MIRIUii:. 289 



Sjjecie-s 5. — Miris longicornis. 



MiRis LOXGicoRNis, Fall. Hern, i, 129, 3 (1829); //. Sc///. Wauz. iii, 43, 

 fig. 258 (1836) ; ^leyei; Caps. 37, 7 (1813) ; SaM. 

 Geoc. Ten. 87, 5 (1848); KirscB. C.ips. 32, 2 

 (1855); Flor, Rliyn. Liv. i, 434, 8 (I860). 



Meg.vlocer.ii:.\ — Feed. Europ. Hem. 243 (1S61). 



Elongate, linear. Yellowish-green. Aulennce considerably longer 

 than the body. Legs; 2nd pair shoi'test ; 3rd almost twice 

 as long as the 2ad; iihice straight. 



Head.— Crown convex, with a deep central channel terminating 

 almost in a line with the apes of the antenniferous processes ; CJij- 

 ])eus ; extreme apex slightly reflexed. Antennce considerably longer 

 than the bod}^, yellowisli or brownish-yellow ; 1st joint as long as 

 the pronotum and scutellum together, clothed with short black 

 hairs ; 2nd for about f its length clothed with short black hairs ; 

 3i'd and 4th generally brownish. Eijes somewhat prominent. Ros- 

 trum yellowish-green, reaching to the 3rd pair of coxse ; tip blackish. 



Thorax. — Fronotum with a more or less distinct transverse channel 

 behind the concave anterior margin, angles acute ; sides slightly 

 concave, very narrowly margined from behind the transverse channel ; 

 hinder angles short, acute, slightly raised ; posterior margin slightly 

 concave across the scutellum ; disk finely shagreened, brownish or 

 brownish-yellow, margins and central keel yellow ; callosities with a 

 deep fovea in the centre. Scutellum brownish-yell oav with a pale- 

 yeliow central line ; basal angles with a deep fovea. Elytra : 

 Coriuin ; inner margin of the 1st nerve whitish ; Membrane gray, 

 with a slight purple tinge, faintly iridescent, below the inner cell, 

 and extending to the apex, a paler patch ; cell-nerves yellowish- 

 white ; inner cell pale. Legs greenish-yellow ; 2nd pair shortest ; 

 3rd almost twice as long as the 2nd, clothed with very short black 

 hairs; tihi(B brownish at the apex, with lougish, erect, somewhat 

 spinose, blaclv hairs ; tarsi and cJaics blackisli, base of the 1st joint 

 of the former brown. 



Length, -4 lines. 



Not an uncommon species by sweeping and beating plants growing 

 on hedge-banks. It has been taken at Lee, Bexley, Dartford, and 

 Mickleham, in June and July. 



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