IDOLOCORlDiE. 377 



yellowisb-white, generally with 2 browu punctures on each side ; 

 callosities frequently reddish, their posterior margins, more or less, 

 and a central line widened into a triangular patch, white, or yellow- 

 ish-white. Scutellum black ; basal angles and a central streak some- 

 times reaching beyond the transverse channel, reddish ; sides with a 

 triangular white spot. Elytra somewhat diaphanous ; CI amis with 

 a row of brown punctures within the inner margin, and another 

 within the nerve ; Corium ; anterior margin and a short curved 

 streak at the apex, brown-black ; within the apex of the 1st nerve a 

 roundish brown spot ; disk punctures somewhat disposed in striae ; 

 posterior margin reddish ; Memhrane blackish, iridescent, with a 

 black or brownish-black triangular spot below the apex of the 

 c uncus generally extending a little way within the inner cell, and 

 immediately followed by a somewhat square pale spot ; midway be- 

 tween the apex of the cells and the anterior margin, a roundish dark 

 spot ; cell-nerves brown ; apex of the inner cell brown. Legs 

 greenish, clothed with short, stiff, brown hairs ; tliiglis ; base on the 

 upper side, with 2 short black or brown streaks, and two short 

 longitudinal rows, generally consisting of 4 or 5 large brown 

 spots, next the apex ; tibice with large remote brown spots, in each 

 of which is set a somewhat spinose, black hair ; knees and apex 

 of all the pairs narrowly brown; tarsi; 3rd joint brown; claws 

 reddish. 



Abdomen ; underside brown, clothed with short, fine, yeEow hairs, 

 margins of the segments more or less yellow, or frequently greenish- 

 yellow ; sides brown. 



Length, l-i line. 



A most abundant species on Ononis spinosa at Deal and Folkstone 

 in September. 



Species 3. — Idolocoris globulifer. 



Cafsus globulifer, Fall. Hem. Suec. i, 124, 18 (1829); Ze/l. Ins. 

 Lap. 279, 9 (1839). 



— ALiENUS, H. Schf. Wanz. iii, 53, fig. 271 (1836) ; Meyer, Caps. 



57 (1843) ; Kirschb. Caps. 48, 34 (1855). 



— CYLLOCOROiDES, Scholtz, Arb. uud Verand. 133, 64 (1846). 



— (Capsus) globulifer, Flor, Kh^n. Liv. i, 512, 25 (1860). 

 Bkachycer^a GLOBULiFERA, Fieb. Europ. Rem. 325, 4 (1861). 



