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DESCRIPTIONS OF THREE NEW SPECIES OF EUROPEAN 

 HEMIPTERA-HOMOPTERA. 



BY JOIIX SCOTT. 



Amongst the few species which I had put on one side as doubtful 

 or uudescribed species, collected by the Rev. T. A. Marshall in his 

 travels abroad, I have now the pleasure to describe the thi-ee following, 

 which I believe to be entirely new to science. My reason for this 

 belief is that they were returned to me from the Continent, whither 

 I had sent them for comparison with the collections and drawings of 

 the late Dr. Fieber, as entirely unknown. 



GXATHODUS EOSEUS. 



Reddish-pink. Eli/tra : anterior margin and nerves very pale 

 straw-yellow ; 1st apical cell next the anterior margin deep fuscous. 



Mead — croton testaceous-jellow, slightly reddish in the middle. Face reddish-pink, 

 with a narrow, longitudinal, yellowish line down each side of the centre, united 

 towards the lower margin ; frons broadly pale yellow. Antennce pale yellow ; 

 setcB brown. 



Thorax — ^ronotum pale testaceous-yellow ; disc more or less reddish-pink ; near the 

 anterior margin two small punctures placed one on each side of the centre. 

 Sctttellum pale testaceous-yellow, with a slight reddish-pink tinge next the base ; 

 basal angles with a dark triangular patch and two small punctures between 

 them above the transverse channel. Elytra reddish-pink ; anterior margin, as 

 far as the 1st nerve, very pale straw-yellow ; nerves fine, pale straw-yellow, 

 exterior margin of the 1st nerve next, and at, the apex narrowly margined with 

 dark fuscous ; apical cells pale ; 1st, next the anterior margin, dark fuscous ; 

 appendix dark fuscous. Wings somewhat fuscous, apex of the anterior margin 

 darker ; nerves blackish. Legs dusky i-eddish-pink. TibicB : 3rd pair fuscous 

 or brownish-red, base pale ; spines brown, paler next the base, each set in a 

 black puncture. Tarsi : 3rd pair pale fuscous. 



Abdomen : above dark pink, sides broadly, and a narrow dorsal line, pale yellow. 



Length, 1^ line. 



The only other European species known to me is the G.p?mcfatus, 

 Thunb., with which the above cannot be confounded, as that insect is 

 I)ale green and spotted with black. 



Two or three examples from Corsica. 



Thamnotettix rubeivenosa. 



"Whitish or yellowish-white with a reddish-tinge. Elijtm s])otted 

 with brown, somewhat similar to Deltocephalus sahulicola ; nerves, es- 

 pecinlly in the ? , briglit red. 



