496 ANTHOCORTNA. 



thfe traiisverse depression. Scutellum smooth, posteriorly CTen&te. 

 Elytra smooth, without {^et-ceptible hairs except dn the cimetiS, pale 

 yellowish- white ; Corium ; iaiiteHor margiri, as far as the ctlneus, 

 much reflexed, incrassated at the end of the embolium ; Claviis on 

 the inner margin piceous, morB broadly towards the apex ; Emholium 

 towards the end piceous, on the apex inwardly, usually a yellowish 

 spot ; OuHeUs delicately punctured, finely pubescent, the oUter 

 margin orange, the posterior margin broadly piceous, or sometimes 

 the entire surface suffused with pitchy black ; Memhrane yellowish- 

 white, the posterior 3rd fuscous-black, the colour extending broadly 

 up the centre, but leaving the base and a large spot on each side 

 clear. Sternum delicately crenate ; margin of the segments yel- 

 lowish. Legs paie Orarlge ; Hilghs ; 1st pair sometimes with a black 

 streak on the upper side ; 2nd and 3rd pairs, sometimes black, 

 except the base and apex ; sometimes ^rd pair only with a black 

 ring ; tihicB brown or black at the base ; tarsi ; 3rd joint piceous or 

 black. 



Abdomen beneath pitchy black, delicately crenate, with fine yel- 

 lowish pubescence. 



Length, 1| — 2 lines. 



Common on trees and bushes from June to October, also among 

 dry leaves in winter and spring. 



Individuals of this species, and also of A. nemoralis, are often 

 found in the bladdery mines made on the leaves of oaks by the larvae 

 of the genus Lithocolletis (Lepidoptera) ; and Mr. Stainton once saw 

 an Antlwcoris outside one of such mines, with its rostrum thrust 

 through the loosened lower cuticle of the leaf, sucking the juices of 

 a larva within. 



Species S.^^Anthocoris nemOralis. 



ACANTHIA NEMORALIS, Fab. E. S. iv, 76, 35 (1791). 



CiMEX (gallakum XJlmi), Be G. Mem. ill, 279, 23 (l7'73). 



Salda nemoralis, Fa/j. S. K 116, 15 (1803). 



Lyg.eus Austeiacus, Fab. S. R. 239, 181 (1S03). 



Anthocoris NEMORALIS, Fall. Hem. Succ. 67, 3 (1829); Flor, Rhyn. 



Liv. i, 650, 4 (1860); Fteb. Europ. Hem. 



137, 2 (1861). 



Black, with fine appressed, yellowish hairs ; 2nd joint of the antennd 

 broadly yellow-brown in the middle ; side margins of the 



