PSALLIDiE. 413 



2nd uerve and the claval suture frequently extending nearly to the 

 base ; Cimeus pale grayish-white ; Membrane fuscous, iridescent ; 

 below the cells, and next the anterior margin a large whitish patch 

 divided by a narrow, transverse, brownish-black streak immediately 

 below the apex of the cuneus ; below the apex of the cells a brownish- 

 black spot generally joined to the transverse streak ; cell-nerves 

 whitish ; apex of both cells more or less broadly brownish-black. 

 Legs yellowish-white ; tliiglis spotted with brown towards the apex ; 

 3rd pair on the underside frequently with 3 short rows ; on the 

 upper margin, near the apex, a lai'ge brown-black spot, sometimes 

 divided, in which is set an erect, black, spinose hair ; tihice whitish ; 

 basal half with brown spots ; the erect, somewhat spinose hairs 

 black ; tarsi yellowish ; 3rd joint at the apex, and claws, brown. 



Abdomen ; underside white, clothed with yellow hairs ; genital seg- 

 ments red, or orange-red. 



Length, 1^ line. 



Common on dwarf sallows at Deal, in August. 



Species 3. — Psallus sanguineus. 



Lyg^us sanguineus, Fab. E. S. iv, 175, IM (1794) ; S. R. 238, 179 (1803). 

 PuYTOCOKis — Fall. Hem. Suec. i, 102, 48 (1829). 

 Capsus — H. Schf. Norn. Ent. i, 51 (1835) ; Wauz. iii, 70, 



268 (1836); Meyer, Caps. 75, 49 (1843);. 

 Sahib. Geoc. Fen. 107, 3G (1848). 

 — (Capsus) sanguineus, Flor, Khyii. Liv. i, 588, 71 (1860). 

 PsALLUs SANGUINEUS, Fieb. Europ. Hem. 305, 3 (1861). 



E-osy, clothed with fine, depressed, yellow hairs, disposed in some- 

 what irregular patches and sparingly intermixed with somewhat 

 erect, black ones ; Cuneus pale grayish-white. 



Head. — Antennce yeUow, 1st joint at the base and before the apex 

 with a blackish ring. Rostrum yellow, tip blackish. 



Thorax — Fronotum in front to behind the callosities frequently 

 yellowish. Scutellum ; apex yellowish- white. Elytra: Clavus ; 

 nerve very narrowly margined with yellowish ; Corium ; nerves 

 very narrowly margined with yellowish ; Cuneus pale grayish- 

 white ; Membrane fuscous brown, iridescent ; below the cells, and 

 next the anterior margin, a large whitish patch, divided by a short, 



