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on each nerve at its base a very minute liglit-brown dot ; between 

 the 3rd and 4th nerves, at the base, a large, oval, black-brown spot, 

 and between the 2nd and 3rd, and 3rd and 4th nerves, on the pos- 

 terior margin, a short, black-brown dash, broad outwardly and 

 diminishing inwardly to a point ; in the $ these dashes are 

 scarcely perceptible. Sternum brown-ochreous, or dark brown finely 

 punctured. Legs pale ochreous ; thighs strong, gradiially clavate, 

 the club thick, black, the apex piceous; the 1st pair sometimes 

 piceous only on the sides ; tarsi; 1st and 2nd joints deep ochreous, 

 3rd black. 



Abdomen above dusky ; beneath strongly punctured ; in the ^ 

 dark brown, with a central line and the sides pale ; in the ? pale 

 ochreous, with a paler central line. Genital segments beneath, in 

 the (J the side processes short, curved inwards so that the inter- 

 vening space appears round ; iu the $ the processes form a longish 

 broad, obtuse point, with a notch just perceptible at the slightly 

 narrower end ; the outer sides almost imperceptibly constricted. 



Length, 2 — 2|- lines. 



Eare. On bare, sloping ground at Mickleham, in moss at the 

 roots of Teticrium scorodoniiim, and in tufts of grass, and at Bexley 

 "Wood (Scott) in October. 



Species 6. — Berytus minor. 



Berytus minor, H. Schf. Norn. Ent. i, 43 (1S35) ; Fanz. F. G. 135, 7 ; 

 Fieh. Wien. Eut. Monats. iii, 206, 7 (1859) ; Europ. 

 Hem. 211, 7 (1861). 

 — (Neides) minor, Flor, Rbyii. Liv. i, 204, 1 (1860). 



Ochreous. Frontal process above obtusely pointed, sideways semi- 

 circular. AntenncB ; 1st joint, club rather gradual, stout, short, 

 black ; 2nd brownish towards the apex ; 3rd black at the apex. 

 Fronotimi flat, depressed in the middle ; side keels continued 

 round the hinder angles, which are rounded and depressed ; pos- 

 terior margin nearly straight. Thighs gradually clavate, the club 

 blackish-brown, generally on the sides only. Genital segments, 

 in the ,^ , the processes stout, obtuse, parallel. 



Head ochreous-brown, finely punctured ; Frontal process seen from 

 above, narrow, slightly convex, obtusely pointed, and with fine white 

 downy hairs ; viewed sideways almost semicircular ; the side processes 



