162 BERYTINA. 



margins and central keel whitish. Scutellum pale oehreous. Elytra 

 shining, diaphanous ; Clavus and Corium with deep, transverse, cel- 

 lular punctures between the nerves ; apex black, posterior margin 

 with 4 or 5 black or brown spots, sometimes very indistinct ; Mem- 

 Irane finely crenate ; the apex of the 2nd nerve black-brown ; the 

 space between the 2nd and 3rd nerves with several black-brown 

 granular dots in a row ; the 3rd and 4th nerves black-brown. Sternum 

 black, with fine appressed white hairs, forming a line on the margins 

 of the rostral channel, and another exterior to it. Legs yellow ; thighs 

 with the club black granulose-punctate in rows ; tihice black at the 

 apex ; tarsi black. 



Abdomen above, at the base and centre, black ; Connexivum oehre- 

 ous, with a brown line at the base. Underside finely granulose- 

 punctate, dark brown, lighter in the centre, with 3 indistinct lines, 

 and the margin of the segments with whitish spots ; sides darker. 



Length, 4^ lines. 



Local. Deal, under Erodium cicutariwn ; Folkestone, under 

 Ononis; in August and September. 



Bpecies 2. — Neides Tipularius. 



CiMEX TipuLAMus, Lin. F. S. 973 (1761) ; S. N. i, 733, 120 (17G7); 



Schrk. E. B. ii, 98, 1168 (1801). 

 Geuris — lah. E. S. iv, 192, 18 (1794) ; Fall. Mon. Clm. 



118, 7 (3807). 

 Beeytus — Fab. S. R. 204, 1 (1803); Wolff, Ic. Cim. 204, 



t. 20, fig. 198 (ISll); Fall. Hem. Suec. 165, 1 



(1829) ; ScMll. Beitr. 56, 1, t. 7, fig. 3 a (1S29) ; 



Eahn, Wanz. i, 133, t. 21, fig. 68 (1S31) ; Bnrm. 



Haudb. ii, 313, 1 (1835). 

 Neides — Lat. Geu. iii, 120, 1 (1807) ; Oliv. Eiic. viii, 163, 



1, pi. 374, fig. 1 (1811); Spin. Hem. 204, 1 



(1837) ; Am. et Sen. Hem. 233, 1 (1843); Fieb. 



Wien. Eut. Monats. iii, 203, 3 (1859); Europ. 



Hem. 209, 3 (1861). 

 Beeytus (Sphalerocoeis) tipulaeius, Flor, Bliyn. Liv. i, 206. 3 



(18G0). 



Oehreous ; pronotum long-trapezoidal, convex. 



Head above ochreous-brown, finely punctured ; the sides dark 

 brown, with whitish wavy hairs ; beneath black. Antennce with 



