MIRIDiE. 295 



The above description has been made from a single example taken 

 by tlie Eev. T. A. Marshall, in the New Forest, but we cannot give 

 the date. Kirschbaum says June and July. 



Species 2. — Lopomorphus ferrugatus. 



MiRis FEERUGATUS, Fall. Hem. Suec. i, 129, 2 (1S29) ; ScJiill. Arb. und 



Veraud. 52 (1845); Flor, llhyu. Liv. i, 439, 11 



(1S60). 

 Lopus — H. Schf. Wauz. iii, 46, fig. 263 (1S36) ; Mei/ei\ Caps. 



39, 2 (1843) ; Sahib. Geoc. Feu. 89, 2 (1848) ; 



Kimhb. Caps. 36, 12 (1S55). 



The (^ in developed examples brownisli-pink ; ? pale pink, clothed 

 with long, fine yellow or brownish-red hairs. 



^ Head black ; Croicii with two streaks, often extending from 

 the base, along the inside of the eyes, terminating at the base of 

 the autenniferous processes, and a narrow line down the centre of 

 the clypeus, clear yellow ; Face black, sides of all the lobes yel- 

 lowish. Anteimce piceous, clothed with short, stout, pitchy-black 

 hairs, especially the 1st joint, which is as long as the pronotum ; 

 the base and a broad streak on the out.side, black ; 2nd cylindrical, 

 2-J- times as long as the 1st, in the middle reddish-brown ; 3rd pitchy- 

 black, about f the length of the 2nd ; 4th pitchy-black, half as long 

 as the 3rd. Sosirum brownish or brownish-yellow, tip piceous. 



Tlwrax. — Fronotum anteriorly black ; posteriorly reddish ; anterior 

 margin in the centre yellowish ; sides yellowish-white, broadest at the 

 hinder angles ; disk with a large, triangular, dusky-yellowish patchy 

 its apex at the anterior margin. Scutellum black, with a reddish- 

 brown spot at the base on either side the yellow central line, equi- 

 distant from it and the basal angles ; frequently the aj^ical half of the 

 central line is enlarged into a triangle, and the two basal spots joined 

 by a yellow line. Elytra : Claviis ; inner margin pitchy-black, a little 

 widest at the base ; Corhim ; anterior margin, as far as the cuneus, pale 

 yellow ; Cuneus long and narrow ; Membrane gray, the inner marginal 

 nerve pitchy-black ; cell-nerves pale brownish or yellowish ; a little 

 below the cuneiis is a dusky brown streak. Legs ochreous-brown, 

 clothed with short black hairs ; tliic/lis with black spots more or less 



