1899.J 155 



" Thorace . . . nitido," whereas in my specimens the surface of 

 the thorax is finely rugulose, and scai'cely shining, but in other 

 respects his description so exactly fits my specimens in both sexes 

 that I have little doubt as to their identity. My attention was re- 

 called during the last few days to this species by a ^J and ? sent to 

 me for identification by Miss E. Thoyts, of Sulhampstead Park, near 

 Reading, which agree exactly with my Worthing specimens, and are 

 very easily separable at a glance from nana by the wide, snow-white, 

 bands of the abdomen. 



<J . Third joint of antennae rather longer in proportion to the 4th than in 

 nana, K. ; thorax rather more remotely punctured on the disc, and the rugulosity 

 of the surface slightly finer; abdomen duller and more closely punctured, the 

 depressed apical margins exceedingly closely and finely punctured, whereas in nana 

 they are shining and finely alutaceous ; 2nd, 3rd, and 4th, segments with a rather 

 broad band of white hairs widely interrupted on the 2nd. 



? . This sex differs from nana in the browner tint of the hairs of the thorax, 

 the duller abdomen, with dull, densely punctured, apical depressions, and wide, 

 snow-white, lateral fringes on the 2nd and 3rd segments, and an entire fringe on the 

 4th ; 5th clothed with whitish hairs, intermixed with golden at the apex, where they 

 form a dense fimbria ; segments beneath punctured, with long apical fringes. 



Long., 7 — 8 mm. 



"Worthing, June, 1874, 1 ? , and again in June, 1888, when I 

 caught 3 ^ and 3 $ near the sea coast to the west of the town. Sul- 

 hampstead, near Reading, Miss E. Thoyts, June, 1899. 



St. Ann's, Woking : 



June 17th, 1899. 



^THUS FLAVICORNIS, Fab.: A GENUS AND SPECIES NEW TO 

 THE LIST OF BRITISH HEMIPTERA. 



BY EDWARD SAUNDERS, F.L.S. 



A single specimen of this important addition to our fauna was 

 found by Mr. W. Holland, of Oxford, at Freshwater, Isle of Wight, 

 in July, 1895 ; unfortunately, a more exact locality was not recorded, 

 as Mr. Holland was at the time collecting Goleoptera, in fact searching 

 for Sarpalus tenebrosics, and did not notice that he had taken anything 

 unusual ; lately he was trying to name his captures in this family, 

 and failed to be able to make this one agree with any of our described 

 species, he, therefore, referred it to me, and I am very glad to have 

 this opportunity of bringing it forward in our Magazine. Puton, in 

 his Synopsis des Hemipteres Heteropteres de Prance, says that it is 

 common in the sand of the Dunes all along the shore, and mentions 



