0() [August, 



One specimen, witliont locality, from Mr. Laweon's collection. 



Allied to A. depressus, from wliicli tlie different coloration, the 

 almost entire lateral margins of the thorax, the abbreviated lateral 

 carinfe, the longer anterior margin of the thorax, and the longer 

 antennae, at once distinguish it. 



Erom A. corticalis, the comparative lengths of the joints of the 

 antennae easily separate it. 



Wandle Eoad, Upper Tooting : 

 12th July, 1877. 



EEMAEKS ON SOME BEITISH HEMIPTERA-HETEROPTERA. 



BY O. M. EEUTER. 



(Continued from page 3-4y. 



LiTOsoMA viEiDiNEETis (Catal., 31, 1) is cited by Mr. Saunders 

 (Synops., 291, 3) as synonymous with the species described by him 

 under the name of Orthotylus prasinus. Fall. I am convinced that 

 this is so, Mr. Saunders having seen the typical specimens of Messrs. 

 Douglas and Scott, and I having received one specimen (?) from 

 Mr. Saunders ; but in examining this, I have found that the species of 

 the British authors is neither Oapsus viridinervis, Kirschbaum, nor 

 Phytocor is prasinus, Fallen. It differs from O. viridinervis, Kirschb., 

 in having the vertex (at least in the ? ) not marginate posteriorly, and 

 the antennso with the first joint three-fourths as long as the second ; 

 also, the elytra are brighter green. O. viridinervis, Kirschb., is, how- 

 ever, described by the following characters : " Schcitel mit flacher Quer- 

 vertiefung vor dcm etwas erhabenen Hintcrrand," and " Fiihlerglied 

 2 ctwa 4-mal, 3 etwa doppelt, 4 kaum so lang als 1 ;" and in the 

 synopsis of the species (p. 77), Kirschbaum says: " Fiihlerglied 2 fast 

 doppelt so gross, 1 mindestens halb so gross als 3."* But the afore- 

 said British species differs from this, and also from O. prasinus. Fall., 

 in having the " apical joint (of the antennae) not nearly half so long 

 as the third" {vide Saunders, I. c). Phytocoris ^rasmMS, Fall., of 

 which I possess a typical specimen, has, however, the fourth joint 

 about half as long as the third. Under the name of O. diaphanus, 

 Kirschb., I have received from Dr. Puton and Dr. Frey-Gessner a 

 species, which is in the structure of antennae very similar to O. prasinus, 

 Saund., nee Fall, (viridinervis, D. & S.), but this is much more finely, 

 and whitish, pubescent. The British species is probably to be regarded 

 as new, and I propose for it the name Orthotylus Scotti. 



* I found, ne.^r Forres, a species which seems to me to be the true viridinervit, Kirschb. — o. m. r. 



