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Abdomen dark brown, posterior margin of tlie sogracnts narrowly yellow ; genital 

 plate with a brown band across the middle of the upper side ; the tongs-like 

 processes (zangeu) viewed from the sides, not two-thirds the height of the pos- 

 terior margin of the genital plate ; apex black, broad, flat. 



5 . Yellow. Jlesonotum : central portion with two brown longitudinal lines on 

 side. -Leffs yellow ; thighs more or less broadly dark brown at the base. All the 

 other characters as in the $ . Length, 1 line (barely). 



Belongs to the same section as T. galii, througli the short, straight 

 radius, but distinct from all other species known to me in the forni 

 o£ the bifurcation of the cubitus. 



The only specimens I have seen were taken by the late J. G. Dale, 

 Esq. (after whom I have named the species) in October, 1868, in the 

 Isle of Wight, on thrift {Statice armeria), and also in November, 1871, 

 below dead plants — I suppose also of thrift. 



Lee: lilth May, 1S77. 



EEMAEKS ON SOME BEITISH EEMIPT]£RA-HETJEROPTERA. 



BY O. M. EEUTER. 



(Continued from 'page lly. 



Ntsius brunneus (Catal., 19, 3, and Saund., Synops., 1-12, 1). — 

 I cannot find any essential difference between this species and N. hel- 

 veticus, H.-Sch. (iV. onaculatus, Fieb. (Catal. 19, 2), is considered by 

 Mr. Saunders, I. c, p. 143, to be only a dark variety of the very 

 variable N. thymi, Wolff. I have not seen any specimen of N. macu- 

 latus.^i 



\^Nysius maciilatus, Fieb., may possibly proTC not to be distinct from iV. thymi, 

 Wolff ; this has yet to be decided, the smaller size, shorter and darker antennfe, and 

 black thighs of the former, are perceptible difPerenccs. Fieber pronounced the 

 English examples sent to him to be his species. — J. W. D.] 



Teeatocoeis doesalis (Catal., 26, 1) is T. antennatus, Boh. (as 

 Saunders in Synops., 260, 1). This species varies much in colour, being 

 more or less marked with black ; the ? is sometimes almost unicolorous 

 green. I have examined the types of Bohoman. 



Phytocoeis dubius (Catal., 27, 3) is recorded by Mr. Saunders 

 (Synops., 264, 3) as identical with Ph. populi, L., but to my mind it 

 is a distinct species, differing from Ph. populi in being somewhat 

 smaller, and in having the first joint of the antennae a little shorter 

 and mottled, not longitudinally streaked with black, as also in the pale 



