504 ANTHOCORINA. 



slightly crenate. Elytra ; Qlavus aud Corium pale testaceous, the 

 hairs concolorous ; Cmieus piceous or pitchy black, punctured ; Mem- 

 hrane hyaline, light fuscous or whitish on the basal half. Sternum 

 piceous in the middle, ie^s testaceous ; thir/hs ; in the ^, the 3rd 

 pair pitchy brown ; in the $ , the 2nd and 3rd pairs black or piceous; 

 apex testaceous ; tibice ; 3rd pair sometimes piceous ; tarsi ; 3rd 

 joint piceous. 



Abdomen. — Genital segments beneath, piceous. 



Length, 1 line. 



On flowers of Anthemis Cotula. On the shore at Southampton ; 

 also at Croydon, Lee, and Plumstead Common, in September. 



Species 3. — Triphleps minutus. 



CiMEx MINUTUS, Lm. F. S. 941 (1761) ; S. N. 723, 61 (1767). 



Lyg^us — Fall. Mon. Cim. 73, 22 (1807). 



Anthocoms FHUTicuM, Fall. Hem. Suec. 68, 4 (1829) ; Flor, Rliyu. Liv. 



i, 653, 7 (1860). 

 Ehinauius minutus, Hahi, Wanz. i, 111, t. 17, fig. 60 (1831). 

 Anthocoris MiNUTA, Zett. lus. Lap. 266, 9 (1840). 



— coMFREssicoRNis, Sahib. Geoc. Ten. IT, 7 (1848). 



Triphleps minutus, Fleb. Europ. Hem. 141, 5 (1861). 



Black, shining, delicately haired. Antennce in the $ not much 

 thicker than in the $ ; 1st joint dusky yellowish ; 2nd joint 

 testaceous ; clavus and corium pale testaceous, distinctly punc- 

 tured ; cuneus more or less piceous. Legs yellow. 



Head smooth. Antennce tliin, almost filiform ; 1st joint yellow- 

 brown or dusky yellowish ; 2ud in the (^ scarcely thicker than the 

 others, testaceous, the apex sometimes dusky ; 3rd piceous ; 4th 

 rufo-piceous, base dusky. Eyes black. Ocelli red. Bostnim 

 piceous, last joint yellowish, with the apex black. 



Thorax. — Pronotum ; the callosity smooth, the remainder dis- 

 tinctly but not deeply punctured. Scutellum delicately punctured. 

 Elytra; Clavus and Corium distinctly punctured, pale testaceous, 

 the former brownish at the apex ; the hairs concolorous ; Cuneus 

 piceous, more or less dark ; Membrane hyaline or clouded with fus- 

 cous. Legs yellow : in the $ the 3rd pair of thighs black or 

 blackish, except the apex ; tarsi ; 3rd joint dusky at the apex ; claws 

 blackish. 



