PSALLIDiE. 405 



Legs ; coxce black ; aj^ex reddish-yellow ; fulcra reddish-yellow, 

 apex exteriorly brownish ; tliigTis black or pitchy brown, apex 

 reddish or reddish-yellow ; t'lbice yellowish, brownish, or reddish, 

 apex narrowly black ; with lai-ge black spots, and stout, erect, 

 spinose, black hairs ; tarsi ; 1st and 3rd joints black ; 2nd brown ; 

 claws black. 



Length, 2\ lines. 



? reddish or brownish-red, clothed with fine, short, depressed, 

 golden-yellow hairs. 



Head. — Crown ; hinder margin yellowish ; at the hinder margin 

 of each eye a small black spot, and between the eyes 2 larger ones, 

 frequently joined to the former, and continued into a broad streak 

 extending to the apex of the clypeus ; Face ; apex of the central 

 and side lobes black. Antenna: reddish or yellowish ; 1st joint black 

 at the base ; 2nd at the base narrowly, and apex broadly, black ; 3rd 

 and 4th brownish-yellow, base of each narrowly black ; or 3rd and 

 4th brown, 4th palest. Eyes black. Bostrum piceous. 



Thorax. — Pronotum ; callosities black ; posterior margin more or 

 less broadly black. Elytra : Clavus ; base and apex of the inner 

 margin black ; Corium next the apex, between the 1st nerve and 

 claval suture, with a large, triangular, brown patch ; Cuneus red, 

 base more or less broadly yellowish or whitish ; Memhrane as in the 

 ^ ; cell-nerves yellowish ; cells yellowish ; apex of the outer cell 

 broadly, and the inner one black. Sternum ; sides red ; Meso- 

 sternum ; outer margin frequently blackish ; centre pitchy brown. 

 Legs ; coxce and fulcra yellow, the latter brownish exteriorly ; 

 thighs red ; 2ud and 3rd pairs with a longitudinal row of spots 

 along the middle of the underside ; tibiw reddish or reddish-yellow ; 

 apex black ; with large black spots, and stout, erect, spinose hairs ; 

 ta7'si as in the ^ . 



Abdomen ; upperside brown ; connexivum and genital segments 

 red ; underside red, clothed with short, golden-yellow hairs ; base in 

 the centre, brown. 



Length, 2^ lines. 



A common species on birch trees at Darenth and elsewhere, in 

 June. Scarborough, (Wilkinson). 



