PHYTOCORID^. 299 



spots on eacli side, a little below the base ; apex black ; tarsi aud 

 claws black. 



Length, 4 Hues. 



Very plentiful by sweeping amongst nettles, grass, &c., iu woods 

 and fields. It has been taken at Highgate, Lee, Eltham, and "Wey- 

 bridge in June aud July. 



Family 4.— PHYTOCORIDtE. 



Genus 1. — Miridius, Fieh. 



Longish oval ; viewed from the side almost a parallelogram. 



Head; Crown horizontal, slightly convex, almost level with the 

 upper margin of the eyes ; Glypeus short, convex ; apex in a line 

 with the short antenniferous processes, the latter in a line with the 

 middle of the eyes; Face; central lobe produced, long, stout, 

 convex; side lobes short, rounded outwardly. Antennce ; 1st joint 

 long, stout, somewhat cylindrical, narrowed at the base, as long as 

 the pronotum and ^ the head ; 2nd, 1-^ times longer than the 1st ; 

 perceptibly thinner, and slightly stoutest at the base ; 3rd and 4th 

 almost filiform, 3rd i as long as the 2nd. Eyes small, somewhat 

 prominent ; viewed from above hemispherical ; from the side, short, 

 oval. Bostrum long, slender, almost reaching to the middle of 

 the abdomen ; 1st joint stout, reaching to the end of the xyphus of 

 the prosteruum. 



Thorax. — Fronotum short, trapezoidal, with a transverse channel 

 in front, forming a narrow collar ; posterior margin twice as broad 

 as the anterior one ; anterior margin straight, angles acute ; sides 

 straight ; hinder angles short, rounded, slightly raised ; posterior 

 margin almost straight, rounded towards, and at the hinder angles ; 

 disk flattish convex, deflected to the head. Scutellum triangular, 

 almost equilateral, raised above the clavus, with a transverse channel 

 near the base ; anterior portion flat in the middle, deflected to the 

 transverse channel ; hinder portion convex. 'Elytra longer than the 

 abdomen ; Clavus convex, deflected to the corium ; Coriiim horizontal, 

 flattish convex, slightly deflected at the junction with the cuneus 

 and membrane ; Caucus long, triangular, somewhat narrow. Sternum : 

 Frosternum ; xyphus triangular, equilateral, sides margined, apex 



