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and with a central longitudinal channel. Scutellum yellow. Elytra 

 diaphanous : Clavns and Corium very pale yellowish-white ; anterior 

 margin of the latter somewhat darker ; apex of the 1st nerve yel- 

 lowish ; within the apex of the 1st and 2nd nerves frequently a 

 brownish spot ; Ciuieus very pale yellowish-white, apex very narrowly 

 yellowish ; Membrane pale gray, iridescent, with an oval fuscous 

 spot near the apex of the anterior margin ; inner marginal nerve 

 yellowish ; outer cell-nerve brown, apex and inner cell-nerve yel- 

 lowish. Legs pale yellowish- white, clothed with short, stiff, pale 

 brown hairs ; tliighs next the apex with 2 short, longitudinal rows 

 of brown spots ; tihice with a few, long, somewhat spinose, black 

 hairs ; tarsi yellow, 3rd joint brown ; claws reddish. 



Abdomen yellowish, clothed with short yellow hairs. 



Length, 2i— 2|- lines. 



Very frequently the elytra are without darker markings, and the 

 5" with undeveloped elytra, without cimeus or membrane. JSTot un- 

 common at Folkstone and Lewisham, in July, by sweeping amongst 

 Epilohium, in damp places. 



Genus 5. — Macrolophus, Fieb. 

 Linear, narrow, delicate. 



Head viewed from above pentagonal, deflected in front, produced 

 into a neck behind the eyes, sides of the neck convex ; Crown verj 

 convex ; Clypeus convex, apex in a line with the base of the an- 

 tennae ; antenniferous processes very short, almost in a line with the 

 middle of the eyes ; Face short, central lobe somewhat stout, 

 convex, side lobes short, narrow, slightly rounded outwardly. 

 Antennce about as long as the body ; 1st joint shorter than the head 

 and neck, almost cylindrical, narrowed at the base ; 2nd very slightly 

 clavate, 2\ times as long as the 1st ; 3rd as long as the 2nd ; 4th 

 I as long as the 3rd, and slightly thicker. Eyes small, slightly 

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

 oval. Bostru7n vevLdhmg to the 3rd pair of coxae ; 1st joint reaching 

 to the xyphus of the prosterniun. 



Thorax. — Pronotum trapeziform, about If times as broad across the 

 posterior margin as long ; behind the anterior margin a transverse 

 channel forming a collar, and behind the latter 2 callosities ; sides 



