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hair ; tarsi yellowish, apex of the terminal joint black ; sometimes 

 the 1st joint is slightly piceous ; claws reddish -brown. 



Abdomen underneath dark reddish-brown. 



^ , length, 3 — 3^ lines. 



The ? is oval in form ; the elytra extend but a little way beyond 

 the abdomen, and in consequence the insect has a stunted appear- 

 ance. 



?, length, 2i— 3 lines. 



This species has, no donbt, hitherto been confounded by collec- 

 tors in this country with F. Ulnii., to which it bears a great likeness. 

 The following charactei's will at once enable any one to separate 

 them. In P. ZUmi the antennae are much shorter than in P. divpr- 

 f/eiis ; the head and tliorax have a pale line down their centres ; the 

 corium has a distinct, large, pale, rhomboidal spot adjoining the 

 ciineus and the hinder thighs have always 2 broadish yellow-white, 

 irregular streaks, almost forming bands. 



It is widely distributed, and has been taken at Newport, South 

 Wales, Darenth AVood, amongst black-currant bushes, and other 

 places in the London district, by beating, in July and August. 



Species 7. — Phytocoius TJi.mt. 



CiMEX Ulmi, Li, I. S. N. 503, 110 (1767). 



MiKis — /V^/a S. R. 2.5G, 17 (1803). 



Phytocoeis Uuti, //. Schf. Wanz. iii, 9, fig. 234 (1836) ; Mei/er, Caps. 

 ■13, 2 (1813); Kirschl. Caps. 40, 20 (is'35) ; Flor, 

 llhyn. Liv. i, 116, 3 (1860) & ii, 593, 1 (1861) ; 

 Fieb. Europ. Hem. 250, 5 (1861). 



Brownish, brownish-red, or reddish-yellow, thickly clothed with short 

 yellow hairs. 

 Head. — Cron-n convex, with a central line, and generally the mar- 

 gins of the clypeus and a line on the inside of each eye, pale yellow. 

 JntniiHP ; basal joint brown or brownish-pink, sparingly clothed 

 with short, fine, almost erect, yellow or brown hairs ; on the 

 upperside with pale yellow spots, and generally, on the under- 

 side at the base, with a short piceous streak ; 2nd and 3rd joints 

 yellowish-brown ; 2nd at the base pale yellow, immediately fol- 

 lowed by a narrow blackish or brownish band ; 4th piceous ; occa- 

 sionally the apex of the 2nd joint narrowly, and the apical half 



