MIRID^. 297 



in eoinp'uij \vit:v dohhrattos, ia July, and lias been found at Wcy^ 

 bridge, Eltliam, &c. The developed form, especially of the ? , is 

 somewhat scarce. 



Species 3. — Lopomohphus dolobratus. 



CniEX DOLOBRATUS, LUi. S. N. V, 730, 103 (1767); Scop. Eat. Carn. 135, 

 393 (17G3) ; Schran'k, Euum. 285, 5i9 (1781). 



MiRIS ABBREVIATUS, Wolff, Ic. Cilll. IIG, 110, p. 11, fig. 110, «— /(ISOO). 



— LATERALIS, Wolff, Ic. Cim. 115, 109, p. 11, fig. 109, a—h (ISOO) 



Fab. S. R. 251, 3 (1803). 



— DOLOBRATUS, Tab. S. II. 253, 1 (1803) ; Tall. Hem. Suec. i, 128, 1 



(1839) ; Hahn, Waiiz. ii, 75, fig. 160 (1831) ; Zell. 

 Ins. Lap. 280, 1 (1839) ; ScUll. Arb. und Veriiud. 52 

 (1845) ; Flor, Rhyn. Liv. i, 437, 10 (1860). 

 Peytocoris dolobratus, ^«/v«. Ilandb. ii, 267, 5 (1835). 

 Lopus — //. Schf. Wanz. iii, 45, figs. 261 & 2G2 (1836) ; 



Meiier, Caps. 38, 1 (1843); Sahlh. Geoc. Een. 

 88, 1 (1848); Kirschb. Caps. 36, 11 (1855). 

 Lettopterna dolobrata, Tieb. Europ. Hem. 244 (1861). 



(J, in developed examples reddish-orange, brownish-yellow, or dusky 

 yellow. Somewhat more thickly clothed, and the hairs longer 

 than inferrugatus. 



Head black ; Crown with two streaks on tlie inside of the eyes, 

 terminating at the base of the antenniferous processes, a short line 

 down the centre of the clypeus, and two spots at the back of the head, 

 clear yellow ; Face black ; the central lobe margined with, and the 

 side lobes in front, yellowish. Antemice black, as long as tlie body ; 

 1st joint cylindrical, as long as the pronotum, gently swelled out on 

 the inside beyond the base and somewhat curved ; 2ud cylindrical, 

 3 times the length of the 1st ; 3rd more than half the length of the 

 2nd ; 4th half the length of the 3rd. 



Thorax. — PronoUim black ; a somewhat fusiform central line ex- 

 panding into a wider triangular spot anteriorly, the centre of the 

 anterior margin, and the sides (broadest at the hinder angles) yellow. 

 ScuteUum black, a central line generally widened at the depression 

 into a triangular patch which extends to the apex, yellow. Wytra : 



