PSALLIDiE. 407 



$ , Head reddish or brownish-yellow. Antennce jeWow ; 1st joint 

 black; 2nd yellow, apical 3rd black; 4th brownish, Bostrum 

 brownish-yellow, tip piceous. 



Thorax. — Fronotum reddish, or brownish-red, sometimes brown ; 

 sides reddisb. Scutellum brownish-yellow, finely wrinkled trans- 

 versely, anterior portion in the centre, and apex brown ; or red- 

 dish, with the extreme margin of the basal angles and apex brown. 

 Elytra; Glavus yell o wish -re d ; Corium ; anterior margin red; disk 

 pale reddish, space between tlie 1st nerve and the claval suture, with 

 a faint blackish shade ; 1st nerve and a line next the claval suture 

 reddish ; Ciineus red ; base next the anterior angle narrowly pale ; 

 Membrane black, iridescent ; between the apex of the cuneus and 

 the inner cell-nerve, a triangular, whitish patch, and between the 

 inner margin and the apex of the outer cell another larger one, 

 generally continued into a broad, curved streak in the centre of the 

 disk ; inner marginal nerve blackish ; cell-nerves orange-yellow,' 

 outer one exterioi'ly margined with black ; inner cell black, outer 

 one at the apex broadly blackish. Sternum brown, clothed with pale 

 golden-yellow hairs. Legs ; coxce and fulcra pale yellowish, the 

 former exteriorly brown ; thighs pale reddish ; tibiae yellowish, base 

 reddish, apex narrowly blackish ; with small black spots, and short, 

 stout, erect, spinose hairs ; ta7'si yellowish ; 1st joint brownish ; 

 3rd and claws black. 



Abdomen ; upperside pitchy brown ; underside brown, clothed 

 with short, fine, golden-yeUow hairs ; genital segments brownish-red. 



Length, 2 lines. 



This species bears a strong resemblance at first sight to Sthenarus 

 Hotermundi, but its longer and different coloured antenna} and 

 cuneus will at once separate it from that species. It appears to be 

 intermediate between A. ambiguus and A. variabilis, but it is less 

 than the former, and considerably larger than the latter. From 

 ambiguus the ^ may be distinguished by the pale 3rd and 4th 

 joints of the antennae, and the $ from the 1st joint being entirely 

 black. In A. variabilis the antennae are pale. 



An abundant species in June, and beginning of July, at Eltham, 

 on apple trees. 



