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spot ; Memhrane white, transparent, tlie nerves white, iuterrupted 

 by black sti'eaks. Wings white, transparent. Sternum in the 

 centre black. Legs luteous ; tliighs strongly granulated, and on 

 the upper and underside finely serrated, black ; tilicB luteous, the 

 apex black ; tarsi ; 1st joint luteous, 2nd and 3rd piceous. ' 



Abdomen above, the 1st 3 segments entirely, and the sides of the 

 4th broadly, black ; the 5th and 6th segments, and the centre of the 

 4th orange or luteous. Connexiviim above and beneath luteous, 

 with the junction of the segments and a spot on the centre of the 

 margin of each black. Underside luteous or reddish, with longitu- 

 dinal black lines, the posterior margin of each segment with small 

 white spots. 



Length, 3 — 34^ lines. 



Deal ; under the leaves of Erodium cicutarium, in August and 

 September. " Braunton Burrows, N. Devon, Septembei"" (^Curtis). 



Species 2. — Pseudopklceus nubilus. 



CoRETJs NUBILUS, Fall. Moii. Cim. 58, 4 (1807); Hem. Suec. 39, 5 

 (1829) ; Ahrens, F. lus. Eur. 6, 22 ; Schill. Beitr. 

 i, 47, 10, t. 4, fig. 5 (1829). 



Aeenocoris nubilus, Hakn, Wanz. ii, 111, t. 63, fig. 191 (1834). 



PsEUDOPHLffius — H. Schf. Wanz. vi, 4 (1842). 



Bathysolen — Fieb. Europ. Hem. 216 (1861) ; Stal, K. Vet. 

 Akad. Fork. 206, 2 (1862). 



Dull red-brovni, the sides of the pronotum nearly straight, reflexed, 

 and whitish in front. 



Head. — Grown almost quadrate, the neck short, red-brown, with 

 darker brown granulations. Antennce ; 1st joint dull brown, fiuely 

 granulated ; 2nd and 3rd duU yellowish, almost smooth ; 4th black, 

 base very finely granulated, upper half with appressed gray hairs. 

 Uges and Ocelli brown. Bostrum piceous ; the last two joints 

 black. 



Thorax.— Pronotum subtrapezoidal ; side margins reflexed, granu- 

 lated, yellowish-white on the 1st half; hinder angles broad, obtuse, 

 raised, with a shallow channel within ; disk flat, ochreous, covered 

 with small black granules, except 4 or 5 lines of the ground colour 

 lying longitudinally. Scutellum pointed, a little constricted before 

 the apex, luteous, fading into whitish at the apex, with a dark spot 

 in the centre of the base. Elytra ; Clavus and Corium ochreous. 



