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yellow. Scufellum finely wrinkled transversely, and slightly de- 

 pressed before the apex ; base to, or a very little beyond the transverse 

 channel, black ; remainder yellow. Ehjtra ; Clavus convex ; some- 

 what deeply, irregularly, and coarsely punctured, with a short 

 yellow streak at the apex, between the nerve and the suture ; Corium 

 thickly punctured ; anterior margin throughout its entire length 

 yellow; base between the 1st and 2nd nerves, as far as in a line 

 with the apex of the clavus streak, and a short streak at the apical 

 inner angle, forming with the clavus streak an X-shaped patch, 

 yellow ; Cuneus orange-yellow ; apex black ; Memhrajie blackish ; 

 below the apex of the cuneus a somewhat round pale spot ; inner 

 marginal nerve and cell-nerves black. Legs black or pitchy black ; 

 all the thiglis generally with a longitudinal row of spots on both 

 sides; 1st and 2nd pairs frequently pitchy yellow ; ^fJ/te yellowisb, 

 clothed with very short, fine, brown hairs, and a few longer spinose 

 ones ; apex piceous ; tarsi piceous ; 3rd joint black ; claics brown. 

 Abdomen ; underside ; (^ black ; $ with a streak along the sides, 

 and the margin of the connexivum narrowly yellowish. 



Length, S\ lines. 



This species appears to be somewhat scarce. Dr. Power has taken 

 it at Thornton Reservoir, Leicestershire, in July. 



iSjjecies 6. — DERiEocoRis binotatus. 



LYG.T5US BINOTATUS, Fab. E. S. iv, 172, 130 (1791); S. E. 235, 159 (1S03). 

 Phytocoeis — Fall. Hem. Suec. i, 78, 3 (1829). 

 Capsus — H. ScJif. Wanz. iii, 17, f]g. 296 (1836) ; Mei/er, Caps. 



92, 78 (1813). 



— (Dek^ocoris) binotatus, Kirschh. Caps. 59, 56 (1855). 



— (Capsus) — Flor, Rbyn. Liv. i, 499, IS (I860). 

 Oncognathus — Fieb, Europ. Hem. 216 (1S61). 



Elongate, narrow, almost parallel. Yellowish or greenish-yellowj 

 clothed with fine, short, whitish hairs; Antenna somewhat filiform. 



Sead with 2 spots on the crown at the hinder margin of the eyes, 

 a narrow streak along the inside of each eye, and the margin of the 

 clypeus, piceous ; Face vertical ; central lobe convex, shortish, black 

 or piceous ; side lobes short, stoutish, narrowly piceous on the iiiner 

 margin. Antennce ; 1st joint dusky green, clothed with fine, short, 

 black hairs ; 2nd, 3rd, and 4th brownish. Eijes large, semicircular 

 above ; viewed from the side, oval. Bostriim reaching to the 3rd 



