

 blackish, the apex pale. 



