294 [December, 



CORIZUS HYALINUS, Fab., AN ADDITION TO THE BRITISH 

 EEMIPTERA. 



BY EDWARD SAUNDERS, F.R.S., &c. 



We are iudebted to Mr. Alfred Beaumont for the addition of this 

 very distinct species to our list, a single male specimen having been 

 taken by him in a marshy place near Gosfield in Essex. C. hyalinus 

 is one of the most easily recognised species of the genus, and Mulsant 

 and Key formed a distinct subgenus for its reception, under the name 

 Colohatus. Stal went further and raised it to a distinct genus, which 

 he named Liorhyssus, distinguishing it from the other allied species 

 by the narrowly raised, impunctate, anterior margin of the pronotum. 

 I have, however, followed Dr. Puton in retaining it under the more 

 inclusive genus Corizus. 



Specifically it can be at once distinguished from the other members of the genus 

 by the long, very hyaline, membrane, the long apical joint of the antennae, which is 

 much longer than the third, by the form of the abdomen, which is slightly widened 

 and rounded posteriorly, whereas in our other species it is more or less acuminate,, 

 and by the coloration of the back, which, as in the other species, can be seen through 

 the transparent membrane. The pattern of this is paleon a black ground, and the apical 

 segment has a central pale parallel-sided line running up from the apex, with a black 

 vitta on each side of it, whereas in the other species the central portion is black, and 

 a pale line runs up on each side from the apex, bordering it. The connexivum in 

 Mr. Beaumont's specimen is marked with large black spots, and the two black vittse 

 on the terminal segment look as if they were connecting links to complete the con- 

 tinuity of the series. 



I can iiud no record of the capture of this species from any 

 locality so far north as England. Its normal distribution seems to be 

 the Mediterranean region and the south of Europe. 



St. Ann's, Woking : 



November 5th, 1903. 



COCCID^ IN GLOUCESTERSHIRE. 

 BY C1IAELE8 J. WATKINS, F.E.S. 



Owing to the valued aid of my friend Mr. iiobert Newstead, 

 A.L.S., I am able to give a List of some of the Scale Insects to be 

 found in a district of the Cotteswolds, and within a radius of ten miles 

 from the town of Painswick, including the well-wooded portions of 

 Cranham, Great Witcombe and Birdlip, and at an elevation of from 

 200 to 800 feet above sea level ; the hill tops and slopes being of 

 Oolitic formation resting on the Liassic clays forming the bottom of 

 the valleys. 



