494 ANTHOCOUINA. 



lowish-brown, rather dull ; Corium black or brown-black, slightly 

 shining (sometimes the anterior margin broadly whitish-brown, ex- 

 tending still more broadly on the cuueus) ; close to, but not in- 

 cluding the base, a broad, outwardly widened, transverse whitish 

 band, posteriorly merging into the ground-colour (sometimes dimin- 

 ished to a spot). Embolium at the end whitish; Cuneus deep 

 black, with fine, distant, appressed, whitish hairs ; Membrane black, 

 with a large, rounded, white spot at the outer and inner basal 

 angles ; more rarely entirely whitish : the $ often with the elytra 

 undeveloped. Legs; thighs black; tibice orange, apex sometimes 

 dusky ; tarsi brown or black. 



Abdomen shining. 



Length, li line. 



Fieber remarks of this species, that " it very much resembles 

 AntTiocoris pratensis, Fab., but is distinguished by the very sharp 

 side margins of the pronotum, the sculpture of the pronotum and 

 elytra, and the marking of the membrane. 



Rather scarce ; chiefly on oaks and beeches ; Purley, near 

 Croydon ; Darenth Wood ; Mickleham ; Hurst Wood, Tunbridge 

 Wells ; and Southampton Common, in August and September. 



Genus 3. — Anthocoris, Fall. 



Head broad ; Grown short, convex, widened before the eyes ; 

 Face \ the length of the head, central lobe broad, the end obtuse ; 

 side lobes very short and narrow ; antenniferous processes very short. 

 Antennce slender; 1st joint cylindrical, reaching to the end of the 

 face ; 2nd nearly 3 times longer than the 1st, gradually a little 

 thickened to the apex ; 3rd and 4th fusiform ; 3rd, frds the length of 

 the 2nd; 4th rather longer than the 3rd. JEyes large, semioval, 

 inserted near the base of the head. Ocelli prominent, distant, 

 inserted close to the base of the eyes. Mostrum reaching to the end 

 of the metasternum ; 1st joint very short. 



Thorax. — Pronotum long-trapeziform, in front contracted to a 

 broad, slightly convex ring ; anterior margin straight ; sides nearly 

 straight, or slightly sinuate, the margins very narrow, sharp, and 

 reflexed on the 1st \ only ; hinder angles obtuse ; posterior margin 

 very concave ; disk on the 1st \ with a slight, transverse callosity, 

 and behind it a long transverse depression. Scutellum very large, 



